Sorry for Your Loss

From classics by E.B. White and Katherine Paterson to contemporary novels by Eric Walters and Ali Benjamin, the subject of death is something that children’s fiction is unafraid to explore. The rituals following death, however, ... Read More »

September 27, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Prairie Chicken Dance Tour

By Dawn Dumont

“‘It’s some kind of dance troupe?’ ‘The Prairie Chicken dancers.’ ‘What’s a prairie chicken?’ ‘It’s a bird. Sort of a fat little thing.’ ‘Graceful?’ ‘They can’t fly but they sure can shake.’” When we first ... Read More »

September 22, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Walking in Two Worlds

By Wab Kinew

Bugz Holiday lives in two worlds. In the real world, Bugz – the protagonist of writer and politician Wab Kinew’s first fantasy novel for young readers, Walking in Two Worlds – is an Anishinaabe high ... Read More »

September 21, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Pump

By Sydney Warner Brooman

In their debut short-story collection, Grimsby, Ontario-born writer Sydney Warner Brooman takes us on a twisted journey into a small town where malaise will eat you alive. The swampy landscape of The Pump is true ... Read More »

September 15, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Dee and Apostrofee

By Judith Henderson; Ohara Hale (ill.)

As everyone knows, Aug. 15 is International Apostrophe Day, an occasion the internet celebrates by shaming the apostrophe’s most egregious abusers. Small businesses tend to be easy targets, often for misplaced or redundant possessives (“Open ... Read More »

September 14, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Everything Turns Away

By Michelle Berry

Now that we have enough distance from the early days of the pandemic, it feels instructive to view this global event – and how it has affected us – through the lens of history. The ... Read More »

September 13, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Red X

By David Demchuk

Author and playwright David Demchuk was deeply affected by the murders committed by Toronto serial killer Bruce McArthur; he knew one of the victims personally. But what if the disappearances of gay and bisexual men ... Read More »

September 8, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Em

By Kim Thúy; Sheila Fischman; trans.

In Kim Thúy’s fiction, Vietnam largely resides in the memories and gestures of those who fled the country during the war. More than a geographic backdrop, the nation occupies the psychic terrain of heroines who ... Read More »

September 8, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Listeners

By Jordan Tannahill

At the start of the pandemic, as my life shifted to sitting in my apartment all day, I noticed a noise, like two glasses rubbing together. For weeks, I walked around my place with an ... Read More »

September 8, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

A Terrible Tide

By Suzanne Meade

On November 19, 1929, Celia’s celebrating her 13th birthday with her family when their house on Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula begins to shake. Alarmed, everyone runs outside. Was it an explosion? Nobody knows. Since there is ... Read More »

September 1, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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