Parental leave

Contributors

Richmond Lam, who photographed Geneviève Godbout for

Class dismissed

It’s hard to talk about money when you don’t have it

Social circle

After more than 20 years of nurturing writers’ books, Pedlar Press founder Beth Follett looks forward to returning to her own writing

Mergers and acquisitions

As it looks to expand its market to the trade, University of Toronto Press combines its two publishing divisions

Loan Stars

EACH MONTH, Canadian library staff vote for their favourite

Book ’em!

Is it in poor taste for an author to charge a book club an appearance fee?

Pet sounds

The Paws to Read program pairs poochie partners with young readers

Missing stories

Bruce McArthur’s victims will be focus of a book by reporter Justin Ling

Doing time

I thought my parole after seven years of a life sentence made me lucky; now I see it as white privilege at work,

Kindred spirits

This fall, Montreal’s Geneviève Godbout illustrates two of kidlit’s most iconic characters, Anne Shirley and Mary Poppins

Books for Young people Fall preview

More than just bedtime stories

More preteens, more problems

Life’s never easy for fictitious middle-graders, but the characters in these new novels are endlessly resourceful

She persisted

This fall’s YA books feature young women with a cause, on a mission, or (in one case) plagued with leprosy

It was a dark and stormy night

Four authors new to kidlit go to some intense and moody places

Hold the mushrooms, please

In this charming field guide, a mother and her daughters walk in the woods, getting up close and personal with the fungi

What goes around comes around

A new series joins a long tradition of children’s mysteries set in different Canadian locales

Illustrating the good in feeling bad

In three new books, established artists unearth joy by way of a grieving boy, a sad flamingo, and a petulant hedgehog

Who’s betraying who?

Readers will want to defend the South African teenager at the heart of Kagiso Lesego Molope’s YA novel

Home and away

Two memoirs about Syrian refugees reclaim the complexity and nuance that has been lost in the miasma of ongoing civil war

World literature

In these gracefully written stories, rootlessness and unpredictability provide a window on the confusion of being a global citizen

Compound interest

Rabindranath Maharaj delivers a novel of ideas that holds its literary influences on its sleeve

It’s alive

Mark A. McCutcheon posits a connection between Canadian genre fiction and Mary Shelley’s classic novel

Painting with words

Gaspereau Press’s new essay series aims to bring Canadian visual art to a broad readership – for the low cost of a large pizza