BOOK REVIEWS

★ It’s My Body!

It’s My Body! is an exuberant, kid-friendly nonfiction picture-book primer on body positivity. Simple, direct sentences celebrate “ALL KINDS” of bodies and kick-start a convivial conversation about how to be your body’s best friend. Governor ... Read More »

September 19, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda

By Michael Hingston

In Try Not to Be Strange, Edmonton author (and publisher of Hingston & Olsen Publishing) Michael Hingston happens upon the work of Javier Marías, the famous Spanish writer and translator, and finds an odd thread ... Read More »

September 14, 2022 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Call Me Bill

By Lynette Richards

Expertly illustrated in black and white, Lynette Richards’s debut graphic novel tells a fictionalized version of the life of Maggie/Bill Armstrong, an adventurer who defied gender expectations in a quest to do what they loved. ... Read More »

September 14, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Still This Love Goes On

By Buffy Sainte-Marie and Julie Flett (ill.)

Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Still This Love Goes On and Monique Gray Smith’s I Hope/nipakosêyimon offer parents and teachers excellent options for cheerful, lovingly illustrated Indigenous-authored picture books. They are well suited for reading – or, in ... Read More »

September 12, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

I Hope/nipakosêyimon

By Monique Gray Smith and Gabrielle Grimard (ill.); Dolores Greyeyes Sand (trans.)

September 12, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Some Hellish

By Nicholas Herring

When most people think of the Prince Edward Island of literature, the image that comes up is of red-haired Anne Shirley and her romantic, sentimental adventures. But there is another, more rugged tradition of Atlantic ... Read More »

September 7, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Quiet Time

By Katherine Alexandra Harvey

“Have you ever heard of kintsukuroi?” Grace’s therapist, Trevor, asks her near the end of Katherine Alexandra Harvey’s grim, piercing debut, Quiet Time. “It’s this amazing Japanese art form. ... they repair vases that have ... Read More »

September 7, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Apartment 713

By Kevin Sylvester

Be it marble run or Mousetrap, what kid doesn’t love the Rube Goldberg–esque twists and turns of a moving puzzle? In veteran kidlit writer Kevin Sylvester’s newest offering, Apartment 713, the Regency, the apartment building ... Read More »

September 7, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Meet Me in Mumbai

By Sabina Khan

Many South Asian Canadians grew up enthralled with the emotional stakes, the larger-than-life stories, and the space- and time-transcending connections of Bollywood films. Sabina Khan’s latest novel, which spotlights fiercely independent South Asian Muslim girls ... Read More »

September 6, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Ordinary Deaths: Stories from Memory

By Samuel LeBaron

It really is possible to find life amid the fear and pain of death. Samuel LeBaron – a retired family physician, Stanford University professor, and one-time clinical psychologist – has collected his lessons from a ... Read More »

August 31, 2022 | Filed under: Health & Self-help, Memoir & Biography

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