BOOK REVIEWS

Bittersweet

Indo-Guyanese Canadian Natasha Ramoutar’s debut collection of poems charts paths through diasporas and ends in a celebratory uplifting of Toronto suburb Scarborough, the final destination on this journey. With an especially skilled use of internal ... Read More »

January 25, 2021 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Carmen and the House That Gaudí Built

By Susan Hughes and Marianne Ferrer (ill.)

Carmen and the House That Gaudí Built is inspired by author Susan Hughes’s visit to Casa Batlló, a residence architect Antoni Gaudí built in Barcelona, Spain, in the early 1900s. The gist of the story ... Read More »

January 21, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Who Was Doris Hedges?: The Search for Canada’s First Literary Agent

By Robert Lecker

Ask any historian of Canadian literature to name the country’s first literary agent and the response you’ll likely get is Matie Molinaro. Founder of the Canadian Speakers’ and Writers’ Service, the Toronto-based Molinaro was at ... Read More »

January 21, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

All That Glitters: A Climber’s Journey through Addiction and Depression

By Margo Talbot

As a child, Margot Talbot frequently got locked out of the house by her mother, ostensibly to “teach her to play outdoors.” This is far from the height of abuse and neglect the young girl ... Read More »

January 21, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Riley Can’t Stop Crying

By Stéphanie Boulay and Agathe Bray-Bourret (ill.); Charles Simard (trans.)

Last year, Stéphanie Boulay and Agathe Bray-Bourret won the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award for the French-language title Anatole qui ne séchait jamais, an incredibly moving picture book that introduces young readers to the complex ... Read More »

January 18, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Dearly

By Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood captures the tone of her latest collection in the title poem, when she writes, “Don’t think this is morbid. / It’s just reality.” “Dearly” best encapsulates the poet’s musings on time as an ... Read More »

January 18, 2021 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Word Problems

By Ian Williams

January 18, 2021 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Little Girl Gazelle

By Stéphane Martelly and Albin Christen (ill); Katia Grubisic (trans.)

This past year has seen an explosion of discussion enter the mainstream about racial injustice and police brutality. Globally, Black Lives Matter protests and other anti-colonial movements have brought to public consciousness the uncomfortable conversations ... Read More »

January 14, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

I Am Ariel Sharon

By Yara El-Ghadban; Wayne Grady (trans.)

In Letters to a Young Novelist, Mario Vargas Llosa writes, “It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.” Palestinian-Canadian novelist Yara El-Ghadban’s I Am Ariel Sharon both takes and ... Read More »

January 14, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Girl from the Attic

By Marie Prins and Edward Hagedorn (ill.)

The fantastical middle-grade novel The Girl from the Attic begins in 2001, as city girl Maddy is bent out of shape about having to move to the countryside with her family. Her remarried, pregnant mother ... Read More »

January 11, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

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