BOOK REVIEWS

★ Mansions of the Moon

After nearly a decade, bestselling author of Funny Boy and The Hungry Ghosts Shyam Selvadurai returns with a sweeping new novel set in ancient India. It introduces readers to Siddhartha Gotama – the man who ... Read More »

May 11, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Lizzy and the Cloud

By The Fan Brothers

Every time Governor General’s Literary Award–winning brothers Eric Fan and Terry Fan (of The Barnabus Project) join forces for a picture-book collaboration, magic happens. Their latest, Lizzy and the Cloud, is no exception. Lizzy, a ... Read More »

May 11, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Blood Scion

By Deborah Falaye

On the heels of Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone and Natasha Bowen’s Skin of the Sea comes a new foray into the epic world of Yoruba gods and monsters. Deborah Falaye’s young adult ... Read More »

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

★ This Is How We Love

By Lisa Moore

Lisa Moore’s latest novel contains all the hallmarks that fans of the St. John’s author have come to expect: tightly constructed chapters that paint vivid images despite their almost minimalist prose; dialogue and turns of ... Read More »

May 4, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Another Squiggly Story

By Andrew Larsen and Mike Lowery (ill.)

The 2016 picture book A Squiggly Story, by Toronto author Andrew Larsen and Atlanta, Georgia, illustrator Mike Lowery, was a charming and surprisingly in-depth exploration of how creativity interacts with the mechanics of storytelling. ... Read More »

May 4, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Flying, Falling, Catching: An Unlikely Story of Finding Freedom

By Henri J. M. Nouwen and Carolyn Whitney-Brown

Five years before his fatal heart attack in 1996, Dutch theologian, psychologist, and teacher Henri Nouwen’s outlook on life was changed by a trapeze act high up in a circus tent. For Nouwen, the ... Read More »

May 3, 2022 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Cold

By Mariko Tamaki

Mariko Tamaki’s Cold begins as a murder mystery, but from the moment Todd’s ghost lays eyes upon his own body, he remembers being bullied by his classmates and the story’s melancholic undercurrent becomes clear. Despite ... Read More »

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

★ But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust

By Miriam Libicki and David Schaffer; Gilad Seliktar and Nico and Rolf Kamp; Barbara Yelin and Emmie Arbel; Charlotte Schallié (ed.)

Never forget. This is the rallying cry of the Holocaust remembrance movement. Yet Holocaust denial is widespread and global anti-Semitism is on the rise. There is an epidemic of both ignorance and disinformation about the ... Read More »

April 27, 2022 | Filed under: Graphica, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Wrong Side of the Court

By H.N. Khan

Fawad Chaudhry has one dream in life: to make it to the NBA. But before that can happen, he needs his mother to let him try out for the school basketball team. The 15-year-old admits ... Read More »

April 27, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ The Quiet in Me

By Patrick Lane and Lorna Crozier (intro.)

Editing Patrick Lane’s final book of poetry must have been difficult for his wife, poet Lorna Crozier, but as she says in the introduction, “I turned the editing into a conversation, the final dialogue about ... Read More »

April 26, 2022 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

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