BOOK REVIEWS

Hare B&B

By Bill Richardson and Bill Pechet (ill.)

Harry and her hare siblings are out for a walk when their unsuspecting parents are duped and devoured by a coyote. Destitute and with a newly empty bedroom in the house, the kids convert the ... Read More »

March 25, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ A Number of Stunning Attacks

By Jessi MacEachern

In her debut collection, A Number of Stunning Attacks, Jessi MacEachern creates poetry within individual words and sparse lines. The six poems recall the styles of Nicole Brossard and Anne Michaels in how MacEachern makes ... Read More »

March 25, 2021 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

My Body in Pieces

By Marie-Noëlle Hébert and Shelley Tanaka (trans.)

Last year, Marie-Noëlle Hébert won the Prix des libraires du Québec for the French-language title La grosse laide, a deeply emotional graphic memoir chronicling her years-long battle with an eating disorder. The English translation, My ... Read More »

March 22, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

The Octopus Has Three Hearts

By Rachel Rose

As readers, we are accustomed to thematic collections of short fiction, everything from Christmas stories to detective stories featuring cats to stories inspired by a Rush album. These collections, though, are generally multi-author anthologies. In ... Read More »

March 22, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Tainna: The Unseen Ones

By Norma Dunning

March 22, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Zara Hossain Is Here

By Sabina Khan

Basking in the glow of a Biden-Harris White House, America may appear to have a newly progressive sheen, but it’s not bright enough to blind observers to the country’s ugly prejudices. Sabina Khan, author of ... Read More »

March 18, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea: How I Kicked the Shit Out of All My Addictions

By Alex Wood

Most people have something they fantasize about quitting (or at least cutting back on). While these desires to change sometimes have a basis in our health, whether bodily or financial – those weekly stress-relieving trips ... Read More »

March 18, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Charity

By Keath Fraser

Is there a more misunderstood or neglected literary form than the novella? Even more than poetry or short fiction, the novella tends to get overlooked by readers and publishers alike, neither seeming to know quite ... Read More »

March 15, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Life and Deaths of Frankie D.

By Colleen Nelson

Frankie Doe, the 17-year-old protagonist of Colleen Nelson’s impressive new novel, is a consummate outsider. Found in an alley as a young girl with no memory of her past, she has endured a series of ... Read More »

March 15, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Good Fight

By Ted Staunton and Josh Rosen (ill.)

“None is too many.” That was the response of a Canadian official when asked in 1945 how many Jews would be allowed into the country after the Second World War. Anti-Semitism has long been present ... Read More »

March 11, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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