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Raising Royalty: The Canadian History
Carolyn Harris on Canada's contribution to the changing conversation about royal parenting through the ages.
Notes from a Children's Librarian: Books on Cooperation
These picture books make good springboards for discussion on cooperation and the complexities involved when people work together.
Writing the World
Books about travel, migration and immigration that show us what we can learn by going to find ourselves—as readers and people—in places where we don't …
We All Come From Somewhere: On Canadian Immigrant Women's Stories
"I was an outsider. I did not belong. But far from threatening, I was lonely, clueless and utterly terrified."
Andrea McPherson: Bad Mothers and Wives
Women who dare to defy society's expectations for them—for better or for worse.
National Poetry Month: Poems on Time
Poems about time: history, progress, resistance, and what's to come...
SakKijâjuk: Art and Craft from Nunatsiavut
SakKijâjuk—"to be visible" in the Nunatsiavut dialect of Inuktitut—provides an opportunity for readers, collectors, art historians, and art aficionados …
Evenings and Weekends in Hamilton's Music Scene: An Excerpt
Andrew Baulcomb's Evenings & Weekends: Five Years in Hamilton Music, 2006–2011 is the first and only book to document the rise of Juno Award winners …
Beautiful and Horrifying: Lori McNulty on Where the Two Meet
A great recommended reading list from a writer who has been called "a new master witness of life on Earth."
Shelf Talkers: The Best New Book I've Read
For this month’s Shelf Talkers column, we’ve set our panel of erstwhile indie booksellers a single question: what’s the best new book you’ve read? …