Look Out for the Fitzgerald-Trouts

Screenwriter, poet, and author Esta Spalding dips her toe into the ocean of children’s writing with her debut middle-grade novel, the first in a series about a family of loosely related children who have been ... Read More »

March 21, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Maya

By Mahak Jain; Elly MacKay (illus.)

It takes considerable talent for an illustrator to do justice to the peacock, to come even close to matching nature in rendering its most exquisite bird. With their textured and evocative illustrations in Malaika’s Costume ... Read More »

March 18, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

Malaika’s Costume

By Nadia L. Hohn; Irene Luxbacher (illus.)

March 16, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Don’t Be Interesting

By Jacob McArthur Mooney

Jacob McArthur Mooney’s first collection since 2011’s Folk (which was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize) has at its centre a mind-bending conundrum. A graph (which functions as a kind of preface to the collection ... Read More »

March 16, 2016 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Harry and Walter

By Kathy Stinson; Qin Leng (illus.)

Next-door neighbours Harry and Walter are best friends. Harry is four and three-quarters and Walter is 92 and a half. Despite the generation gap, the “boys” do everything together, from making paper airplanes to building ... Read More »

March 16, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Killing Game: Martyrdom, Murder and the Lure of ISIS

By Mark Bourrie

Marshall McLuhan would have had a field day exploring the dynamics of a terrorist group whose instantly recognizable brand of brutality appeals to disaffected youth while inspiring panic in the world’s most powerful nations. Ottawa ... Read More »

March 10, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend

By Alan Cumyn

A cute new transfer student usually causes a fair bit of commotion in high school, but when that transfer student happens to be a dinosaur who should have been extinct for the last 65 million ... Read More »

March 10, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

A Mingus Lullaby

By Dane Swan

“Genre doesn’t exist,” claims Dane Swan in a 2013 interview on the website Black Coffee Poet. “There are different ways you have to manipulate your work so that it fits a medium. Medium exists. For ... Read More »

March 9, 2016 | Filed under: Poetry

Startle and Illuminate: Carol Shields on Writing

By Carol Shields; Anne Giardini (ed.); Nicholas Giardini (ed.)

When Carol Shields died in 2003, she left behind a wealth of papers and unpublished material now housed at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa. One of Canada’s pre-eminent novelists (the word “beloved” frequently accompanies ... Read More »

March 7, 2016 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Saving Montgomery Sole

By Mariko Tamaki

Mariko Tamaki gives good misfit. In a YA field crowded with stock outcasts, Tamaki’s weirdos stand out for never being merely the sum of a few obvious quirks or emotions. Nor are they princes- and ... Read More »

February 29, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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