BOOK REVIEWS

In the Key of Dale

Sixteen-year-old Dale Cardigan is a musical prodigy, plain and simple. He aced his latest Royal Conservatory exam. He plays the organ at the local church for pocket money. He plays piano at his lesbian friends’ ... Read More »

November 14, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

In the Name of Wild: One Family, Five Years, Ten Countries, and a New Vision of Wildness

By Phillip and April Vannini with Autumn Vannini

“Wild” and “wildness” have been used, and overused, to describe everything from adventure parks to cosmetics companies, and because of this it has become a challenge to define the words. Wilderness depicted in overhead ... Read More »

November 9, 2022 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment, Travel

My Indian Summer

By Joseph Kakwinokanasum

Family doesn’t always mean blood, and blood doesn’t always mean family – 12-year-old Hunter, who is desperate to follow his older sister out of the tiny British Columbia town of Red Rock and escape his ... Read More »

November 9, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Water Love

By Natalie Hodgson and Rajean Willis; Sahle Robinson (ill.)

The “giver of life” characteristic of water is proverbial. Yet for many people of African descent, particularly those in the diaspora, the water we swim in carries a darker history of enslavement and death. It ... Read More »

November 9, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Rain Rising

By Courtne Comrie

Rain idolizes her 18-year-old brother, Xander (or as she likes to call him, X). Both intelligent and athletic, X has a scholarship to attend an elite high school where he plays on the football team ... Read More »

November 7, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

My Road from Damascus

By Jamal Saeed

Jamal Saeed’s memoir My Road from Damascus begins not in Damascus, but in a small village in northern Syria named Kfarieh (often spelled as Kafriyah) several hours away from the capital. Saeed spends the ... Read More »

November 2, 2022 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ The Museum of Odd Body Leftovers: A Tour of Your Useless Parts, Flaws, and Other Weird Bits

By Rachel Poliquin and Clayton Hanmer (ill.)

Rachel Poliquin’s latest nonfiction title, The Museum of Odd Body Leftovers: A Tour of Your Useless Parts, Flaws, and Other Weird Bits, is both accessible and enjoyable, with a playful writing style that introduces the ... Read More »

November 2, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ This Time, That Place: Selected Stories

By Clark Blaise

The Germans, naturally, have a word for it. The word is dunkelblau. It’s a colour, a deep blue of the kind usually associated with nighttime. But in Clark Blaise’s story of the same name, dunkelblau ... Read More »

November 2, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Fox and Bear

By Miriam Körner

What happens when we overcomplicate things instead of simply living in the moment? Miriam Körner, who lives in a small cabin in Northern Saskatchewan surrounded by a vanishing old-growth forest, examines the idea of being ... Read More »

November 1, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Kinauvit?: What’s Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for her Grandmother

By Norma Dunning

“The naming of a child for Inuit is ceremonial,” writes Norma Dunning in her new nonfiction work Kinauvit?: What’s Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for her Grandmother. She describes how ... Read More »

October 26, 2022 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography, Native Peoples, Race & Ethnic Relations

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