The Disappearing Boy

Two new middle-grade novels cover a lot of ground, both literally and figuratively. Neil, the 13-year-old protagonist of The Disappearing Boy, moves from Vancouver to Ottawa, then runs away to Saint John, New Brunswick. Meanwhile, ... Read More »

November 6, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race

By Naben Ruthnum

In her newest book, St. Thomas University journalism professor and former Globe and Mail columnist Jan Wong attempts to recreate the success of travelogue memoirs like Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love – taking herself, along ... Read More »

November 6, 2017 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Apron Strings: Navigating Food and Family in France, Italy, and China

By Jan Wong

November 6, 2017 | Filed under: Food & Drink

The Cat Came Back

By Cordell Barker

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

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