nimag
-
Book Reviews100 Cupboards: the Graphic Novel
by N.D. Wilson illustrated by Forrest Dickison2026 / 240 pagesRating: GREAT When Henry York’s parents mysteriously disappear, the 12-year-old is sent to live with his…
-
Book ReviewsOn the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness: the Graphic Novel
by Andrew Peterson2026 / 224 pagesRating: Great The Wingfeather Saga is getting the graphic novel treatment and the first in the series is both more…
-
Book ReviewsThe Boxcar Children Graphic Novel
by Gertrude Chandler Warneradapted by Meika Hashimoto2026 / 176 pagesRating: GOOD/Great/Give The Boxcar Children first appeared back in 1924, about Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny, four…
-
Book ReviewsRun and Hide: How Jewish youth escaped the Holocaust
by Don Brown 2023 / 190 pages Rating: Great Don Brown gives us a new wrinkle on a story we thought we already knew. When…
-
Adult biographiesThe Cost of My Faith
by Jack Phillips 2021 / 199 pages RATING: Great Twenty seconds. And one decision. That’s all it took to change my life forever. So begins…
-
DramaCitizen Kane
Drama 1941 / 119 minutes Rating: 7/10 It’s a mystery with a moral. Often called the greatest film ever made, Citizen Kane is a story told…
-
AnimatedThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Animated / Family 2026 / 97 minutes Rating: 6/10 What they say about sequels never being as good as the original bears out here. Plumbers…
-
Book ReviewsThe Plot Chickens
by Mary Jane and Herm Auch 2010 / 32 pages Rating: Good Henrietta the chicken can read and she wants to write. And though she…
-
Book ReviewsThe girl who never made mistakes
by Mark Pett and Gary Rubinstein 2011 / 30 pages Beatrice, “The Girl Who Never Makes Mistakes,” doesn’t want to go skating with her friends,…
-
Book ReviewsDogger
by Shirley Hughes 1977 / 32 pages Rating: GIFT There are a lot of beautifully drawn children’s books, but not nearly as many that tell…
-
Adult non-fictionDarwin’s Sandcastle
Evolution’s Failure in the Light of Scripture and the Scientific Evidence by Gordon Wilson 2023 / 222 pages In the protective bubble of my Christian high…
-
Adult biographiesSeeking Allah, Finding Jesus
by Nabeel Qureshi 2014 / 384 pages RATING: Great Nabeel Qureshi (1983-2017) was a Pakistani-American who was raised as a devout follower of the peaceful…
-
DramaAnastasia
Drama / Mystery 1956 / 105 min Rating: 7/10 In 1918 Communist revolutionaries murdered the Czar and his family, and for years afterwards rumors persisted…
-
DocumentaryThe Homeschool Awakening
Documentary 2022 / 95 minutes Rating: 8/10 A comic popped up in my social media feed last month, that perfectly summed up this documentary. It…
-
Church historyThere was a man: Ulrich Zwingli
“Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them.” – Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). “Start children…
-
AnimatedUp
Family 2009 / 96 min Rating: 9/10 Boy meets girl, they fall in love, get married, make plans for an adventurous trip, life gets in…
-
AnimatedWall-E
Animated / Dystopian / Family 2008 / 98 min Rating: 9/10 Wall-E is a small robot with a big job – he has to tidy…
-
FamilyIvanhoe
Drama / Adventure 1952 / 107 minutes Rating: 8/10 If you love the story of Robin Hood, this is the sequel (or maybe prequel) that…
-
AnimatedChristmas Carol: the movie
Animated 2001 / 81 minutes Rating: 7/10 Dickens’ classic tale gets a child-friendly brush up, with a couple of cute mice companions added to the…
-
DramaMr. Deeds Goes to Town
Drama/Romance 115 min / 1936 Rating: 8/10 Frank Capra is best known for his 1946 hit It’s a Wonderful Life. But a decade earlier he…
-
Culture ClashesWhich conspiracies are true?
A quick survey of X or the top YouTube-influencer-content on the Right reveals that conspiracy theories have never been so widely spread or fervently believed….
