A Calendar of Reckoning

Dave Margoshes’s sixth volume of poetry confirms him as a poet who translates life experiences into sensitive commentaries on the deep structures of humanity. In this instance, his focus is on family and death. Coupled ... Read More »

April 9, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Bloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli

By Julie Morstad (ill.); Kyo Maclear

Unique women find their voices and overcome naysayers in two picture-book biographies that follow their subjects from childhood to middle age. In Walking in the City with Jane, author Susan Hughes introduces us to a ... Read More »

April 9, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

Walking in the City with Jane: A Story of Jane Jacobs

By Susan Hughes; Valérie Boivin (ill.)

April 9, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ East and West

By Laura Ritland

The conjunction in the title of Laura Ritland’s exceptional debut testifies to the poet’s comfort with amplitude. Ritland eschews the forced decision in “east or west” in favour of inclusion and breadth. Accordingly, the poems ... Read More »

April 5, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry

Elisapee and Her Baby Seagull

By Charlene Chua (ill.); Nancy Mike

Elisapee, a young Inuit girl, lives with her parents in a quaint seaside house. In the summer, her father often brings home baby birds on his boat, and one day he brings home a baby ... Read More »

April 5, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Sound of Freedom

By Kathy Kacer

The Sound of Freedom is the story of Anna Hirsch, a 12-year-old Jewish girl in Krakow, Poland. The book begins in 1936. Anna, her friends, and family are worried about the rise of Hitler and ... Read More »

April 2, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ I left nothing inside on purpose

By Stevie Howell

An extended epigraph to Stevie Howell’s second collection cites a “note in the window of a Mercedes,” from which the book takes its title: “Do not smash glass. I left nothing inside on purpose.” While ... Read More »

April 2, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry

Krista Kim-Bap

By Angela Ahn

Navigating the ups and downs of friendship is never easy – particularly when on the cusp of adolescence. Two debut novels give voice to the experiences of girls growing apart from their BFFs. And both ... Read More »

March 29, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Running Through Sprinklers

By Michelle Kim

March 29, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ The Sparrow: Selected Poems

By A.F. Moritz

The opening poem in this new volume of selected work by A.F. Moritz claims, “I am at an age when words should be finished.” The Sparrow testifies to the fact that this is simply not ... Read More »

March 28, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry

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