Vanessa Bonneau

Superheroes, dinosaurs, mythical beasts, different kids, Black pride and a bedtime poem – our roundup of kids' book titles for spring 2021.

Louis Carson's Measure and MJ Lyons's Murder at the World's Fair take young readers on incredible trips.

This season's selection of books for young adults.

Highlights of the season’s books for young people

The year is off to a good start for Monique Polak. Not only will she see her eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth books for young readers published, but she’s also the first CBC/QWF Writer-in-Residence. For Polak, these are all opportunities to tell her stories.

If Montreal does continue to draw young writers – even the ones writing in English – what kind of writing are they producing?

This gives the book an authentic feel, and provides the reader with the inside scoop (on insecurities, on sex – the usual topics that make a diary a juicy read).

The stories are tight, economical, and each sentence has been nursed and carefully crafted. Spry has an ear for slang and tone; whether it’s a demented orderly or a young woman at rehab, he gets it right.

"You can’t be deep without a surface,” proclaims a cheeky lover in Jonathan Lethem’s You Don’t Love Me Yet, and surface, or in this case, style, is the first thing to jump out at the reader in Nadine Bismuth’s newly translated collection of short stories, Are You Married to a Psychopath? (Just look at the striking title.)