BOOK 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

When We Go Home

By Heather Beaumont and Nátali de Mello (ill.)

When young Marlee’s parents share their excitement about going “back home” to visit Jamaica, Marlee insists Jamaica is not her home. For her, home is the place she shares with her parents and younger brother. ... Read More »

April 15, 2026 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Spying on America

By Bill Gaston

With his new book Spying on America, B.C. writer and retired writing professor Bill Gaston chronicles an almost two-week, early-summer car journey “through a bunch of red states, during Covid, between two Trumps.” Despite the ... Read More »

April 8, 2026 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews, Travel

Weird Babies

By Jaclyn Desforges

Pleasure and danger commingle within the pages of Weird Babies, the striking and provocative fiction debut by RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award–winning poet and children’s author Jaclyn Desforges. So do realism and the absurd. Over ... Read More »

April 8, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Along Came an Aardvark

By Vi Hughes and Lydia Ramsey (ill.)

In Tumble Hill Library, amid a boisterous crowd of children, sits a lonely dictionary aptly named Samuel O. Dictionary. Perched high atop a bookshelf, he is filled with big words – and even bigger feelings. ... Read More »

April 8, 2026 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ The Wren

By A.F. Moritz

A.F. Moritz’s The Wren is a book of Zen koans written by an urban monk posing as a poet. Suggestive of a reflective period after facing health concerns, the poems bypass ordinary logic to flirt ... Read More »

April 1, 2026 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Lying, Stealing, and Other Ways to Save the Planet

By Curtis Campbell

Lying, Stealing, and Other Ways to Save the Planet by Curtis Campbell features a gay teenage would-be investigative reporter who is angry, reckless, and too smart for his own good. John O’Neil wants to fight injustice ... Read More »

April 1, 2026 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Interposition

By Kaie Kellough

An apparently throwaway line at the end of Kaie Kellough’s acknowledgements provides a key to unlocking his latest book of poetry: “These acknowledgements were written while watching snow fall in Kingston, Ontario, listening to Lester ... Read More »

March 25, 2026 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

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