BOOK REVIEWS

The Girls Are All So Nice Here

Ambrosia Wellington, the protagonist of Laurie Elizabeth Flynn’s first thriller for adult readers, discovers that packing away her high-school identity before college isn’t as easy as changing her style of jeans. An aspiring actor, Ambrosia ... Read More »

March 11, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Birdspell

By Valerie Sherrard

Valerie Sherrard is a respected children’s writer, based in New Brunswick, whose considerable body of work demonstrates a deep understanding of children and teens in difficult situations. In her latest book, Sherrard takes her readers ... Read More »

March 8, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy

By Gary Barwin

Can one write a humorous book that grapples with the Holocaust? Gary Barwin has the chutzpah to pull it off, for the most part, in his second novel. Readers who enjoyed the verbal pyrotechnics and ... Read More »

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

★ Tell No Tales:  Pirates of the Southern Seas

By Sam Maggs and Kendra Wells (ill.)

Pirate legends get a fabulously fresh and feminist reboot in Tell No Tales, the first original graphic novel by prolific author and pop-culture commentator Sam Maggs. Inspired by the lives of early 18th-century female pirates, ... Read More »

March 4, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Oh My Gods!

By Stephanie Cooke and Insha Fitzpatrick; Juliana Moon (ill.)

The debut middle-grade graphic novel Oh My Gods!, co-written by Toronto comic book scribe Stephanie Cooke and New Jersey–based Insha Fitzpatrick, delivers light-hearted lessons in friendship and ancient mythology. In this promising series opener, 13-year-old ... Read More »

March 4, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin

By Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Scholar, writer, and artist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg of Alderville First Nation) offers her distinctive Nishnaabeg storytelling in this year’s instalment of the Kreisel Lecture Series, entitled A Short History of the Blockade. ... Read More »

March 4, 2021 | Filed under: History, Reviews

A Brief View from the Coastal Suite

By Karen Hofmann

Karen Hofmann’s novels deserve a place on the shelves of discerning readers across the country. Her 2014 debut, After Alice, was a gorgeous evocation of the Okanagan Valley, which she followed with 2017’s What Is ... Read More »

March 4, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Begin by Telling

By Meg Remy

“I wish I could tell my teenage self ... not to worry what other people think,” say a multitude of voices in a poem-like interlude on Heavy Light, the seventh album from Meg Remy, a.k.a. ... Read More »

March 1, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Return of the Trickster

By Eden Robinson

Spiritual beings, extraordinary powers, and jokes about Frozen are unleashed with abandon in the third and final instalment of Eden Robinson’s groundbreaking Trickster saga. After the first books dawdled through the set-up, this book gleefully ... Read More »

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

Stand Like a Cedar

By Nicola L. Campbell and Carrielynn Victor (ill.)

Nicola Campbell is an award-winning author of such titles as Shi-shi-etko (2006 Anskohk Aboriginal Children’s Book of the Year winner) and Shin-chi’s Canoe (winner of the 2009 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award). Paired with illustrations ... Read More »

March 1, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

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