BOOK REVIEWS

Barnaby Unboxed!

Four years after the release of The Barnabus Project, the Fan Brothers have returned with another look into the fantastical and slightly dystopian world of Perfect Pets, an underground factory that produces genetically engineered pets. ... Read More »

November 13, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ No Credit River

By Zoe Whittall

When I begin reading Zoe Whittall’s No Credit River, I am on a train. I usually read on the train. As I lean in to highlight certain lines – the pages rest on the foldable ... Read More »

November 6, 2024 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Poetry, Reviews

★ A Constellation of Minor Bears

By Jen Ferguson

In award-winning author Jen Ferguson’s latest contemporary young-adult novel, long-time best friends Molly Norris-Norquay and Tray Lambert depart from their hometown of Edmonton shortly after Molly’s high school graduation. Their destination: the U.S.-Mexico border, to ... Read More »

November 6, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Subterrane

By Valérie Bah

Representation in the arts isn’t simply a matter of augmenting narratives that have been neglected. Within any identity category, there are bound to be fractures – nuances and contradictions that defy easy categorization. Must efforts ... Read More »

October 30, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ There’s a Ghost in the Garden

By Kyo Maclear and Katty Maurey (ill.)

No typical, unsettling ghosts haunt Vicky Metcalf Award–winning author Kyo Maclear’s latest picture book. The subtle spirit roaming throughout There’s a Ghost in the Garden gently speaks to the enduring nature of memory. The child ... Read More »

October 30, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Poutine: A Deep-Fried Road Trip of Discovery

By Justin Giovannetti Lamothe

Journalist Justin Giovannetti Lamothe crosses La Belle Province to discover the origins of Québec’s most beloved export, poutine, in this new book of culinary history. The origins of this humble dish are muddied; as Clement ... Read More »

October 23, 2024 | Filed under: Food & Drink, History, Reviews

All Consuming: Shop Smarter for the Planet

By Erin Silver and Suharu Ogawa (ill.)

All Consuming: Shop Smarter for the Planet by award-winning children’s author Erin Silver reminds us of the inconvenient truths of our modern, disposable society. This new addition to the Orca Think series thoroughly investigates our ... Read More »

October 23, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

★ This Is It

By Matthew Fox

Sexuality, class, family, death: these grand themes are given a rich and deep exploration in This Is It, a moving and provocative debut novel by Matthew Fox. A Canadian now living in Berlin, Fox (formerly ... Read More »

October 16, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Fiction: Short, Reviews

South Side of a Kinless River

By Marilyn Dumont

“Colonialism is an absence that widens,” writes celebrated poet Marilyn Dumont in “misāskwatо̄mina,” the first poem of her new collection, South Side of a Kinless River. The collection, divided into three sections, opens with a ... Read More »

October 16, 2024 | Filed under: Indigenous Peoples, Poetry, Reviews

By Chance Alone: The Young Readers’ Edition

By Max Eisen and Kathy Kacer

Born in Czechoslovakia, 15-year-old Max Eisen and his family were forcibly removed from their home and deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland in March 1944. Eisen was the only member of his ... Read More »

October 16, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

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