BOOK REVIEWS

Finding Edward

Sheila Murray’s debut novel, Finding Edward, chronicles the story of Cyril Rowntree, a twentysomething international student who arrives in Toronto from a small village in Jamaica heavy with responsibility and grief from the loss of ... Read More »

June 29, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ I’s the B’y: The Beloved Folk Song

By Lauren Soloy (ill.)

I’s the B’y is an exuberant celebration of Newfoundland culture lovingly presented in picture-book form. It’s based on the well-worn folk song that has long been identified with the island’s traditional music and fishing heritage. ... Read More »

June 29, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

kā-āciwīkicik/The Move

By Doris George and Don K. Philpot; Alyssa Koski (ill.)

kā-āciwīkicik/The Move is a moving story inspired by the forced relocation of the Chemawawin Cree Nation to Easterville, Manitoba, told in both Cree and English by Cree educators Doris George and Don K. Philpot. Displaced ... Read More »

June 27, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ TJ Powar Has Something to Prove

By Jesmeen Kaur Deo

TJ Powar is an incredibly brave young woman, and just as stubborn. Not many high schoolers, especially popular girls like TJ, would dare to challenge social norms by embracing their hairiness simply to make a ... Read More »

June 22, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Woman, Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay

By Merilyn Simonds

Anyone who has studied Canadian history has likely seen a photograph of Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, even if unknowingly. She’s crouching in the background in one of the most famous images of the infant Dionne ... Read More »

June 21, 2022 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

★ A Day for Sandcastles

By JonArno Lawson and Qin Leng (ill.)

A Day for Sandcastles continues the happy collaboration between JonArno Lawson and illustrator Qin Leng that began with last year’s Over the Shop. Like its predecessor, A Day for Sandcastles is a wordless picture book, ... Read More »

June 20, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf

By Sina Queyras

Each chapter of Sina Queyras’s Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf opens by revisiting the corresponding chapter of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. For example: But, you may say, we asked you to speak about ... Read More »

June 15, 2022 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ The Global Ocean

By Rochelle Strauss and Natasha Donovan (ill.)

The Global Ocean is the latest title in the Citizen Kid series, a companion to One Well: The Story of Water on Earth. In 32 pages, award-winning children’s book author Rochelle Strauss skilfully employs effective ... Read More »

June 14, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

Let the Monster Out

By Chad Lucas

Feeling like a fish out of water is a daunting yet all-too-familiar experience, whether you’re the new Black kid that just moved into a predominantly white town or the child who’s grown up suspecting ... Read More »

June 13, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Longbow, the Schooner and the Violin: Wood and Human Achievement

By Marq de Villiers

Through the vision of journalist and author Marq de Villiers, you can see the forest for the trees. The natural history of forests and the complex interrelationship between humanity, trees, and wood are the focus ... Read More »

June 8, 2022 | Filed under: Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

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