BOOK REVIEWS

★ Villain Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies

Villain Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies, the debut adult novel from Winnipeg writer Lindsay Wong (author of the acclaimed memoir and Canada Reads finalist The Woo-Woo), opens with a moment that is at once casual ... Read More »

January 21, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Unravelling of Ou

By Hollay Ghadery

Hollay Ghadery’s debut novel opens with a frazzled, middle-aged Minoo running down a hospital hallway with a handmade sock puppet slipped over her hand. Her daughter Roya has just given birth to a baby girl, ... Read More »

January 14, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Where There Is Love: A Story in African Proverbs

By Shauntay Grant and Letícia Moreno (ill.)

How often have you found yourself reciting a saying your grandmother taught you? Shauntay Grant’s picture book Where There Is Love: A Story in African Proverbs, illustrated by Letícia Moreno, captures a girl’s introduction to ... Read More »

December 3, 2025 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

The Garbage Poems

By Anna Swanson and April White (illus.)

Poetry is not often celebrated for its literal use of language, but there is a charming literality to the title of Anna Swanson’s second volume of poetry. The Garbage Poems is a collection built by ... Read More »

November 26, 2025 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Burst Your Bubble!: Outsmart the Algorithms and See What You’re Missing

By Joyce Grant and Jan Dolby (ill.)

Burst Your Bubble!: Outsmart the Algorithms and See What You’re Missing unscrambles a technical topic – online algorithms – and makes it easy for young readers to grasp. Our internet habits can put us in ... Read More »

November 26, 2025 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

★ The Tortoise’s Tale

By Kendra Coulter

In a perpetually online, frenzied, and FOMO-driven world that celebrates hustle culture, demands efficiency, and, in ways, eschews true connection, “slowing down” is often held up as a self-care goal, but one that is rarely ... Read More »

November 19, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Sketch

By Jacques Goldstyn and Helen Mixter (trans.)

It’s easy to see that Sketch, the boy at the centre of Jacques Goldstyn’s ode to the powers of creative individuality, is different. Where everyone around him is rendered in colour surrounded by bold, inky ... Read More »

November 19, 2025 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Other Evolutions

By Rebecca Hirsch Garcia

Rebecca Hirsch Garcia’s fiction resists labels. In her work, human ordeals and the fantastic can intersect to poignant effect. Other Evolutions, the O. Henry Award–winner’s first novel, fuses a coming-of-age story with a family tale and ... Read More »

November 12, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ It Began with a Buzz

By Shiva Delsooz

A young girl is plagued by a persistent buzzing sound that only she can hear. She compares the constant drone in her ears to the hum of a bumblebee. The child’s frustrations come through loud ... Read More »

November 12, 2025 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

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