BOOK REVIEWS

Hester in Sunlight

Just shy of 175 years ago, Hester Prynne secured a primo spot in literary history. Arguably, thanks to school curricula and films such as Easy A, Hester remains a familiar name. In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne describes ... Read More »

December 4, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Fledgling: The Keeper’s Records of Revolution

By S.K. Ali

Raisa Freelund, daughter of the Chief Guardian of Upper Earth, is not naive enough to think she lives in a utopia. Her scalplink floods her mind with news of imminent threats of attack from Lower ... Read More »

December 4, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

I Wonder About Worlds: Discovering Planets and Exoplanets

By James Gladstone and Yaara Eshet (ill.)

I Wonder About Worlds: Discovering Planets and Exoplanets combines storytelling and science in a picture book that encourages re-reading. Author James Gladstone balances a lyrical exploration of space – both of our own solar system ... Read More »

December 4, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Votive

By Annick MacAskill

Annick MacAskill’s Votive, the anticipated follow-up to her 2022 Governor General’s Award–winning collection Shadow Blight, combines themes of intimacy, privacy, eros, and queerness, while the transgressive and the religious infuse this collection. Of course, votive ... Read More »

November 27, 2024 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

I Don’t Do Disability and Other Lies I’ve Told Myself

By Adelle Purdham

The lifelong process of learning, of constantly weaving the tapestry of who you are and who you will be, is never without its challenges. That being said, it’s often easier than the process of unlearning ... Read More »

November 27, 2024 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Genocide

By Jane Springer and Santiago Solís (ill.)

The newly revised and expanded Genocide, a nonfiction book for young adults, was first published in 2006. The book traces the history of genocides around the world (seven of which are ongoing), documenting the specific ... Read More »

November 27, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

Cave-In

By Pam Withers

In Pam Withers’s eco-adventure novel Cave-In, 16-year-old Hudson Greer dreams of becoming world-famous for discovering a passageway between two cave systems, nicknamed the Castle and the Dungeon. He also plans to beat his ex-caving partner ... Read More »

November 20, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

Coup de Grâce

By Sofia Ajram

“The atmosphere is smoky grey. Dark. Penumbra almost-dusk, but stripped of any colour,” writes Sofia Ajram in an early description of an endless, eldritch subway station. “Seemingly small, it unravels into a boundless labyrinth with ... Read More »

November 13, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Barnaby Unboxed!

By The Fan Brothers

Four years after the release of The Barnabus Project, the Fan Brothers have returned with another look into the fantastical and slightly dystopian world of Perfect Pets, an underground factory that produces genetically engineered pets. ... Read More »

November 13, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ No Credit River

By Zoe Whittall

When I begin reading Zoe Whittall’s No Credit River, I am on a train. I usually read on the train. As I lean in to highlight certain lines – the pages rest on the foldable ... Read More »

November 6, 2024 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Poetry, Reviews

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