ArticlesIssue 79, Fall/Winter 2021/22

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  Features

  URP grows into wide-ranging publisher while working with underrepresented writers

  Known as the “little house on the Prairie with big ambitions,” the University of Regina Press (URP) publishes a mix of trade and academic books for audiences in and beyond the academy in Canada and around the world.

  By Luis Reis     Issue 79, Fall/Winter 2021/22

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  Young Adult/Children

  Teenage chef is challenged to learn about being Filipino through cooking competition

  Winnipeg author Primrose Madayag Knazan takes young adult readers on a journey through the highs and lows of a pandemic-style cooking competition in her novel Lessons in Fusion. The main character, Sarah Dayan-Abad, was inspired by the author’s children.

  By Amanda Sanders     Issue 79, Fall/Winter 2021/22

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  Young Adult/Children

  Hockey theme opens door to discussions about grief, anxiety

  Taking the Ice by Lorna Schultz Nicholson is a novel for middle-years readers that takes a deep dive into the interior life of Aiden Mallory and the many factors that affect his life as he adjusts to the loss of his father in a car accident.

  By Margaret Anne Fehr     Issue 79, Fall/Winter 2021/22

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  Young Adult/Children

  Passion for hip-hop led to filling a gap in picture book offerings

  When Bahamian-Canadian writer Khodi Dill wanted to share his love for rap with his children, he went looking for picture books about his passion. “I naively went book shopping in Saskatoon. Even going online and searching turned up pretty meagre results. I couldn’t believe this gigantic gap in the book market,” he explains.

  By Laura McKay     Issue 79, Fall/Winter 2021/22

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  Young Adult/Children

  Novel blends middle-school trials with time travel, alien attack

  Award-winning writer, illustrator, and cartoonist Dave Whamond found a way to sort through the good times and the bad in his new graphic novel, Muddle School. It’s loosely based on his own experiences of going to a new school at that age.

  By Ian Goodwillie     Issue 79, Fall/Winter 2021/22

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  En Français

  L’enfant qui se sent mal dans sa peau, d’après « Tata Wanda »

  L’acceptation de soi, de sa culture, de sa différence. Voilà le grand thème de Oh, Achouka!, un album jeunesse par Wanda Jemly.

  By Lucien Chaput     Issue 79, Fall/Winter 2021/22

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  En Français

  ‘Tata Wanda’ tells the story of a child not comfortable in her own skin

  Accepting yourself, your culture, your differences: This is the theme of Oh, Achouka!, a picture book by Wanda Jemly.

  By Lucien Chaput     Issue 79, Fall/Winter 2021/22

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  Des histoires de camionneur montrent comment Lafond a refait ses bases

  Le titre de ce premier livre par Yves Lafond est Le boutte de la route : Chroniques en dix-huit roues. Rien de surprenant donc d’apprendre que l’auteur roule en dix-huit roues sur la Dempster au Yukon depuis une bonne dizaine d’années!

  By Lucien Chaput     Issue 79, Fall/Winter 2021/22

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  En Français

  Tales of trucking show how Lafond adjusted his ways, opened his mind

  Yves Lafond’s first book is titled Le boutte de la route: Chronique en Dix-Huit Roues. So it’s not a surprise to learn that the author has been driving his eighteen-wheeler on the Yukon’s Dempster Highway for a good 10 years!

  By Lucien Chaput     Issue 79, Fall/Winter 2021/22

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  Features

  Dispatches

  In 2012, Caroline Fortin, a Quebec publisher and then-president of Livres Canada Books (the association tasked with supporting Canadian-owned book publishers’ export sales activities), received an official document inviting Canada to be Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF).

  By Gillian Fizet     Issue 79, Fall/Winter 2021/22