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★ The Day Santa Stopped Believing in Harold

Given our climate, it’s no surprise that Canadian kidlit publishers make the most of winter-themed titles, releasing a few every fall. This year’s crop is strong and inclusive, with something to celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, or ... Read More »

December 9, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

Yitzi and the Giant Menorah

By Richard Ungar

December 8, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

Making Canada Home: How Immigrants Shaped This Country

By Susan Hughes

In a year when immigration to Canada has reached its highest levels since 1971, and as political talk south of the border focuses heavily on stemming the flow of newcomers, Susan Hughes’s latest book for ... Read More »

December 8, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

A Desolate Splendor

By John Jantunen

It may have become too easy to invoke the name Cormac McCarthy when discussing a certain strain of contemporary fiction, but when the shoe fits so snugly, such comparisons are unavoidable. John Jantunen’s second novel ... Read More »

December 8, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Promise of Canada: 150 Years – People and Ideas That Have Shaped Our Country

By Charlotte Gray

Canada’s sesquicentennial in 2017 no doubt will prompt much soul-searching around the subject of how to define our country. Is it easier or harder, 150 years after Confederation, to explain who we are? And how ... Read More »

December 8, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reference

★ The Branch

By Mireille Messier; Pierre Pratt (ill.)

December 8, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

Barbaric Cultural Practice

By Penn Kemp

It seems strangely à propos to see refined, award-winning poet and activist Penn Kemp return to a thematics of barbarism in her latest book. Kemp opens with “Tip Line,” a poem that sets the stage ... Read More »

December 6, 2016 | Filed under: Poetry

Adrift At Sea: A Vietnamese Boy’s Story of Survival

By Brian Deines (ill.); Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch; Tuan Ho

A new picture book from multiple-award-winning author Marsha Skrypuch and renowned illustrator Brian Deines tells the story of a young boy’s remarkable escape from Vietnam in the early 1980s. The book opens with six-year-old Tuan ... Read More »

December 6, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Yes or Nope

By Meaghan Strimas

In Meaghan Strimas’s third collection, the poet picks up where she left off in 2010’s A Good Time Had by All. Not one to shy away from life’s rougher edges, Strimas possesses a knack for ... Read More »

December 6, 2016 | Filed under: Poetry

Amanda on the Danube: The Sounds of Music

By Darlene Foster

The fifth novel in the Amanda Travels series from Vancouver author Darlene Foster follows 12-year-old Amanda Ross, her best friend, Leah, and their parents as they cruise on a riverboat along the Danube through Germany, ... Read More »

December 5, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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