★ Young Frances

For many, this new graphic novel from Hartley Lin will signal the debut of a talented, thoughtful cartoonist. But connoisseurs of Canadian literary comics have already gotten to know Lin’s work over the past decade, ... Read More »

March 15, 2018 | Filed under: Graphica

Sofie & Cecilia

By Katherine Ashenburg

Noted non-fiction writer Katherine Ashenburg’s debut novel is a thoughtful contribution to the now-familiar genre of fiction about women overshadowed by their proximity to masculine greatness. As Sofie & Cecilia emphasizes, the cost of male ... Read More »

March 12, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dr. Coo and the Pigeon Protest

By Kass Reich (ill.); Sarah Hampson

Award-winning Canadian newspaper journalist Sarah Hampson has published her first picture book and it’s one that celebrates diversity and promotes respect for others. In this slight story, Dr. Coo is a sophisticated pigeon who knows ... Read More »

March 12, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

Fania’s Heart

By Anne Renaud; Richard Rudnicki (ill.)

In two new picture books – both true tales featuring wartime prisoners at Auschwitz – small objects take on a significance that far outstrips their physical size. The Promise, co-written by cousins Pnina Bat Zvi ... Read More »

March 8, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Promise

By Isabelle Cardinal (ill.); Margie Wolfe; Pnina Bat Zvi

March 8, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ The Red Word

By Sarah Henstra

It is not often easy to identify the ways cultural myths imbue our daily behaviour; a byproduct of any widely accepted mythology is the extent to which it embeds itself in our social consciousness and ... Read More »

March 8, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Rule of Stephens

By Timothy Taylor

Despite the notable presence of anxiety-suppressing and sleep meds (from A to Z: Ativan, Klonopin, Paxipam, Valium, Xanax, Zopiclone), along with 499 souls killed in a jet crash and another handful of suicides, The Rule ... Read More »

March 5, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Possibility of Whales

By Karen Rivers

In her latest middle-grade novel, Victoria, B.C.–author Karen Rivers (The Encyclopedia of Me; Waiting to Dive) delivers a contemporary coming-of-age story fused with otherworldly marine elements. The protagonists in A Possibility of Whales are 12-year-old ... Read More »

March 5, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ They Say Blue

By Jillian Tamaki

With her first picture book, Jillian Tamaki displays a mastery of the form along with a sensitive understanding of the imaginative life of a small child. Tamaki is best known as the illustrator of the ... Read More »

March 1, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

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