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Author Archives: Janet

Review: New Shoes by Susan Lynn Meyer and Eric Velasquez

September 1, 2016by Janet 1 Comment

Ella Mae’s shoes are always hand-me-downs from her cousin Charlotte. When the new-used pair from Charlotte don’t fit, Ella Mae and her mother go to Johnson’s for Ella Mae’s first […]

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Historical Fiction, picturebook, Racism, Racism, Space

Interview with Shira Glassman

August 25, 2016by Janet 3 Comments

Author Shira Glassman is best known for her Mangoverse series, which begins with The Second Mango. The Second Mango, Climbing the Date Palm, and A Harvest of Ripe Figs are the first three installments in a […]

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Author Interview, Fantasy, Interview, World of Word Craft

Review: Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection, Vol. 1

August 18, 2016by Janet 7 Comments

From the foreword to Moonshot, by editor Hope Nicholson: MOONSHOT is a project that is a thrilling new collection that showcases diverse aboriginal representation in comic books. This is an anthology […]

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#weneeddiversebooks, Canadian, Collections, Comics, Diverse, Diversity

Review: A Little Wanting Song by Cath Crowley

August 11, 2016by Janet Leave a comment

“You never really know what someone else is thinking,” she says. I nod and put down the map. Nafiza wasn’t too pleased with me last week for not swooning over Cath […]

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Australian Author, Australian Fiction

Four Awesome Aussie picturebooks

August 4, 2016by Janet 1 Comment

I adore Mem Fox and Julie Vivas’s Possum Magic, and yet every time I put the book down I forget just how good it is. Because it can’t have been that […]

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Australian Author, Australian Fiction

Review: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and Gareth Hinds

July 21, 2016by Janet 2 Comments

Plays are meant to be performed, not read. But a) not everybody lives near a theatre that performs Shakespeare’s plays, b) living near a theatre does not mean you can […]

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Adaptations, Diverse, Graphic Novels, romance

Dark Lord of Derkholm: parody and performance

July 14, 2016by Janet 9 Comments

If you haven’t read Diana Wynne Jones’s Tough Guide to Fantasyland, my advise is to get thee to a bookstore and read it as in now why are you still reading this […]

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Diana Wynne Jones, Fantasy, High fantasy, Performing Arts

Review: The Outside Circle by Patti LaBoucane-Benson and Kelly Mellings

July 7, 2016by Janet 2 Comments

The Outside Circle: A Graphic Novel by Patti LaBoucane-Benson; art by Kelly Mellings. Publisher: House of Anansi Press Publication date: spring 2015 Why you need to read this graphic novel: […]

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#weneeddiversebooks, Abuse, Bullying, Canadian, Crossover, Death and Mourning, Discrimination, Diverse, Diversity, Graphic Novels, History, Racism, Racism, Social Issues

Paean and plea the day before Canada Day, 2016

June 30, 2016by Janet 7 Comments

Tomorrow is Canada Day. I happen to be four provinces east of home, and, having driven through those four provinces (five; I had to cross most of BC, too) in […]

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Review: Cold Tom by Sally Prue

June 23, 2016by Janet Leave a comment

Why you might want to read Cold Tom: Faeries. Really different faeries. As in, at first reading I wasn’t sure what species the protagonist was, he seemed so far from […]

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