Lila and the Crow

In her authorial debut, Montreal illustrator Gabrielle Grimard tackles bullying and diversity through the heartbreaking story of Lila, whose new classmates mock her for looking different. Every day, the other students call her a crow ... Read More »

September 22, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Break

By Katherena Vermette

Katherena Vermette’s first book, North End Love Songs, a poetry collection set among Winnipeg’s Métis community, won a 2013 Governor General’s Literary Award. In her debut novel, the author finds herself in familiar and heart-wrenching ... Read More »

September 21, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Gertie’s Leap to Greatness

By Jillian Tamaki (ill.); Kate Beasley

Anne, Pippi, Ramona, Harriet, Clementine: the precocious, incorrigible, too-bright-for-her-own-good young female character is an established archetype in children’s books. The magical thing about this archetype is that so many young readers relate to it, regardless ... Read More »

September 20, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Adjustment League

By Mike Barnes

The Super lives a quiet, solitary life, taking care of a rundown Toronto apartment building in exchange for a break on the rent. After what happened to his wife and daughter, he craves the routine ... Read More »

September 20, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Are You an Echo? The Lost Poetry of Misuzu Kaneko

By Toshikado Hajiri (ill.); David Jacobson (ed.); Michiko Tsuboi (ed.); Misuzu Kaneko (ed.); Sally Ito (ed.)

Empathy is a dominant theme in the work of celebrated Japanese children’s poet Misuzu Kaneko, who died in 1930. Her poems are about making connections and identifying with others – so much so that she ... Read More »

September 15, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

Niagara Motel

By Ashley Little

Ashley Little, author of the 2014 novel Anatomy of a Girl Gang, which won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, goes on a road trip in ... Read More »

September 15, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Liszts

By Júlia Sardà (ill.); Kyo Maclear

Based on its title, and the publishing history of its author, fans of Kyo Maclear might expect The Liszts to be about a child version of the composer. However, with the exception of a visual ... Read More »

September 14, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

A Mortal Song

By Megan Crewe

With A Mortal Song, author Megan Crewe poses the question: what would happen if a heroine with magical powers, prophesied to save the world, turned out to be a regular old human with no special ... Read More »

September 13, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Bit Rot: stories + essays

By Douglas Coupland

It seems quaint that Douglas Coupland’s latest work should arrive in so prosaic a form as thinly sliced trees bound between slightly thicker-cut trees. After all, the Vancouver visual artist, writer, and designer – now ... Read More »

September 12, 2016 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Every Hidden Thing

By Kenneth Oppel

With his new novel, Toronto-based YA author Kenneth Oppel takes readers back in time for a high stakes, romantic adventure set against the classic backdrop of a bloody conflict between rival gangs of ... dinosaur ... Read More »

September 8, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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