Stay Where I Can See You

Gwen Kaplan is a content, loving, maybe even slightly smug suburban stay-at-home mom of two. She is devoted to her children and husband and comfortable with her modest, unassuming life. When she wins close to ... Read More »

May 14, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Window

By Marion Arbona

Wordless picture books can obviously be experienced alone, while reading them together can be a little more difficult. But in two new releases, the visual stories break from reality to serve as lush springboards for ... Read More »

May 11, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

At the Pond

By Geraldo Valério

May 11, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Where the Waters Meet

By Stéphanie Boulay; Ghislaine LeFranc (trans.)

A shifting, nebulous sense of identity sits at the heart of this dense, metaphoric novella by French-Canadian author Stéphanie Boulay. Set in what we can assume are the wilds of rural Quebec, Where the Waters ... Read More »

May 7, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ The Abortion Caravan: When Women Shut Down the Government in the Battle for the Right to Choose

By Karin Wells

Not many Canadians remember – or ever knew – the story of the Abortion Caravan, a group of women who drove from Vancouver to Ottawa in the spring of 1970 to challenge Canada’s abortion laws. ... Read More »

May 4, 2020 | Filed under: History, Reviews

Umma’s Table

By Yeon-Sik Hong; Janet Hong (trans.)

How our way of life and health are interconnected with those of our children and parents is of particular interest in this season of global pandemic. In a translation by Vancouver writer Janet Hong, Korean ... Read More »

May 4, 2020 | Filed under: Graphica, Reviews

The Automatic Age

By GMB Chomichuk

The Automatic Age is the first in a series of illustrated novellas by Winnipeg graphic novelist GMB Chomichuk. The story is set in a post-apocalyptic world where robots rule, humans are nearly extinct, and automated ... Read More »

April 30, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Roguelike

By Mathew Henderson

The best poetry combines robust language use and meaning, not one at the expense of the other. Roguelike, the sophomore collection from Toronto poet Mathew Henderson, delivers both. According to the book’s publisher, Roguelike combines ... Read More »

April 27, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Swoon

By Elana Wolff

April 27, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ Weekend Dad

By Naseem Hrab and Frank Viva (ill.)

Divorced and separated dads, when they appear at all in kids’ stories, tend to be grouchy, distracted, hapless, and/or downright awful. They fare better than stepmoms but are almost never taken seriously. Weekend Dad, by ... Read More »

April 27, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

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