★ Cicada Summer

Like Italo Calvino’s groundbreaking novel If On A Winter’s Night a Traveler, Erica McKeen’s Cicada Summer (her second book, following on Tear, winner of the 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction) embraces ... Read More »

June 19, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Look! Look!

By Uma Krishnaswami and Uma Krishnaswamy (ill.)

Set in a rural village in India, this book transcends borders with its universal theme that celebrates the power of community and rejuvenation of the environment. Every day villagers would pass through the same weedy ... Read More »

June 19, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

WakeWord

By Wakefield Brewster

Bringing spoken word poetry to the page has historically been seen as controversial, since academia has tended to dictate the ways that poetry can be received and read, and spoken word consistently continues to challenge ... Read More »

June 12, 2024 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ Let’s Go!

By Julie Flett

Let’s Go! by Cree-Métis artist and author Julie Flett is a lovingly illustrated picture book about skateboarding and community. The book’s narrator is a Cree boy, enchanted by the older kids he sees skateboarding past ... Read More »

June 12, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Once Upon a Sari

By Zenia Wadhwani and Avani Dwivedi (ill.)

In Zenia Wadhwani’s Once Upon a Sari, a sari is never just a sari. It is a keepsake that unravels a story, history, and cultural identity unique to its wearer. When I first read Once Upon ... Read More »

June 5, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Where Was Goodbye?

By Janice Lynn Mather

“Trying to be normal can be penance too,” says Pru in Where Was Goodbye? by Janice Lynn Mather, a young adult novel set in Nassau, Bahamas. Karmen Wallace is a 17-year-old entering her final year ... Read More »

May 29, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The War You Don’t Hate

By Blaise Ndala; Dimitri Nasrallah (trans.)

When two former rebel soldiers return to the Great Lakes region of Africa after the Second Congo War, their mission for truth takes on new meaning when they cross paths with a Canadian filmmaker who ... Read More »

May 22, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Wild Trails to the Sea

By Penelope Jackson and Elena Skoreyko Wagner (ill.)

Halifax-based author Penelope Jackson has created a delightful book for children with Wild Trails to the Sea. It is an ode to Nova Scotia’s natural landscapes, including the LaHave River, Crystal Crescent, Kejimkujik Seaside, Hirtle’s ... Read More »

May 22, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ The Jellyfish

By Boum; Robin Lang and Helge Dascher (trans.)

“Graphic medicine” – graphic novels that give a window into various medical conditions, usually from the patient’s point of view – has become a significant publishing trend in recent years, producing notable works such as ... Read More »

May 15, 2024 | Filed under: Graphica, Health & Self-help, Reviews

★ The Lightning Circle

By Vikki VanSickle and Laura K. Watson (ill.)

The Lightning Circle is a novel-in-verse written by acclaimed children’s author Vikki VanSickle. The transformative story of Nora Nichols’s 17th year follows her three-month stay at summer camp in the wake of her first heartbreak. In ... Read More »

May 15, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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