Meet Me in Mumbai

Many South Asian Canadians grew up enthralled with the emotional stakes, the larger-than-life stories, and the space- and time-transcending connections of Bollywood films. Sabina Khan’s latest novel, which spotlights fiercely independent South Asian Muslim girls ... Read More »

September 6, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Ordinary Deaths: Stories from Memory

By Samuel LeBaron

It really is possible to find life amid the fear and pain of death. Samuel LeBaron – a retired family physician, Stanford University professor, and one-time clinical psychologist – has collected his lessons from a ... Read More »

August 31, 2022 | Filed under: Health & Self-help, Memoir & Biography

★ Boobies

By Nancy Vo

Joining a growing circle of celebratory and educational picture books about the human body (including Tyler Feder’s exemplary Bodies Are Cool) is Nancy Vo’s Boobies. Vo, whom many might recognize as the author-illustrator of The ... Read More »

August 29, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By Kate Beaton

More than a decade after the release of her first bestselling comics collection Hark! A Vagrant, Cape Breton cartoonist Kate Beaton returns with her first long-form graphic memoir, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands. ... Read More »

August 24, 2022 | Filed under: Graphica, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

The Ugly Place

By Laura Deal and Emma Pedersen (ill.)

A picture book collaboration between Iqaluit-based writer Laura Deal and Toronto illustrator Emma Pedersen celebrates the beauty of the tundra and the power of our surroundings to bring us down or cheer us up. Pedersen’s ... Read More »

August 22, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Jones

By Neil Smith

Humour abounds in Jones. On practically every page, there it is. “Gerbils are rats with better PR,” opines Joy Jones. She’s called Brassy Broad by her teenage daughter, Abigail, who possesses “the long, straight, ... Read More »

August 17, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Sweetgrass

By Theresa Meuse and Jessica Jerome (ill.)

Warren is heading out with his older cousin Matthew and their Auntie to pick sweetgrass, as it is one of the sacred medicines used as an offering or to smudge. Since this is his ... Read More »

August 15, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Wild Fires

By Sophie Jai

“The story of my family is one of potholes and cracks that I have tried to fill over the years,” narrator Cassandra Mishra tells the reader a few pages into Sophie Jai’s debut novel, Wild ... Read More »

August 9, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Signs and Wonders of Tuna Rashad

By Natasha Deen

Altuna “Tuna” Kashmir Rashad is a budding screenwriter and children’s swimming instructor living in Ontario, California, who’s on a quest to turn her life into a screenplay – complete with meet-cutes, fun and games, and ... Read More »

August 8, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Arboreality

By Rebecca Campbell

A self-described “writer of weird stories and climate-change fiction” (who “really like[s] ghosts, parasites, and A.I.s” too), Rebecca Campbell explores what-if scenarios that appear fantastical at a glance. Upon closer inspection, though, the Windsor, Ontario, ... Read More »

August 3, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

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