The Cat Came Back

This fall, publisher Firefly is mining the National Film Board for source material. Two Oscar-nominated NFB animated short films are repurposed for a new audience as the original filmmakers serve as authors, reusing and reformatting ... Read More »

November 6, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts

By Torill Kove

November 6, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

Sports and Pastimes

By Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard; Aimee Wall (trans.)

A lot has been written about millennials, a generation that has supposedly forsaken home ownership, careerism, and casual sex in favour of social media and bespoke underwear. A cohort of entitled, lazy, disinterested narcissists who ... Read More »

November 6, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Original Face

By Guillaume Morissette

November 6, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Smoot: A Rebellious Shadow

By Michelle Cuevas; Sydney Smith (ill.)

Expectations are high for Canadian illustrators Jon Klassen and Sydney Smith. Both won Governor General’s Literary Awards for their first picture books, have appeared multiple times on the New York Times bestseller lists, and are ... Read More »

November 6, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse

By Jon Klassen (ill.); Mac Barnett

November 6, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

Lightfoot

By Nicholas Jennings

How does a biographer say something new and insightful about well-known public figures who have already had large dollops of ink spilled on their behalf? Authors David Yaffe and Nicholas Jennings take distinctly different approaches ... Read More »

November 6, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Ghost Warning

By Kara Stanley

Seventeen-year-old Lou James recalls her journalist father saying to her in a moment of reflection, “Maybe there is no point in living or dying, other than the overarching point that we are biological organisms trying ... Read More »

October 31, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Montreal Noir

By Jacques Filippi (ed.); John McFetridge (ed.)

There is a particular sensibility associated with the noir genre in both film and literature. Steeped in shadow and gloom, with origins in German expressionism, the noir temperament is saturated in booze, sex, and sin. ... Read More »

October 31, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Recipe for Hate

By Warren Kinsella

While Recipe for Hate is the first young adult novel from Toronto polymath Warren Kinsella (whose resumé includes lawyer, writer, musician, consultant, and commentator), it reads like a culmination of certain aspects of his life ... Read More »

October 31, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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