BOOK REVIEWS

Mad for Ads: How Advertising Gets (and Stays) in Our Heads

Three thousand. Studies report that’s how many advertising messages we see in a single day. From bus shelters to television commercials to sports uniforms, they’re everywhere – and designed to affect how we think and ... Read More »

May 3, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books, Reviews

★ This Eden

By Ed O’Loughlin

This Eden, the propulsive new novel from Irish-Canadian writer and journalist Ed O’Loughlin, begins with a meet-cute. Alice and Michael are both students in the University of British Columbia’s engineering program, and their first contact ... Read More »

May 3, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other

By Naomi Klein and Rebecca Stefoff

Critically acclaimed author and activist Naomi Klein joins forces with Rebecca Stefoff, a prolific writer for children and teens, to inspire teen activism with the exhilarating new non-fiction book, How to Change Everything. A call ... Read More »

April 29, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Shadow Life

By Hiromi Goto and Ann Xu (ill.)

Award-winning novelist and poet Hiromi Goto has written her first graphic novel, illustrated by debut artist Ann Xu. Together in Shadow Life, they tell the tale of Kumiko, an elderly woman who battles the shadow ... Read More »

April 29, 2021 | Filed under: Graphica, Reviews

★ Speak, Silence

By Kim Echlin

In May 1993, the United Nations established the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), in response to the horrendous crimes perpetrated against civilians during the region’s conflicts in the 1990s. The tribunal’s objective ... Read More »

April 26, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Thao

By Thao Lam

Author-illustrator Thao Lam, the creator behind the critically acclaimed picture books My Cat Looks Like My Dad, Wallpaper, and The Paper Boat: A Refugee Story, returns with Thao. Based on Thao Lam’s own childhood experiences ... Read More »

April 26, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

The Power of Style: How Fashion and Beauty Are Used to Reclaim Cultures

By Christian Allaire

The mainstream fashion industry often excludes those who do not conform to its norms, which can leave people on the outside feeling less than beautiful. In The Power of Style, Christian Allaire, fashion and style ... Read More »

April 22, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

Blood Washing Blood: Afghanistan’s Hundred-Year War

By Phil Halton

Afghanistan is often imagined by North Americans to be either an inferno of endless turmoil and repression of women or a rest stop for hippies seeking enlightenment, drugs, and groovy carpets. In our popular imagination, ... Read More »

April 22, 2021 | Filed under: History, Reviews

★ If I Tell You the Truth

By Jasmin Kaur

A companion to her 2019 debut, Jasmin Kaur’s sophomore YA novel, If I Tell You the Truth, blends poetry, prose, and illustration to tell the intergenerational story of Kiran, a Punjabi woman who flees her ... Read More »

April 19, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Second Place

By Rachel Cusk

Like much of Rachel Cusk’s writing, Second Place feels more like a conduit for philosophical and cultural thought than mere storytelling. Told in the first person, Cusk’s 11th work of fiction recounts a summer in ... Read More »

April 19, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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