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Before the Broken Star

Emily R. King, the bestselling author of the Hundreth Queen books, returns with a new series featuring another strong and unusual heroine. Everley Donovan’s best friends are sex workers, her one desire is for vengeance, ... Read More »

June 27, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Café and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants

By Ann Hui

Chop Suey Nation, by Globe and Mail food writer Ann Hui, is an entertaining look at how Chinese food evolved to become quintessentially Canadian. Hui tells her "sweet and sour story" via a cross-country road ... Read More »

June 24, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Being Chinese in Canada: The Struggle for Identity, Redress and Belonging

By William Ging Wee Dere

June 24, 2019 | Filed under: History

Little Juniper Makes It Big

By Aidan Cassie

So much of growing up is yearning for something that seems permanently out of reach. This batch of picture books attempts to show kids how to cope with the seemingly unsolvable predicament of wanting what ... Read More »

June 24, 2019 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

What Are You Doing, Benny?

By Cary Fagan and Kady MacDonald Denton (ill.)

June 24, 2019 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Dog vs. Ultra Dog

By Troy Wilson and Clayton Hanmer (ill.)

June 24, 2019 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Shout Out

By Andrew Wheeler

When you’re an LGBTQ2IA+ person, finding characters like you, written by people who are also like you, and in the kinds of stories you want to read can be tough. This is especially true for ... Read More »

June 20, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

By Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (ill.)

It’s the colour scheme that grabs you first in Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell’s Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me. The pages are predominantly black, white, and grey except for splashes of the most ... Read More »

June 19, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Beastly Puzzles: A Brain-Boggling Animal Guessing Game

By Rachel Poliquin and Byron Eggenschwiler (ill.)

Part of the fun of reviewing children’s books is encountering an author-illustrator team determined to craft a fresh take on one of the more traditional kidlit categories. When it works, as it does with Beastly ... Read More »

June 19, 2019 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

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Before the Broken Star

Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Café and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants

Being Chinese in Canada: The Struggle for Identity, Redress and Belonging

Little Juniper Makes It Big

What Are You Doing, Benny?

Dog vs. Ultra Dog

★ Shout Out

★ Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

★ Beastly Puzzles: A Brain-Boggling Animal Guessing Game

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