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The Girl Who Was Convinced Beyond All Reason That She Could Fly

It may not be possible to bottle artist and writer Sybil Lamb’s imagination, but Arsenal Pulp Press has done the next best thing with this short illustrated novel. The story takes place on (and above) ... Read More »

November 19, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Waiting for a Star to Fall

By Kerry Clare

Toronto writer Kerry Clare’s sophomore novel begins with the fall of superstar politician Derek Murdoch. Standing accused of sexual assault, Derek denies the anonymous allegations at a press conference, viewed via livestream by his most ... Read More »

November 19, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Izzy in the Doghouse

By Caroline Adderson and Kelly Collier (ill.)

For some kids, the move to reading on their own is dependent on fiercely engaging chapter books – ones that have the right combination of easy vocabulary, short sentences, relatable characters, goofiness, gross-out humour, and ... Read More »

November 16, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Monster and Boy

By Hannah Barnaby and Anoosha Syed (ill.)

November 16, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Black Matters

By Afua Cooper; Wilfried Raussert (photog.)

The world of Burning Sugar – the intimately powerful debut from Vancouver poet and activist Cicely Belle Blain – is, above all else, dynamic, always moving, tracing arcs and trajectories, modes of learning and loving. ... Read More »

November 16, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ Burning Sugar

By Cicely Belle Blain

November 16, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ What Do You Want, Little Friend?

By Marianne Dubuc

If babies could talk, many would utter the sentiments expressed in Please Don’t Change My Diaper, a debut picture book written by Toronto’s Sarabeth Holden. A tot is eager to get outside to play, but ... Read More »

November 12, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

My Family, Your Family!

By Kathryn Cole and Cornelia Li (ill.)

November 12, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Please Don’t Change My Diaper

By Sarabeth Holden and Emma Pedersen (ill.)

November 12, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Working in the Bathtub: Conversations with the Immortal Dany Laferrière

By Adam Leith Gollner

In the introduction to his collection of interviews with celebrated Haitian-Canadian author Dany Laferrière, Adam Leith Gollner writes that his subject’s “narrators are always a version of himself.” There is no line that divides Laferrière’s ... Read More »

November 12, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

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Quill and Quire

The Girl Who Was Convinced Beyond All Reason That She Could Fly

Waiting for a Star to Fall

Izzy in the Doghouse

Monster and Boy

★ Black Matters

★ Burning Sugar

★ What Do You Want, Little Friend?

My Family, Your Family!

Please Don’t Change My Diaper

Working in the Bathtub: Conversations with the Immortal Dany Laferrière

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