★ The Antlered Ship

By Dashka Slater; Eric Fan (ill.); Terry Fan (ill.)

Researchers at the University of Toronto recently reported that children’s books with human characters have a greater moral impact on young people than books with anthropomorphic protagonists. The subjects of the study were read stories ... Read More »

November 30, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Black Peacock

By Rachel Manley

Rachel Manley has made a career out of writing about her illustrious Jamaican family, including her prime-minister father. Best known for her 1997 Governor General’s Literary Award–winning memoir, Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood, each ... Read More »

November 29, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Escape from Syria

By Jackie Roche (ill.); Mike Freiheit (ill.); Samya Kullab

In 2014, a phrase was anonymously spray-painted on a wall in Homs, Syria: “When I leave, be sure I tried everything in my power to stay.” This poignant graffiti reverberates throughout Escape from Syria, a ... Read More »

November 27, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

Cop House

By Sam Shelstad

Toronto author Sam Shelstad possesses the ability to charm readers with his vivacity, even – perhaps especially – when it comes to characters or situations that might be considered a tad unsavory. The bulk of ... Read More »

November 27, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Munro vs. the Coyote

By Darren Groth

No one expected 16-year-old Munro Maddux to recover overnight from the death of his younger sister, Evie, a special-needs child. But they also didn’t expect the angry outbursts, the mysterious chest pains, and the goading ... Read More »

November 20, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Two Roads Home

By Daniel Griffin

Set in 1993, Victoria writer Daniel Griffin’s debut novel follows a group of environmental activists on Vancouver Island who set off an explosion at a supposedly unmanned logging warehouse. The bombing badly injures a worker ... Read More »

November 20, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Man Who Knew Everything: The Strange Life of Athanasius Kircher

By Marilee Peters; Roxanna Bikadoroff (ill.)

In the genre of children’s non-fiction about significant inventors, discoverers, pioneers, and scientists, the current trend lies in correcting the record and broadening the perception of history by highlighting figures who don’t fit the dead-white-male ... Read More »

November 20, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Long Ride Yellow

By Martin West

Nonni likes causing her sex partners pain. She’s also off her psych meds. And she’s being controlled by aliens. When her plaything, Daniel, turns up as a strangled corpse, mayhem ensues. In his absorbing debut ... Read More »

November 20, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Scion of the Fox: The Realms of Ancient, Book 1

By S.M. Beiko

Foxes, rabbits, deer, seals, and owls. These are the ancient, founding “families” of the human-spirit-animal hybrids that populate the rich mythology of S.M. Beiko’s new fantasy saga. Scion of the Fox is the first of ... Read More »

November 20, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Uncertain Weights and Measures

By Jocelyn Parr

Fittingly for a novel set in late 1920s Russia, Jocelyn Parr’s Uncertain Weights and Measures is obsessed with dialectics: between the state and the individual; between the head and the heart; and between lovers in ... Read More »

November 20, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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