BOOK REVIEWS

★ The Lost Season: A Memoir of Infertility, Motherhood, and the Worry and Work Demanded of Women

These days, the term “liminality” is used to describe just about any place or thing that gives a sense of ambiguity or unease, but when folklorist Arnold van Gennep first coined it back in 1909, ... Read More »

June 3, 2026 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Fast Break

By Anjali Joshi

Fast Break by Anjali Joshi follows Arjun, the new kid at school, who finds himself on a path of activism when he speaks out against OmniBoost, a high-sugar energy drink that sponsors the school and ... Read More »

June 3, 2026 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

I Sure Do

By Charles Demers and Dorothy Leung (ill.)

Some books for babies have plots, some teach concepts, and others exist solely to express how much caregivers love their little ones. Vancouver-based comedian Charles Demers’s picture book debut, I Sure Do, is a poetic, original ... Read More »

May 27, 2026 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Tales of the Mountains and the Sea

By Dania Idriss

Dania Idriss’s Tales of the Mountains and the Sea is a cross-genre debut collection in which characters’ lives, beliefs, and actions are interwoven with Middle Eastern folklore and superstition. In five stories set in Lebanon ... Read More »

May 20, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ The Deepest Blue

By Shauntay Grant and Daniel Minter (ill.)

Communicating history to children effectively can be difficult. It is the crowning achievement of The Deepest Blue, a beautiful picture book written in lyrical verse and filled with layered illustrations, that a serious subject is ... Read More »

May 20, 2026 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

The Body Riddle

By Sam K MacKinnon

Lex is having a difficult winter. Since identifying as gender-fluid, they no longer feel sexual with their bisexual partner Ada. They are enduring a lot to get approval for gender-affirming chest surgery, but can’t decide ... Read More »

May 13, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Tom’s Wild Ride

By Isabelle Arsenault

Tom is learning to ride his bike, and there’s not much that can stand in his way. Sure, he’s wobbly, still using training wheels, and has already taken a tumble that required a bandage, but ... Read More »

May 13, 2026 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Our Little Secret

By Edward Kay and Mikhael Klassen-Kay

With honest depictions of bullying, sexual assault, grooming, power and politics, violence, and murder, Our Little Secret, the co-written debut from writers Edward Kay and Mikhael Klassen-Kay is a frank, few-holds-barred thriller that presses against ... Read More »

May 6, 2026 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Dad Era

By Jordan Abel

Jordan Abel’s sixth book, Dad Era, reads like a long autobiographical poem addressed to his daughter, Phoenix, that seams together generations of family through written and visual narratives. Told in the style of brief musings ... Read More »

April 29, 2026 | Filed under: Indigenous Peoples, Poetry, Reviews

Jelly, Baby: Essays on Disability and Vulnerability

By Therese Estacion

One of the long-held concerns of the international disability community is that the non-disabled world prefers to keep disabled writers confined to a prescribed box wherein we write endlessly and non-confrontationally about loss but never ... Read More »

April 22, 2026 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

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