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Miranda and Maude: The Princess and the Absolutely Not a Princess

By Emma Wunsch; Jessika von Innerebner (ill.)

Going for mass-market appeal, three new middle-grade series, respectively, stake claim in the gross-out genre, borrow heavily from another international bestselling series, and woo the lucrative Disney princess–loving crowd. Scholastic Canada has brought together veteran ... Read More »

September 17, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Billy Stuart and the Zintrepids

By Alain M. Bergeron; Sampar (ill.); Sophie B. Watson (trans.)

September 17, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family

By Lindsay Wong

There’s something almost addictive about The Woo-Woo, the new memoir from Vancouver writer Lindsay Wong. Darkly funny, steeped in the macabre and grotesque, the book is at once an unflinching portrait of a borderline abusive ... Read More »

September 17, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Dear Evelyn

By Kathy Page

Kathy Page’s latest novel is a portrait of a marriage. In this respect, and in its linking of personal and historical events across the 20th century, Dear Evelyn is familiar, even conventional, both formally and ... Read More »

September 13, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Beardmore: The Viking Hoax That Rewrote History

By Douglas Hunter

In 1936, Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum purchased 10th-century Norse relics from Eddy Dodd, a prospector who said he’d uncovered them on his mining plot in Beardmore, Ontario. The relics were displayed in the museum as ... Read More »

September 13, 2018 | Filed under: History

Who Killed Tom Thomson?: The Truth about the Murder of One of the 20th Century’s Most Famous Artists

By John Little

It’s the most enduring mystery in Canadian art: how did famed landscape painter Tom Thomson die? The past century has seen a flood of books, articles, and documentaries speculating – without reaching a definitive determination ... Read More »

September 10, 2018 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Infinite Blue

By Darren Groth; Simon Groth

Water imagery abounds in Darren and Simon Groth’s Infinite Blue. The two brothers, writing as a team, weave a neighbourhood flood, an important bathtub chat, and a dripping shower into a story that sees water ... Read More »

September 10, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Tree Musketeers

By Norma Charles

Tree Musketeers, a middle-grade novel by accomplished West Coast writer Norma Charles (Runner: Harry Jerome, World’s Fastest Man), is a universal fish-out-of-water story. Jeanie is new at school, having just moved to Van City from ... Read More »

September 7, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Learning to Breathe

By Janice Lynn Mather

In her debut young-adult novel, Janice Lynn Mather introduces readers to Indira May Ferguson – Indy for short – who’s leaving the Bahamian village of Mariner’s Cay to live with her uncle, aunt, and cousin ... Read More »

September 6, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Almost Invisible

By Maureen Garvie

There are plenty of children’s books that explore the fantasy of living in a public space – for example, Corduroy, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, or The Invention of Hugo Cabret. ... Read More »