BOOK REVIEWS

Meet David Suzuki

The newest picture book in the Scholastic Canada Biography series written by Elizabeth MacLeod and illustrated by Mike Deas offers an engaging look at environmentalist David Suzuki’s life thus far. The narrative, which begins and ... Read More »

September 1, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

★ A Kid Is a Kid Is a Kid

By Sara O’Leary‚ Qin Leng (ill.)

The dynamic duo behind the bestselling picture book A Family Is a Family Is a Family – Sara O’Leary and Qin Leng – returns with the utterly delightful companion, A Kid Is a Kid Is ... Read More »

September 1, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Undersong

By Kathleen Winter

She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares, and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears; And love, and thought, and joy. So wrote William Wordsworth of his sister, Dorothy, ... Read More »

September 1, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ The Annual Migration of Clouds

By Premee Mohamed

Premee Mohamed imagines a dystopic future in a new novella that is deeply speculative and character driven. Through Mohamed’s breathtaking prose, this post-apocalyptic story unravels meditations on community building, adaptation, and collective survival. The narrative ... Read More »

September 1, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Living with Viola

By Rosena Fung

Toronto cartoonist Rosena Fung is well known on the zine and comics festival circuit, and while for many readers her first full-length graphic novel will showcase a new talent, for others Living with Viola is ... Read More »

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

Satched

By Megan Gail Coles

Satched – a slang word for drunk, soaking wet, or weighed down – perfectly captures the tone of this confessional work by Megan Gail Coles, a 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist turning her hand this ... Read More »

September 1, 2021 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Vagabond: Venice Beach, Slab City and Points in Between

By Ceilidh Michelle

Cheryl Strayed’s blockbuster Wild marked a formidable shift in the women’s memoir category, essentially taking Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love from a Contiki tour to a blistering bootcamp detox. Somewhere along the marketing way, these ... Read More »

August 26, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

The cover of Hetxwms Gyetxw (Brett D. Huson) and illustrator Natasha Donovan's Wolf Mother with a photo of the author

The Wolf Mother

By Hetxw’ms Gyetxw (Brett D. Huson); Natasha Donovan (ill.)

The Wolf Mother, the fifth book in the Mothers of Xsan series, follows a grey wolf from newborn pup to pack leader to Nox Gibuu (Wolf Mother). The wolf’s journey begins in the spring when ... Read More »

August 25, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books, Picture Books

The Bushman’s Lair: On the Trail of  the Fugitive of the Shuswap

By Paul McKendrick

If Netflix is looking for a thriller with suspicious deaths, greed, gold, government corruption, a secret underground cave, and an eccentric lead character, it would do well to consider first-time author Paul McKendrick’s brisk and ... Read More »

August 24, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ It Takes Guts: How Your Body Turns Food into Fuel (and Poop)

By Jennifer Gardy; Belle Wuthrich (ill.)

Right now, with NASA flying helicopters on Mars and SpaceX planning new spaceports, off-world exploration is the thing. But for many kids, the airless void beyond Earth’s atmosphere can never quite match the fascination they ... Read More »

August 23, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

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