Review: New Shoes by Susan Lynn Meyer and Eric Velasquez
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 […]
Author Archives: Janet
Interview with Shira Glassman
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 […]
Review: Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection, Vol. 1
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 […]
Review: A Little Wanting Song by Cath Crowley
“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 […]
Four Awesome Aussie picturebooks
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 […]
Review: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and Gareth Hinds
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 […]
Dark Lord of Derkholm: parody and performance
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 […]
Review: The Outside Circle by Patti LaBoucane-Benson and Kelly Mellings
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: […]
Paean and plea the day before Canada Day, 2016
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 […]
Review: Cold Tom by Sally Prue
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 […]
The Book Wars 