Fire Song

In this YA adaptation of his 2015 feature film, Fire Song, Adam Garnet Jones offers up an array of real issues facing people living on reserves in Canada as seen through the eyes of teen ... Read More »

April 23, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

By Michelle Dean

Call them what you will – brainy, opinionated, witty, cutting, critical, too smart for their own good. In Michelle Dean’s first book, female critics get their due. The book is timely, appearing alongside Women’s Marches ... Read More »

April 19, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Big Water

By Andrea Curtis

On Sept. 14, 1882, the steamship SS Asia sank in a storm on Georgian Bay. One hundred and forty passengers and crew died; the only survivors were two teenagers from Ontario, who spent three days ... Read More »

April 19, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Ebb & Flow

By Heather Smith

In Heather Smith’s new middle-grade novel-in-verse, the wordplay grabs you first: “Jett, do you know what killed the cat?” “That’s a curious question Grandma – a dog?” So goes the back and forth between the ... Read More »

April 16, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Never-Ending Present: The Story of Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip

By Michael Barclay

When the news broke on May 24, 2016, that Gord Downie, the charismatic front man of the Tragically Hip, had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, it seemed the entire country took a sharp inhalation ... Read More »

April 16, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Age of Voter Rage

By Nik Nanos

Two seismic political events shook the world in 2016, confounding pollsters and pundits and jarring politicians and citizens alike. The first was the Brexit vote in the U.K.; the second was the election of Donald ... Read More »

April 13, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Snuggly

By Glen Huser; Milan Pavlovic (ill.)

In the world of children’s literature, a debate persists: should stories be written to teach a lesson or simply to entertain? While some flock to books with sobering or inspiring instruction, others find these tomes ... Read More »

April 12, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense

By Marcello Di Cintio

Earlier this year, Virgin Atlantic removed a word from its in-flight menu and apologized for any offence it may have caused after some passengers threatened to boycott the airline. The offending word? Palestinian. It was ... Read More »

April 12, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

A Calendar of Reckoning

By Dave Margoshes

Dave Margoshes’s sixth volume of poetry confirms him as a poet who translates life experiences into sensitive commentaries on the deep structures of humanity. In this instance, his focus is on family and death. Coupled ... Read More »

April 9, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Bloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli

By Julie Morstad (ill.); Kyo Maclear

Unique women find their voices and overcome naysayers in two picture-book biographies that follow their subjects from childhood to middle age. In Walking in the City with Jane, author Susan Hughes introduces us to a ... Read More »

April 9, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

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