BOOK REVIEWS

Who’s Looking? How Animals See the World

Most children take the way the world looks for granted. Only gradually do kids begin to understand how subjective vision can be (though they probably won’t use the term “subjective” until much later). Once this ... Read More »

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

Any Girl

By Caroline van Rooyen

Fifteen-year-old July is hypervisible yet invisible. A teenager in an elite South African private school, she hides her single mother’s terminal illness but is unable to hide her family’s poverty. July, like many women and ... Read More »

May 30, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Cine Star Salon

By Leah Ranada

Upon entering the world of The Cine Star Salon – Leah Ranada’s dazzling debut novel – the reader is introduced to Sophia, a Philippines-born Vancouverite, as she attempts to balance the books of her newly ... Read More »

May 25, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Ben the Sea Lion

By Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd

Stories are a lifeline that intertwines the past with the present. In Ben the Sea Lion, Roy Henry Vickers both grabs our imagination and pays homage to his hometown and life in the small fishing ... Read More »

May 25, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Naked: Not Your Average Sex Encyclopedia

By Myriam Daguzan Bernier and Cécile Gariépy (ill.); Charles Simard (trans.)

Naked: Not Your Average Sex Encyclopedia is an inclusive, essential nonfiction resource for teens – and adults – that covers all the bases. Naked explores 155 topics related to sexuality, organized alphabetically from ally, anxiety, ... Read More »

May 23, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Princess Charming

By Zibby Owens and Holly Hatam (ill.)

When you’re a princess, it can be hard to live up to everyone’s high expectations. This is doubly true when your brother happens to be Prince Charming. Such is the premise at the heart of ... Read More »

May 18, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Blue Portugal and Other Essays

By Theresa Kishkan

Early in Tanis MacDonald’s new essay collection, Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female, the author asserts that stories about walking have largely been the domain of a certain kind of writer on a certain kind ... Read More »

May 17, 2022 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female

By Tanis MacDonald

May 17, 2022 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

Rabbit Chase

By Elizabeth LaPensée and KC Oster (ill.); Aarin Dokum (trans.)

Rabbit Chase is a graphic novel written by Anishinaabe, Métis, and Irish author Elizabeth LaPensée, with art by Ojibwe-Anishinaabe illustrator KC Oster, that blends Anishinaabe culture with Alice in Wonderland to create an exciting new ... Read More »

May 16, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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