BOOK REVIEWS

Good Citizens Need Not Fear

Michael Melgaard’s debut collection of short fiction, Pallbearing, begins with a story of the same name. Jonathan is a pallbearer for his friend Alana, a young woman who was terminally ill for long enough to ... Read More »

February 3, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Story Boat

By Kyo Maclear and Rashin Kheiriyeh (ill.)

What if one were to imagine the refugee experience from the eyes of a couple of imaginative, ever-positive, Zen-like kids? Sounds improbable, but the picture book Story Boat pulls it off with aplomb. Written by ... Read More »

January 30, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada

By Rodney Diverlus; Sandy Hudson; and Syrus Marcus Ware (eds.)

The anthology Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada is a comprehensive compendium focusing on the most urgent issues facing Canada’s Black community today. Edited by core and founding members of ... Read More »

January 30, 2020 | Filed under: Anthologies, Reviews

★ Salma the Syrian Chef

By Danny Ramadan and Anna Bron (ill.)

The kitchen can be one of the first places where kids experience a real sense of accomplishment and belonging. A trio of new picture books, featuring food from around the world, shows how cooking helps ... Read More »

January 27, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Bilal Cooks Daal

By Aisha Saeed and Anoosha Syed (ill.)

January 27, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao

By Kat Zhang and Charlene Chua (ill.)

January 27, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Recipe for a Perfect Wife

By Karma Brown

Alice Hale is desperate to escape her life, but she never imagined freedom would mean leaving New York City for a dilapidated old house in the bedroom town of Greenville. She only agrees to her ... Read More »

January 23, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Bloom

By Kenneth Oppel

If you were to tweak the words to that famous Five Man Electrical Band protest song, you’d have the gist of the latest Kenneth Oppel novel: Vine, vine, everywhere a vine, blocking out the scenery, ... Read More »

January 23, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen: The Body Under the Piano

By Marthe Jocelyn and Isabelle Follath (ill.)

This first instalment in an exciting new historical-fiction series by Marthe Jocelyn (Mable Riley; What We Hide) promises to woo a new generation of mystery fans. In the character of Aggie Morton, Jocelyn’s created a ... Read More »

January 20, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ The Baudelaire Fractal

By Lisa Robertson

Acclaimed poet Lisa Robertson’s debut novel is a difficult book. But that should be expected, seeing as Robertson’s poetry is also famously difficult. Her work – conceptual, fixated on questions of form and linguistic subjectivity, ... Read More »

January 20, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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