BOOK REVIEWS

★ The Deepest Blue

By Shauntay Grant and Daniel Minter (ill.)

Communicating history to children effectively can be difficult. It is the crowning achievement of The Deepest Blue, a beautiful picture book written in lyrical verse and filled with layered illustrations, that a serious subject is ... Read More »

May 20, 2026 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

The Body Riddle

By Sam K MacKinnon

Lex is having a difficult winter. Since identifying as gender-fluid, they no longer feel sexual with their bisexual partner Ada. They are enduring a lot to get approval for gender-affirming chest surgery, but can’t decide ... Read More »

May 13, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Tom’s Wild Ride

By Isabelle Arsenault

Tom is learning to ride his bike, and there’s not much that can stand in his way. Sure, he’s wobbly, still using training wheels, and has already taken a tumble that required a bandage, but ... Read More »

May 13, 2026 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Our Little Secret

By Edward Kay and Mikhael Klassen-Kay

With honest depictions of bullying, sexual assault, grooming, power and politics, violence, and murder, Our Little Secret, the co-written debut from writers Edward Kay and Mikhael Klassen-Kay is a frank, few-holds-barred thriller that presses against ... Read More »

May 6, 2026 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Dad Era

By Jordan Abel

Jordan Abel’s sixth book, Dad Era, reads like a long autobiographical poem addressed to his daughter, Phoenix, that seams together generations of family through written and visual narratives. Told in the style of brief musings ... Read More »

April 29, 2026 | Filed under: Indigenous Peoples, Poetry, Reviews

Jelly, Baby: Essays on Disability and Vulnerability

By Therese Estacion

One of the long-held concerns of the international disability community is that the non-disabled world prefers to keep disabled writers confined to a prescribed box wherein we write endlessly and non-confrontationally about loss but never ... Read More »

April 22, 2026 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Qaf’s People

By Sadiqa de Meijer

Qaf’s People marks Sadiqa de Meijer’s return to poetry after the 2020 Governor General’s Award–winning memoir alfabet / alphabet. In Qaf’s People, the poet laureate of Kingston, Ontario, resurfaces questions about diaspora, belonging, identity, language, ... Read More »

April 22, 2026 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Beast Ballerz

By Wesley King and Steve Wolfhard (ill.)

“I knew something was up when I grew a beard in the fifth grade. Overnight.” So begins the new middle-grade reader from prolific Newfoundland-based author Wesley King. Eleven-year-old narrator-protagonist Baxter “Bax” Brooks is a seemingly ... Read More »

April 22, 2026 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ The Tinder Sonnets

By Jennifer LoveGrove

The Tinder Sonnets by Jennifer LoveGrove has everything I want from a book of poetry. Needle-sharp metaphors and language play. Immersive imagery that assaults your senses and makes you forget you’re reading a book. A ... Read More »

April 15, 2026 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

In Crow’s Field

By Judith Thompson

Ana Burns is lying in a field of mustard flowers, “stoned on Windowpane acid,” her mind drifting back and forth through a series of horrific events from her childhood. Now 17 years old, Ana is ... Read More »

April 15, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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