BOOK REVIEWS

★ My Mother, My Translator

“My mother fantasized about becoming a writer. So did her father. Their fantasies became mine. Slowly a strong desire took over and ruined me forever,” writes Jaspreet Singh in his memoir, which marks a return ... Read More »

October 6, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Jamilah at the End of the World

By Mary-Lou Zeitoun

Thanks to David Suzuki and a news clip about a “Totally Awful American Hurricane,” 17-year-old Jamilah Monsour is convinced a climate disaster is imminent. She starts stockpiling supplies and converts her family’s garage into a ... Read More »

October 5, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Flower Diary: In Which Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens a Door

By Molly Peacock

The subtitle to Molly Peacock’s new book about Edwardian-era painter Mary Hiester Reid suggests this isn’t a typical biography or survey of an artist’s work, and indeed Flower Diary is a refreshing treatment of a ... Read More »

October 5, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

The Undercover Book List

By Colleen Nelson

A secret note hidden in a favourite book in the school library. A bookish girl looking for a new best friend. A restless prankster who dislikes reading. These are the ingredients in Colleen Nelson’s The ... Read More »

September 29, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language

By Eufemia Fantetti; Leonarda Carranza; Ayelet Tsabari; (eds.)

An anthology of painstakingly crafted essays, Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language explores the complexities of language and how it impacts identity, culture, and lived experience. The editors Leonarda Carranza, Eufemia Fantetti, and Ayelet ... Read More »

September 28, 2021 | Filed under: Anthologies, Reviews

Sorry for Your Loss

By Joanne Levy

From classics by E.B. White and Katherine Paterson to contemporary novels by Eric Walters and Ali Benjamin, the subject of death is something that children’s fiction is unafraid to explore. The rituals following death, however, ... Read More »

September 27, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Prairie Chicken Dance Tour

By Dawn Dumont

“‘It’s some kind of dance troupe?’ ‘The Prairie Chicken dancers.’ ‘What’s a prairie chicken?’ ‘It’s a bird. Sort of a fat little thing.’ ‘Graceful?’ ‘They can’t fly but they sure can shake.’” When we first ... Read More »

September 22, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Walking in Two Worlds

By Wab Kinew

Bugz Holiday lives in two worlds. In the real world, Bugz – the protagonist of writer and politician Wab Kinew’s first fantasy novel for young readers, Walking in Two Worlds – is an Anishinaabe high ... Read More »

September 21, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Pump

By Sydney Warner Brooman

In their debut short-story collection, Grimsby, Ontario-born writer Sydney Warner Brooman takes us on a twisted journey into a small town where malaise will eat you alive. The swampy landscape of The Pump is true ... Read More »

September 15, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Dee and Apostrofee

By Judith Henderson; Ohara Hale (ill.)

As everyone knows, Aug. 15 is International Apostrophe Day, an occasion the internet celebrates by shaming the apostrophe’s most egregious abusers. Small businesses tend to be easy targets, often for misplaced or redundant possessives (“Open ... Read More »

September 14, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

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