In the first of a planned two-volume graphic history of the FLQ (Front de libération du Québec), Chris Oliveros, cartoonist and founder of renowned publishing house Drawn & Quarterly, brings to life the many personalities whose ... Read More »
Canadian author Sara O’Leary and British illustrator Briony May Smith, both prolific in their own right, combine their talents to bring readers the achingly beautiful picture book The Little Books of the Little Brontës. Opening ... Read More »
November 8, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
A bit like a cross between a modern Miss Manners and a letter to your future self, More than Words: Navigating the Complex World of Communication by Valerie Sherrard (The Glory Wind, Birdspell) and Natalie ... Read More »
November 6, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books
The challenge of a memoir is to captivate the reader through a narrative form that matches function. Sleep is Now a Foreign Country: Encounters with the Uncanny is a shape-shifting account speckled with ghost marks ... Read More »
November 1, 2023 | Filed under: Health & Self-help, Memoir & Biography, Reviews
There’s something about Monia Mazigh’s Gendered Islamophobia that is reminiscent of texts such as The Communist Manifesto and Witches, Midwives, and Nurses. These works – short and to the point – were intended by their ... Read More »
November 1, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Race & Ethnic Relations
Curtis Campbell’s debut, Dragging Mason County, is a witty and charming young adult novel that encourages learning to be kinder to oneself and others. Peter Thompkin is part of a small group of queer kids ... Read More »
November 1, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Métis author Arnolda Dufour Bowes’s lighthearted collection of stories, Maggie Lou, Firefox, documents the misadventures of a creative, outspoken 12-year-old. Maggie Lou is always willing to get into trouble – and to drag her younger ... Read More »
October 30, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Most people who have experienced pregnancy have likely at some point had a thought, however fleeting, that they wish someone – or something – else could take over for a while and grow their ... Read More »
October 25, 2023 | Filed under: History, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment
In this warm and inviting picture book, an apartment building bustles with bread–making activity. The sweet smell of collaboration is in the air as families from many different cultures head to their kitchens, roll up ... Read More »
October 25, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
A small girl in Alberta spends time with her grandmother whom she refers to in Blackfoot as Naaahsa. Her grandmother is an artist and together they use their imaginations to create – beading, cooking, storytelling, ... Read More »
October 23, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
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