The Case of Windy Lake

Most mysteries featuring kid detectives – Nate the Great, Cam Jansen, the Boxcar Children, the Bobbsey Twins, and Harriet M. Welsch (better known as Harriet the Spy) – default to a white protagonist or a ... Read More »

February 21, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Center of the Universe

By Ria Voros

Grace Carter shares a name with her mother and grandmother, but the three generations of women have little else in common. Or so high-school student Grace thinks at the beginning of the latest novel by ... Read More »

February 14, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Two Firsts: Bertha Wilson and Claire L’Heureux-Dubé at the Supreme Court of Canada

By Constance Backhouse

As we navigate feminism’s fourth wave, it can be easy to forget how we got here. The struggles of feminisms past have a lot to teach us about the tactics women marshalled to face down ... Read More »

February 14, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Ladies, Upstairs!: My Life in Politics and After

By Monique Bégin

February 14, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Voice: Adam Pottle on Writing with Deafness

By Adam Pottle

What does it mean to create? And how can one’s circumstances constrain or liberate creativity? Two Canadian academics and authors – Saskatoon’s Adam Pottle and Toronto’s Adrian McKerracher – sensitively and distinctively tackle these questions ... Read More »

February 11, 2019 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ What It Means to Write: Creativity and Metaphor

By Adrian McKerracher

February 11, 2019 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Otto and Pio

By Marianne Dubuc

A squirrel. His doorstep. A mysterious green ball. A creature emerging from that ball. So begins Otto and Pio, a charming and quirky story of unexpected friendship from Montreal-based picture-book creator Marianne Dubuc (Up the ... Read More »

February 11, 2019 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Manuelito: A Graphic Novel

By Elisa Amado and Abraham Urias (ill.)

Three new graphic novels tell difficult stories of survival, highlighting the struggles many teens face in battling discrimination, racism, and political violence. In each book, home is shown to be of critical importance, while at ... Read More »

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