BOOK REVIEWS

A Train in the Night: The Tragedy of Lac-Mégantic

By Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny and Christian Quesnel (ill.); W. Donald Wilson (trans.)

Lac-Mégantic made headlines across the country and around the world when a train derailment destroyed half of that sleepy Québec town one summer night in 2013, taking 47 lives in an instant. Now, in an ... Read More »

October 26, 2022 | Filed under: Graphica, History, Science, Technology & Environment

★ Love from Mecca to Medina

By S.K. Ali

It takes courage, patience, and hard work to sustain a romantic commitment – if you are brave enough to make one. There are no “happily ever afters,” except in fairy tales. Love from Mecca to ... Read More »

October 26, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Road of the Lost

By Nafiza Azad

Seventeen-year-old Croi – who appears as a small sprite known as a brownie – has lived her entire life in the Wilde Forest with the Hag, an emotionless guardian made of wood and stone. While ... Read More »

October 24, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Cactus Gardens

By Evelyn Lau

Cactus Gardens is the latest collection by award-winning author and former Vancouver poet laureate Evelyn Lau. Furthering her work of the last decade, the book is a testament to the craft inherent to confessional poetry ... Read More »

October 19, 2022 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ Fayne

By Ann-Marie MacDonald

Ann-Marie MacDonald’s first novel in eight years, Fayne, is a reinvention for the bestselling author, who turns her attention away from the Canadian locales of her previous works to the wild borderlands of the British ... Read More »

October 18, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Revenge of the Raccoons

By Vivek Shraya and Juliana Neufeld (ill.)

Considering how frequently they’re given monikers like “furry masked bandits,” “trash pandas,” and “pests,” it seems no one has a kind word to spare for raccoons. Perhaps with good cause, as anyone who has tried ... Read More »

October 17, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

By Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen (ill.)

If every fairy tale must have a moral, then the one in the much-loved, oft-retold Three Billy Goats Gruff would be something about the perils of deferred gratification (and, possibly, the virtuousness of vegetarianism). Get ... Read More »

October 17, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Motherthing

By Ainslie Hogarth

The so-called “perfect couple” is a reliable starting point for any horror narrative, and a near-demonic mother-in-law only adds to the chance of success. Motherthing, the third book and first adult novel from Ainslie Hogarth, gives us ... Read More »

October 12, 2022

The Elephant on Karlův Bridge

By Thomas Trofimuk

In his latest novel, The Elephant on Karlův Bridge, Thomas Trofimuk imagines the escape of an elephant named Sal from the Prague zoo on an early July morning. The novel follows the elephant through the ... Read More »

October 12, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Ancient Ghosts: A Collection of Strange and Scary Stories from Northern Norway

By Edel Marit Gaino and Toma Feizo Gas (ill.); Olivia Lasky and Lea Simma (trans.)

Some say that ghost stories are as old as storytelling itself – that people would gather in darkness to weave tales of warning. With shadows dancing menacingly on their faces by the dim light of ... Read More »

October 12, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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