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Candas Jane Dorsey is best known for her speculative fiction, particularly the Aurora-winning Black Wine. Her latest novel, which primarily follows the trajectory of a singular figure, Asa, is set in a contemporary landscape that ... Read More »

November 11, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

I Wonder If I’m Growing

By Raffi and Jon Klassen (ill.)

Raffi’s timeless music is the soundtrack to many childhoods, and the beloved troubadour’s 1976 album Singable Songs for the Very Young hasn’t aged a bit. With I Wonder If I’m Growing, Jon Klassen, the 2026 ... Read More »

November 11, 2026 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Briony Penn, with shoulder-length brown hair and bangs, wearing a purple plaid shirt, stands before greenery beside the cover of The Seabird Trials, which shows a seabird underwater beneath a ship at sea.

The Seabird Trials: How a Scientist Took Big Oil to Court and Won

By Briony Penn

In a kayak, bobbing at sea off Galiano Island while surveying a cormorant rookery, author Briony Penn learns of the death of Harry Carter, a legendary seabird biologist, to whom she is connected by a ... Read More »

November 4, 2026 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment

Different Good

By Thao Lam

When two hairy cave people find themselves with a new baby unlike them in every way – it’s not hairy, it doesn’t grunt, it won’t eat meat, and it prefers sticks to rocks – they’re ... Read More »

November 4, 2026 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Carrots Make Me Suspicious

By Robin Mitchell Cranfield

Blessed is the parent whose child is a curious omnivore, ready to sample any dish placed before them. Those children exist, but they are rare. More common are children who, like the young bunny at ... Read More »

October 28, 2026 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Isle of Teeth

By Tessa Barbosa

Matiu, the main (human) protagonist of Vancouver-based Filipina Canadian writer Tessa Barbosa’s second YA fantasy, Isle of Teeth, is caught between two worlds. His father, Jaothan Frankel, was a scientist and a former Archduke of ... Read More »

October 21, 2026 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Third Period Comeback

By E.K. Johnston

Hayley Rilko’s great-grandfather, “Greatest” William, was the kind of hockey player songs were written about: he led the Toronto Maple Leafs to four Stanley Cup wins in five years. But the Leafs have not won ... Read More »

October 14, 2026 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Islanders

By Adrick Brock

Just off the shore of Canada’s largest city sits Toronto Island – actually a chain of islands – best known as a day-trip destination with an amusement park, beaches, yacht clubs, and an at-times-controversial airport. ... Read More »

October 7, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Like Glass

By Jen Ferguson

Tatum Nova Lambert, also known as “Tate,” is spending her vacation in the town of Chamonix in the French Alps, which is where her sister, Brownyn, died a year earlier. Her father, a Michelin-starred chef, ... Read More »

October 7, 2026 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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