Editing Patrick Lane’s final book of poetry must have been difficult for his wife, poet Lorna Crozier, but as she says in the introduction, “I turned the editing into a conversation, the final dialogue about ... Read More »
Rainy days are a drag, especially when you’re stuck inside with nothing to do except listen to the pitter-patter on the window. This is the gloomy circumstance in which a group of wonderfully diverse friends ... Read More »
April 25, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
Peanut Butter and Chaos is the first entry in Anita Daher’s new middle-grade fantasy series, The Mythic Adventures of Samuel Templeton, where real science meets imagination. Sam Templeton has been brought up by his distracted ... Read More »
April 20, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
The debut collection of short stories from Métis writer Chelsea Vowel is a gut renovation of the science-fiction genre that liberates dystopian and post-apocalyptic ideas from tired tropes to explore radical possibilities for Indigenous resilience. ... Read More »
April 20, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews
Anne-Marie Turza’s second collection with House of Anansi Press is a straight up weird book. But you will delight in its weirdness. Surreal at its core, the collection uses its musicality to ease its reader ... Read More »
In I Love You More, author and playwright Emil Sher has penned a beautiful book that effortlessly teaches early literacy and reinforces affection toward children. Each page is a fresh window into a child’s life ... Read More »
April 18, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
Andre Fenton has delivered a beautifully crafted coming-of-age story in his newest novel, The Summer Between Us. Eighteen-year-old Adrian Carter struggles as he prepares to finish high school and tries to find his place ... Read More »
April 13, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Abortion is illegal, a plague is spreading, and the Arctic needs defending from Russia. No, Victoria Hetherington’s new novel, Autonomy, doesn’t take place next Thursday. The year is 2035, the place Ontario, and – aside ... Read More »
April 12, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
You Still Look the Same is the first book of poetry by novelist Farzana Doctor, whose fiction explores queerness and sexuality in the small and insular Dawoodi Bohra sect of Islam. Doctor’s 2020 novel, Seven, ... Read More »
A bright and ebullient picture book written by Mahak Jain and illustrated by Anu Chouhan, Bharatanatyam in Ballet Shoes is a celebratory dance-inclusive children’s book that joins the ranks of recently published titles such as ... Read More »
April 11, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
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