BOOK REVIEWS

★ Every Little Bit Olive Tran

Joyful and celebratory seem like odd descriptors for a book about racism, but author Phuong Truong and artist Christine Wei manage this delicate balance rather deftly in Every Little Bit Olive Tran. The story centres ... Read More »

February 26, 2025 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Miss Matty

By Edeet Ravel

Fran was born to be an actress. After all, she has always been acting in front of everyone, even her best friend Rita – pretending her family isn’t so poor that they can’t afford store-bought ... Read More »

February 19, 2025 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Do Not Turn the Page!

By Jane Blondie and Marcus Cutler (ill.)

Charlie, the narrator of Jane Blondie’s frame-breaking picture book, doesn’t want his readers to turn the book’s pages for self-interested reasons. He knows that every page turned gets him closer to that part of the ... Read More »

February 12, 2025 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Chasing Shadows: Cyber Espionage, Subversion, and the Global Fight for Democracy

By Ronald J. Deibert

“If you own a device and connect to a cellular service anywhere in the world, you’re trackable.” That’s the sobering assessment of Ronald J. Deibert, someone who knows whereof he speaks. As the founder and ... Read More »

February 5, 2025 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

I Am Métis

By Karen Hourie Ellefson and Leah Dorion (ill.)

Based on Métis author and former teacher Karen Hourie Ellefson’s own experiences growing up, I Am Métis is a picture book closely tied to the perspective of its blue-eyed, white-passing narrator. After classmates ridicule her ... Read More »

February 5, 2025 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Playing Hard: A Life and Death in Games, Sports, and Play

By Peter Unwin

During his final days, Peter Unwin’s father talked a great deal about sports. Through an oxygen mask, one eye blind from a stroke, he told stories about “the buffoonery of men, brave but foolish men ... Read More »

January 29, 2025 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews, Sports, Health & Self-help

How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty

By Bonny Reichert

“We are starving.” It’s a striking turn of phrase to begin a memoir about food and family and survival from Nazi death camps for what is a simple lament about a late lunch during a ... Read More »

January 22, 2025 | Filed under: Food & Drink, Memoir & Biography

Heliotropia

By Manahil Bandukwala

Manahil Bandukwala’s second collection of poems, Heliotropia, shares its name with a unisex perfume by Swedish luxury brand Byredo. Like the scent’s floral note of jasmine, a flower that opens at night, the works in ... Read More »

December 11, 2024 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

The Shape of Lost Things

By Sarah Everett

Four years ago, 12-year-old Skye’s universe shattered. Her older brother, Finn, was kidnapped by their father and has been missing ever since. In Finn’s absence, Skye is forced to celebrate his “MIA” birthdays with her ... Read More »

December 11, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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