BOOK REVIEWS

★ Night of the Living Zed

Writing duo Basil Sylvester and Kevin Sylvester return with more adventures featuring nonbinary tween Zed and their best friend Gabe in Night of the Living Zed, a companion novel to the well-received The Fabulous Zed ... Read More »

March 20, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ A Year of Last Things

By Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje’s latest collection is impossibly good. It is the work of a mature poet at the zenith of his talent. T. S. Eliot wrote, “The mature poet, in the operations of his mind, works ... Read More »

March 13, 2024 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ Eynhallow

By Tim McGregor

Eynhallow, one of the smaller Orkney Islands, is a rugged, inhospitable place. Seventy-five hectares in size, it is a mere speck in the North Atlantic, now preserved as a bird sanctuary. As Toronto writer Tim ... Read More »

March 13, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ All That Grows

By Jack Wong

All That Grows is a charming picture book, written and illustrated by Jack Wong, about a little brother and big sister who go on neighbourhood walks together, smelling and picking flowers. They also cultivate plants ... Read More »

March 6, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Interesting Facts about Space

By Emily Austin

Interesting Facts about Space, the sophomore novel from Emily Austin (Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead), orbits Enid, an information architect at the Canadian Space Agency, who – true to the book’s title ... Read More »

February 28, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Khadija and the Elephant Toothpaste Experiment

By Farah Qaiser and Hajer Nakua; Natalya Tariq (ill.)

Khadija and the Elephant Toothpaste Experiment offers an example of what happens when, contrary to conventional wisdom, you try something at home. The picture book illustrates how children can find their passion through play, and ... Read More »

February 28, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

The Other Valley

By Scott Alexander Howard

At first glance, the valley is inviting, deeply so. Verdant with orchards and vineyards that overlook a lake, and situated in a leisurely era before cellphones, Instagram Stories, and overtourism, the unnamed region appears idyllic, ... Read More »

February 21, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ K Is in Trouble

By Gary Clement

On at least one book website you will find Gary Clement’s debut graphic novel, inspired by the writing and childhood of Franz Kafka, tagged under “Social Themes: Self-Esteem; Self-Reliance.” It’s a classification that almost certainly ... Read More »

February 21, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ A Garden Called Home

By Jessica J. Lee and Elaine Chen (ill.)

Jessica J. Lee’s debut picture book, A Garden Called Home, is a love story for children of the diaspora. This picture book explores the precious bond between a mother and daughter, and also asks, where ... Read More »

February 14, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

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