★ Room

Emma Donoghue steps outside of her comfort zone with Room, her new novel. The Irish-born novelist, who now makes her home in London, Ontario, is known primarily for her richly detailed historical fiction (such as ... Read More »

September 7, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Kenk: A Graphic Portrait

By Richard Poplak; Nick Marinkovich, illus.

Kenk is a book that merges several mediums, a “hybrid project that simultaneously takes the form of journalistic profile, documentary film, and comic book.” It began life as a film about Igor Kenk, Toronto’s internationally ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Graphica

For and Against

By Sharon McCartney

The title of Sharon McCartney’s latest collection is indicative of the poet’s ambivalence toward her main subjects – surviving breast cancer, undergoing the protracted illness and death of a sibling, and enduring the even slower ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry

★ The Salmon Bears: Giants of the Great Bear Rainforest

By Ian McAllister and Nicholas Read

The Great Bear Rainforest sounds like the stuff of fantasy – a vast wilderness inhabited by creatures such as the Moksgm’ol, the Tsimshian name for the rare white spirit bear. But, as Ian McAllister and ... Read More »

August 30, 2010

Patternicity

By Jim Johnstone

The term “patternicity,” as writer Michael Shermer explains in a 2008 Scientific American article, refers to the human predisposition “to find meaningful patterns in meaningless noise.” It is an attempt to impose order on what ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Not Your Typical Book About the Environment

By Elin Kelsey; Clayton Hanmer, illus.

Author Elin Kelsey and illustrator Clayton Hanmer lay their brightly coloured cards on the table on page one of Not Your Typical Book About the Environment with a promise that their eco-book “is not filled ... Read More »

August 30, 2010

The Flight of the Patriot: Escape from Revolutionary Iran

By Yadi Sharifirad

When the Ayatollah Khomeini came to power in 1979, he promised freedom from the tyranny of the Shah of Iran. For many Iranians, such as Yadi Sharifirad, Khomeini merely replaced one gang of infamous torturers ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Annabel

By Kathleen Winter

A universal concern – the importance of self-determination – takes a highly specific form in Kathleen Winter’s first novel, the story of an intersex child born in a remote coastal Labrador village in 1968. Intersex ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Animal Snoops: The Wondrous World of Wildlife Spies

By Peter Christie; Cat MacInnes; illus.

In Animal Snoops, Peter Christie offers a colourfully illustrated account of sneaky animal behaviour, with loads of examples of wild animals eavesdropping, deceiving, and, yes, snooping their way to the best meals and mates. For ... Read More »

August 30, 2010

Year of the Golden Dragon

By B.L. Sauder

A long time ago, the mystical and powerful Black Dragon presented the Chinese emperor with the gift of an ancient ball of jade. Two thousand years later, when a promise is broken and lives are ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

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