BOOK REVIEWS

★ 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

★ I Won’t Feel This Way Forever

By Kim Spencer

I Won’t Feel This Way Forever is the sequel to Kim Spencer’s award-winning book Weird Rules to Follow. Readers follow Mia as she shares her life in short vignettes – almost like diary entries – ... Read More »

November 5, 2025 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts

By Margaret Atwood

There’s an old joke that goes something like this: How many people do you know who went to Harvard? If you’re not sure, the answer is zero, because anyone who went there will make certain ... Read More »

November 4, 2025 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

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