BOOK REVIEWS

★ A Tulip in Winter: A Story About Folk Artist Maud Lewis

By Kathy Stinson and Lauren Soloy (ill.)

Throughout history, female artists have frequently been overlooked and undervalued. A pair of new biographical picture books paint vivid portraits of two women who defied societal expectations and overcame many challenges to pursue their art. ... Read More »

March 8, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality

By Lindsay Wong

Is immortality pleasant? Certainly not for some of the Chinese mythological creatures in Lindsay Wong’s new collection of 13 short stories, including the diao si gui (Red-Tongued Ghosts) who face ghost hunters and psychics after ... Read More »

March 1, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Delicious Monsters

By Liselle Sambury

Seventeen-year-old Daisy Odlin can see ghosts. Like moths to a flame, spirits of the dead gravitate toward misery – something Daisy has in constant supply. Dealing with the burden of her psychic abilities, a simultaneously ... Read More »

March 1, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Akim Aliu: Dreamer

By Akim Aliu and Greg Anderson Elysée; Karen De la Vega and Marcus Williams (ill.)

Akim Aliu: Dreamer is a moving graphic novel memoir by former pro hockey player Akim Aliu, written with Greg Anderson Elysée. After falling in love with skating, Aliu teaches himself how to skate and dreams ... Read More »

February 22, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

★ What’s in Flora’s Shoebox?

By Sarah Jane Conklin and Venus Angelica (ill.)

The rise of sea levels and global temperatures along with shrinking glaciers and extreme weather events has made it impossible to deny climate change. As attempts to reduce our carbon footprint gain traction, the idea ... Read More »

February 20, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Some Unfinished Business

By Antanas Sileika

Reading two novels set in Soviet Europe in tandem, recurrent questions echo between two distinct fictional worlds. Must the past be understood in order to move forward? And in what ways does it define our ... Read More »

February 15, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

In a Land without Dogs the Cats Learn to Bark

By Jonathan Garfinkel

February 15, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Like a Hurricane

By Jonathan Bécotte and Jonathan Kaplansky (trans.)

Like a Hurricane by award-winning Montreal author and elementary school teacher Jonathan Bécotte, and translated by Jonathan Kaplansky, is a novel in verse about a young teen struggling to reveal his true self to friends ... Read More »

February 15, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Heroines, Rescuers, Rabbis, Spies: Unsung Women of the Holocaust

By Sarah Silberstein Swartz

Can ordinary people make a difference in a world gone mad? Absolutely, as Heroines, Rescuers, Rabbis, Spies demonstrates through the gripping stories of nine daring young women whose resistance to Nazi brutality saved hundreds of ... Read More »

February 15, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

Chrysalis

By Anuja Varghese

Anuja Varghese’s debut collection, Chrysalis, offers 15 shapeshifting stories that transport us to sex clubs, food courts, small towns, and haunted motels where women reclaim their lives. The opening story, “Bhupati,” tells of a new ... Read More »

February 8, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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