Teatime Around the World

By Denyse Waissbluth and Chelsea O’Byrne (ill.)

Fancy upscale tea parties trace their roots back to the Victorian era, but when the china dolls and miniature cups are packed away and replaced with more grown-up pastimes, the ritual tends to disappear until ... Read More »

September 3, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Changing the Face of Canadian Literature: A Diverse Canadian Anthology

By Dane Swan (ed.)

Editor Dane Swan concludes the introduction to this new anthology of poetry and essays by saying, “Congratulations Canada, you finally have a literature that looks like the people who inhabit you. Do not take this ... Read More »

August 31, 2020 | Filed under: Anthologies, Reviews

Crosshairs

By Catherine Hernandez

In Crosshairs, the second novel by Toronto writer and playwright Catherine Hernandez, the distinction between dystopia and reality becomes increasingly imperceptible. Hernandez presents the disintegration of Canada into a bifurcated society of haves and have-nots, ... Read More »

August 31, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ The Lady with the Books: A Story Inspired by the Remarkable Work of Jella Lepman

By Kathy Stinson and Marie Lafrance (ill.)

The majority of Canadian children – though shamefully not all – can take for granted the availability of books at home or in schools and local libraries. Two new picture books, both told from the ... Read More »

August 31, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

The Library Bus

By Bahram Rahman; Gabrielle Grimard (ill.)

August 31, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies

By Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

The new book by the multi-talented Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg of Alderville First Nation) is a novel of Anishinaabe aesthetics cast in prose and poetic fragments. It presses readers – Indigenous and settler ... Read More »

August 27, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

I Hope You’re Listening

By Tom Ryan

Teenagers, especially girls, are so often the focus of true-crime podcasts that these real-life horror stories might be taken as cautionary tales. It makes sense, then, that YA novelists such as Courtney Summers (Sadie) and ... Read More »

August 27, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

How I Survived: Four Nights on the Ice

By Serapio Ittusardjuat and Matthew K. Hoddy (ill.)

Simultaneously published in English and Inuktitut, the graphic novel How I Survived is a true story of Arctic survival written by Serapio Ittusardjuat, an Inuk stone carver and former mechanic. As the narrator-protagonist, Ittusardjuat methodically ... Read More »

August 27, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

Taken by the Muse: On the Path to Becoming a Filmmaker

By Anne Wheeler

There’s a chatty intimacy to Taken by the Muse, a series of vignettes focusing on adventures Canadian filmmaker Anne Wheeler has embarked on in her life. Wheeler, whose critically acclaimed career includes the feature films ... Read More »

August 24, 2020 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Reviews

★ Brighten the Corner Where You Are

By Carol Bruneau

Maud Lewis did not set out to become Nova Scotia’s most famous folk artist, but the rise of her profile did coincide with the province’s efforts to market an idyllic image to the rest of ... Read More »

August 24, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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