March 8, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Thomas Wharton’s ambitious new novel, The Book of Rain, begins with a tech blackout on an ordinary Tuesday afternoon. The confused city folk take it as it comes, a break from the monotony of ... Read More »
Throughout history, female artists have frequently been overlooked and undervalued. A pair of new biographical picture books paint vivid portraits of two women who defied societal expectations and overcame many challenges to pursue their art. ... Read More »
March 8, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
Throughout history, female artists have frequently been overlooked and undervalued. A pair of new biographical picture books paint vivid portraits of two women who defied societal expectations and overcame many challenges to pursue their art. ... Read More »
March 8, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
Is immortality pleasant? Certainly not for some of the Chinese mythological creatures in Lindsay Wong’s new collection of 13 short stories, including the diao si gui (Red-Tongued Ghosts) who face ghost hunters and psychics after ... Read More »
March 1, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews
Seventeen-year-old Daisy Odlin can see ghosts. Like moths to a flame, spirits of the dead gravitate toward misery – something Daisy has in constant supply. Dealing with the burden of her psychic abilities, a simultaneously ... Read More »
March 1, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Akim Aliu: Dreamer is a moving graphic novel memoir by former pro hockey player Akim Aliu, written with Greg Anderson Elysée. After falling in love with skating, Aliu teaches himself how to skate and dreams ... Read More »
February 22, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books
The rise of sea levels and global temperatures along with shrinking glaciers and extreme weather events has made it impossible to deny climate change. As attempts to reduce our carbon footprint gain traction, the idea ... Read More »
February 20, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
Reading two novels set in Soviet Europe in tandem, recurrent questions echo between two distinct fictional worlds. Must the past be understood in order to move forward? And in what ways does it define our ... Read More »
February 15, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
Reading two novels set in Soviet Europe in tandem, recurrent questions echo between two distinct fictional worlds. Must the past be understood in order to move forward? And in what ways does it define our ... Read More »
February 15, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Like a Hurricane by award-winning Montreal author and elementary school teacher Jonathan Bécotte, and translated by Jonathan Kaplansky, is a novel in verse about a young teen struggling to reveal his true self to friends ... Read More »
February 15, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books