The Puffin Problem

Little ones love a lively scene, and there’s plenty for them to look at in the rollicking illustrations that accompany Cara Kansala’s spirited poems in All Around the Circle. Kansala and her long-time artistic collaborator ... Read More »

July 28, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation

By Monique Gray Smith

“Reconciliation begins with you,” says Chief Dr. Robert Joseph of the Gwawaenuk First Nation in Monique Gray Smith’s formidably executed new book, Speaking Our Truth. This simple maxim reinforces the purpose of the titular journey ... Read More »

July 25, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Pikiq

By Yayo; Talleen Hacikyan (trans.)

Tropical birds fly through a snowy forest, or perch in a maze of caribou antlers; a frog riding on a fish pulls a sled containing a bonsai tree; a boy builds a kayak from the ... Read More »

July 25, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Three-Tiered Pastel Dream

By Lesley Trites

There’s a claustrophobic and secretive quality to Montreal writer Lesley Trites’s debut, a book of short stories that illuminates the lives of girls and women. In the first story, “Pepto-Bismol Pink,” a woman sleeps with ... Read More »

July 24, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Everything Is Awful And You’re A Terrible Person

By Daniel Zomparelli

The debut collection of fiction from poet and editor Daniel Zomparelli isn’t a daring adventure into a new genre for the author. Rather, it’s a natural complement to the niche he has created with his ... Read More »

July 24, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Readopolis

By Bertrand Laverdure; Oana Avasilichioaei (trans.)

If English Canada ever wants to break out of the literary doldrums in which it all too frequenly finds itself mired, it would do well to stop casting its eyes wistfully back at a nostalgic ... Read More »

July 24, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Other Houses

By Kate Cayley

Roo Borson’s latest poetry collection begins in Rome with an ekphrastic view of a 2,000-year-old fresco commissioned by Livia, wife of Augustus Caesar. The image symbolizes the thematic question of Borson’s book: in what ways ... Read More »

July 24, 2017 | Filed under: Poetry

Cardinal in the Eastern White Cedar

By Roo Borson

July 24, 2017 | Filed under: Poetry

The Only Child

By Andrew Pyper

Those who think the horror genre is dying may have to reassess after reading Andrew Pyper’s latest work. The Toronto writer’s eighth novel, a neo-gothic adventure with more blood-feeding than a vampire weekend, comes complete ... Read More »

July 20, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Agony of Bun O’Keefe

By Heather Smith

When an author creates a character who is naive for their age, who has been sheltered from the world at large, and is unfamiliar with common idioms or pop-culture references, there’s a risk that character ... Read More »

July 17, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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