Who Killed Tom Thomson?: The Truth about the Murder of One of the 20th Century’s Most Famous Artists

It’s the most enduring mystery in Canadian art: how did famed landscape painter Tom Thomson die? The past century has seen a flood of books, articles, and documentaries speculating – without reaching a definitive determination ... Read More »

September 10, 2018 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Infinite Blue

By Darren Groth; Simon Groth

Water imagery abounds in Darren and Simon Groth’s Infinite Blue. The two brothers, writing as a team, weave a neighbourhood flood, an important bathtub chat, and a dripping shower into a story that sees water ... Read More »

September 10, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Tree Musketeers

By Norma Charles

Tree Musketeers, a middle-grade novel by accomplished West Coast writer Norma Charles (Runner: Harry Jerome, World’s Fastest Man), is a universal fish-out-of-water story. Jeanie is new at school, having just moved to Van City from ... Read More »

September 7, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Learning to Breathe

By Janice Lynn Mather

In her debut young-adult novel, Janice Lynn Mather introduces readers to Indira May Ferguson – Indy for short – who’s leaving the Bahamian village of Mariner’s Cay to live with her uncle, aunt, and cousin ... Read More »

September 6, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Almost Invisible

By Maureen Garvie

There are plenty of children’s books that explore the fantasy of living in a public space – for example, Corduroy, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, or The Invention of Hugo Cabret. ... Read More »

September 6, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

No Good Brother

By Tyler Keevil

Tyler Keevil writes stories about men doing manly things. In this, his most immediate and significant literary predecessor is Hemingway, but Keevil also stakes out ground among a group of younger Canadian writers – Kevin ... Read More »

September 6, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Sealskin

By Tyler Keevil

September 6, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Threads

By Torill Kove

Separation is the first anxiety most of us experience; infants feel it even when their parent is in the same room. Whether it be the first day of school, a breakup, or even a death, ... Read More »

September 5, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

I’m Glad That You’re Happy

By Nahid Kazemi

Separation is the first anxiety most of us experience; infants feel it even when their parent is in the same room. Whether it be the first day of school, a breakup, or even a death, ... Read More »

September 5, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

Sleep, Sheep!

By Guillaume Perreault (ill.); Kerry Lyn Sparrow

Duncan is a master of endless delays, at least when it comes to sleeping. While he relishes the routine leading up to bedtime – the snacks, the taste of bubble-gum toothpaste – sleeping itself is ... Read More »

September 5, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

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