BOOK REVIEWS

★ Princess Charming

When you’re a princess, it can be hard to live up to everyone’s high expectations. This is doubly true when your brother happens to be Prince Charming. Such is the premise at the heart of ... Read More »

May 18, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Blue Portugal and Other Essays

By Theresa Kishkan

Early in Tanis MacDonald’s new essay collection, Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female, the author asserts that stories about walking have largely been the domain of a certain kind of writer on a certain kind ... Read More »

May 17, 2022 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female

By Tanis MacDonald

May 17, 2022 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

Rabbit Chase

By Elizabeth LaPensée and KC Oster (ill.); Aarin Dokum (trans.)

Rabbit Chase is a graphic novel written by Anishinaabe, Métis, and Irish author Elizabeth LaPensée, with art by Ojibwe-Anishinaabe illustrator KC Oster, that blends Anishinaabe culture with Alice in Wonderland to create an exciting new ... Read More »

May 16, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Mansions of the Moon

By Shyam Selvadurai

After nearly a decade, bestselling author of Funny Boy and The Hungry Ghosts Shyam Selvadurai returns with a sweeping new novel set in ancient India. It introduces readers to Siddhartha Gotama – the man who ... Read More »

May 11, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Lizzy and the Cloud

By The Fan Brothers

Every time Governor General’s Literary Award–winning brothers Eric Fan and Terry Fan (of The Barnabus Project) join forces for a picture-book collaboration, magic happens. Their latest, Lizzy and the Cloud, is no exception. Lizzy, a ... Read More »

May 11, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Blood Scion

By Deborah Falaye

On the heels of Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone and Natasha Bowen’s Skin of the Sea comes a new foray into the epic world of Yoruba gods and monsters. Deborah Falaye’s young adult ... Read More »

May 9, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ This Is How We Love

By Lisa Moore

Lisa Moore’s latest novel contains all the hallmarks that fans of the St. John’s author have come to expect: tightly constructed chapters that paint vivid images despite their almost minimalist prose; dialogue and turns of ... Read More »

May 4, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Another Squiggly Story

By Andrew Larsen and Mike Lowery (ill.)

The 2016 picture book A Squiggly Story, by Toronto author Andrew Larsen and Atlanta, Georgia, illustrator Mike Lowery, was a charming and surprisingly in-depth exploration of how creativity interacts with the mechanics of storytelling. ... Read More »

May 4, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Flying, Falling, Catching: An Unlikely Story of Finding Freedom

By Henri J. M. Nouwen and Carolyn Whitney-Brown

Five years before his fatal heart attack in 1996, Dutch theologian, psychologist, and teacher Henri Nouwen’s outlook on life was changed by a trapeze act high up in a circus tent. For Nouwen, the ... Read More »

May 3, 2022 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

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