BOOK REVIEWS

Cold

Mariko Tamaki’s Cold begins as a murder mystery, but from the moment Todd’s ghost lays eyes upon his own body, he remembers being bullied by his classmates and the story’s melancholic undercurrent becomes clear. Despite ... Read More »

May 2, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust

By Miriam Libicki and David Schaffer; Gilad Seliktar and Nico and Rolf Kamp; Barbara Yelin and Emmie Arbel; Charlotte Schallié (ed.)

Never forget. This is the rallying cry of the Holocaust remembrance movement. Yet Holocaust denial is widespread and global anti-Semitism is on the rise. There is an epidemic of both ignorance and disinformation about the ... Read More »

April 27, 2022 | Filed under: Graphica, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Wrong Side of the Court

By H.N. Khan

Fawad Chaudhry has one dream in life: to make it to the NBA. But before that can happen, he needs his mother to let him try out for the school basketball team. The 15-year-old admits ... Read More »

April 27, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ The Quiet in Me

By Patrick Lane and Lorna Crozier (intro.)

Editing Patrick Lane’s final book of poetry must have been difficult for his wife, poet Lorna Crozier, but as she says in the introduction, “I turned the editing into a conversation, the final dialogue about ... Read More »

April 26, 2022 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Pink Is for Everybody!

By Ella Russell and Udayana Lugo (ill.)

Rainy days are a drag, especially when you’re stuck inside with nothing to do except listen to the pitter-patter on the window. This is the gloomy circumstance in which a group of wonderfully diverse friends ... Read More »

April 25, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Peanut Butter and Chaos: The Mythic Adventures of Samuel Templeton

By Anita Daher

Peanut Butter and Chaos is the first entry in Anita Daher’s new middle-grade fantasy series, The Mythic Adventures of Samuel Templeton, where real science meets imagination. Sam Templeton has been brought up by his distracted ... Read More »

April 20, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

By Chelsea Vowel

The debut collection of short stories from Métis writer Chelsea Vowel is a gut renovation of the science-fiction genre that liberates dystopian and post-apocalyptic ideas from tired tropes to explore radical possibilities for Indigenous resilience. ... Read More »

April 20, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Fugue with Bedbug

By Anne-Marie Turza

Anne-Marie Turza’s second collection with House of Anansi Press is a straight up weird book. But you will delight in its weirdness. Surreal at its core, the collection uses its musicality to ease its reader ... Read More »

April 20, 2022 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

I Love You More

By Emil Sher and Barbara Reid (ill.)

In I Love You More, author and playwright Emil Sher has penned a beautiful book that effortlessly teaches early literacy and reinforces affection toward children. Each page is a fresh window into a child’s life ... Read More »

April 18, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ The Summer Between Us

By Andre Fenton

Andre Fenton has delivered a beautifully crafted coming-of-age story in his newest novel, The Summer Between Us. Eighteen-year-old Adrian Carter struggles as he prepares to finish high school and tries to find his place ... Read More »

April 13, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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