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Kansala uses bright, lively colours, bold, black outlines and cartoon-like characters to create playful scenes. The stars have a quirkiness about them that might make readers believe that they are enjoying the mayhem and mischief that is afoot. https://atlanticbookstoday.ca/lisa-doucet-reviews-the-moon-king

This is a book for the times we live in, where the freedom to traverse global borders has come to be expected by many, but not experienced by even more. @EmmaFitz_Art @ConundrumCanada @SarahSawler https://atlanticbookstoday.ca/emma-fitzgerald-reviews-langosh-and-peppi/ via @@abtmagazine

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Lisa Doucet Reviews The Moon King | Atlantic Books Today

21 hours ago

"Kansala uses a bright, lively palette of primary and secondary colours along with bold, black outlines and cartoon-like characters to create her playful scenes. The stars have a quirkiness about them that might make readers believe that they are enjoying the mayhem and mischief that is afoot." Breakwater Books Ltd. ...

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"Bursting with colour and joyful energy, folk artist Cara Kansala’s new picture book feels like a traditional fairytale, or a beloved nursery rhyme."

Emma FitzGerald Reviews Langosh and Peppi | Atlantic Books Today

2 days ago

"This is a book for the times we live in, where the freedom to traverse global borders has come to be expected by many, but not experienced by even more." Emma FitzGerald Conundrum Press - Canada ...

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"This is a book for the times we live in, where the freedom to traverse global borders has come to be expected by many, but not experienced by even more."

The Gift of Time | Atlantic Books Today

3 days ago

"There are no other private citizens who have supported a whole generation of regional literature in such a quiet but consistent and substantial way" Alexander MacLeod ...

atlanticbookstoday.ca

There is nothing else like the Raddall Prize anywhere else in this country

Aaron Williams Reviews Like Rum-Drunk Angels | Atlantic Books Today

3 days ago

"This transition, from fun to serious, feeling less like a good old “duster” as it comes to a close, is done with such subtlety that it wasn’t until I finished that I realized how well Enfield had pulled off that shift in tone." Goose Lane Editions ...

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"Add Enfield’s landscape portraiture to his dry, unskippable dialogue, and you’ve got the bones of a Western."

N.S. writer Charles Saunders remembered for journalism, groundbreaking fantasy | The Chronicle Herald

3 days ago

We're very saddened to learn of the passing of Charles Saunders, a great innovator in fantasy fiction and a major literary voice of the African Nova Scotian experience. ...

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An important voice on African-Canadian issues and history, and a major figure in the world of Black fantasy and adventure fiction, Charles R. Saunders is being mourned by fans and admirers after his death in May at the age of 74. Over the past two