Death Threat

Right from its slim hardcover format – reminiscent of French-language comic albums and seldom seen in English comics – it’s clear Vivek Shraya and Ness Lee’s Death Threat is no ordinary graphic novel. Both writer ... Read More »

May 23, 2019 | Filed under: Graphica

Mistakes to Run With

By Yasuko Thanh

In the first two pages of her new memoir, Yasuko Thanh delivers a fully formed portrait of an adolescence lived in a world of sheer contrasts. By the time she is 12 years old, Thanh ... Read More »

May 16, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Papergirl

By Melinda McCracken with Penelope Jackson

On May 15, 1919, some 30,000 workers in Winnipeg walked off the job to protest poor living wages and demand collective bargaining. Two new middle-grade novels bring the general strike, a watershed event, to light ... Read More »

May 15, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

City on Strike

By Harriet Zaidman

May 15, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

This One Because of the Dead

By Laure Baudot

Toronto authors Zalika Reid-Benta and Laure Baudot take markedly different approaches to their debut collections of short fiction. Reid-Benta’s book, Frying Plantain, is a coming-of-age sequence that takes an honest and penetrating look at the ... Read More »

May 13, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Frying Plantain

By Zalika Reid-Benta

May 13, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Meteorites

By Julie Paul

Absences recur throughout the 14 stories in Victoria author Julie Paul’s third collection. From the opening piece, about a man on vacation in Hawaii being haunted by the ghost of his dead father, to the ... Read More »

May 9, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

The Empress of Idaho

By Todd Babiak

It’s the long, hot summer of 1989 and 14-year-old Adam Lisinski – high-school football star, loyal friend to Simon, good son to his single mom, Helen – is living on the wrong side of the ... Read More »

May 9, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Mostly True Story of Pudding Tat, Adventuring Cat

By Caroline Adderson; Stacy Innerst (ill.)

In her latest middle-grade novel, Caroline Adderson blends the right mix of history and fiction while crafting a story of cooperation, resilience, and bravery. Pudding Tat, named for the special dessert Farmer Willoughby brought to ... Read More »

May 7, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

We Contain Multitudes

By Sarah Henstra

Jonathan Hopkirk and Adam Kurlansky couldn’t be more different. Jonathan likes Walt Whitman and Prince; Adam likes football. Jonathan likes vintage clothes; Adam, apparently, likes fist fights. Paired up for a letter-writing assignment in English, ... Read More »

May 7, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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