BOOK REVIEWS

★ Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao

The kitchen can be one of the first places where kids experience a real sense of accomplishment and belonging. A trio of new picture books, featuring food from around the world, shows how cooking helps ... Read More »

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

Recipe for a Perfect Wife

By Karma Brown

Alice Hale is desperate to escape her life, but she never imagined freedom would mean leaving New York City for a dilapidated old house in the bedroom town of Greenville. She only agrees to her ... Read More »

January 23, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Bloom

By Kenneth Oppel

If you were to tweak the words to that famous Five Man Electrical Band protest song, you’d have the gist of the latest Kenneth Oppel novel: Vine, vine, everywhere a vine, blocking out the scenery, ... Read More »

January 23, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen: The Body Under the Piano

By Marthe Jocelyn and Isabelle Follath (ill.)

This first instalment in an exciting new historical-fiction series by Marthe Jocelyn (Mable Riley; What We Hide) promises to woo a new generation of mystery fans. In the character of Aggie Morton, Jocelyn’s created a ... Read More »

January 20, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ The Baudelaire Fractal

By Lisa Robertson

Acclaimed poet Lisa Robertson’s debut novel is a difficult book. But that should be expected, seeing as Robertson’s poetry is also famously difficult. Her work – conceptual, fixated on questions of form and linguistic subjectivity, ... Read More »

January 20, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

I Will See You Again

By Lisa Boivin

This unique picture book for older readers is a gentle story of bereavement told through digital paintings and a simple narrative. Author and artist Lisa Boivin is a member of the Deninu Kue First Nation, ... Read More »

January 16, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Never Forget

By Martin Michaud; Arthur Holden (trans.)

Crime writers working in a series format must navigate a fine line between making each novel unique and accessible to new readers, and ensuring enough continuity and development to satisfy long-time series devotees. This line ... Read More »

January 16, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Many Rivers to Cross

By Peter Robinson

January 16, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Cells: An Owner’s Handbook

By Carolyn Fisher

Two non-fiction picture books offer crash courses in biology and meteorology by way of unconventional instructors. Ellie, a skin cell living on the bum of a Boston terrier, delivers an exuberant ... Read More »

January 13, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books, Picture Books

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