-
DramaThey were expendable
Drama / War 1945 / 135 minutes RATING: 7/10 John Wayne stars as one of the WWII naval officers intent on proving that small, fast…
-
AnimatedFinding Nemo
Animated / Family 2003 / 100 minutes RATING: 8/10 This is an ocean-crossing epic, with a father willing to travel to the ends of the…
-
DramaThe Count of Monte Cristo
Drama 1934 / 107 minutes RATING: 8/10 This is based on the story by Alexander Dumas (who also authored The Three Musketeers), and while it…
-
NewsHundreds of Reformed Christians gathered on Parliament Hill to protest Bill C-9
Last week, ARPA Canada hosted a rally on Parliament Hill calling on the federal government to halt Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act. Despite cold…
-
DramaSeasons of the Heart
Drama / Tearjerker 2003 / 99 min RATING: 7/10 On the trek west to settle their own section of the American plains, Jed and Martha…
-
FamilyThe Black Arrow
Drama / Family 1948 / 76 minutes Rating: 7/10 Sir Richard Shelton is a young knight returning from three years away fighting in the latest…
-
FamilySnuf de Hond in Oorlogstijd (Sniff the Dog in Wartime)
Drama / Family 2008 / 95 minutes RATING: 8/10 If you came to this review as a huge fan of the Piet Prins’ Scout series,…
-
DramaBad Day at Black Rock
Drama 1955 / 81 minutes Rating: 8/10 John J. Macreedy wasn’t looking to start anything. But when he steps off the train into a one-road…
-
DramaBeyond the blackboard
Drama / true story 2011 / 95 minutes RATING: 8/10 This is different sort of Hallmark – no royalty, no baking of any kind, and…
-
Christian educationWhere has all the creativity gone?
“Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?” That was the question asked by a recent Atlantic article about the sheer number of prequels, sequels, remakes, and expanding…
-
Adult fictionSincerely, Stoneheart
by Emily Wilson Hussem 2025 / 240 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Gift I can’t find my car keys! Can you relate to this panicked searching? If you don’t…
-
DramaSight
Drama 2024 / 103 minutes RATING: 8/10 Sight is the remarkable true story of driven doctor Ming Wang, who has used his exceptional talents to…
-
DramaChildren of Heaven
Iranian / Drama 1997 / 88 minutes RATING: 7/10 When nine-year-old Ali loses his little sister Zahra’s shoes, the two siblings decide to keep the…
-
AnimatedChicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Animated 2023 / 101 minutes RATING: 8/10 Twenty-three years ago, Rocky and Ginger were trying to break out – they had to get off their…
-
DocumentaryGender Transformation: the untold realities
Docudrama 85 minutes / 2023 Rating: 8/10 If there are two things this film confirmed for me, it is: Parents need to be our children’s…
-
MusicMusic worth watching: a top 10
The only rules for how these videos were selected were that: no band could get more than one entry, and this specific song had to…
-
FamilyThe Court Jester
Musical comedy/Spoof 1956 / 101 min Rating: 8/10 In medieval England, the crown has been usurped, and the only surviving heir to the throne is…
-
DocumentaryKeep and Bear: the movie
Documentary 2017 / 77 minutes RATING: 7/10 Darren Doane is best known for Collision, about debates between pastor Douglas Wilson and atheist Christopher Hitchens, and…
-
Book ReviewsAkimbo and the Lions
by Alexander McCall Smith 1992 / 66 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Alexander McCall Smith is best known as the author of the The No. 1 Ladies’…
-
Book ReviewsBad Badger
by Maryrose Wood 2024 / 184 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give This was a wonderfully strange book that left me wondering where it was going to go next….
-
AnimatedThe Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (1979)
Animated / Children 1979 / 95 minutes RATING: 7/10 This is the oldest surviving film version of C.S. Lewis’s famous classic. It is absolutely fascinating…
-
FamilyThe Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Family / Drama 2005 / 125 minutes Rating: 8/10 For those who have not read the C.S. Lewis book of the same name, this takes…
-
AnimatedHorton Hears a Who! (1970)
Animated / Family 1970 / 30 minutes Rating: 7/10 Based on the Dr. Seuss classic picture book of the same name, this is the story…
-
DramaLord Jeff
Drama / Black & White / Family 1938 / 85 minutes RATING: 8/10 This is a fantastic film… and a hard sell for any modern…
-
Adult non-fictionTransgender to Transformed
by Laura Perry 2019 / 192 pages This may not be a book for everyone. It’s a hard-hitting, at times overly graphic, account of one…
-
Book ReviewsSleuth Family Robinson: fighting evil around the world
by Christopher P.N. Maselli 2025 / 160 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Gift The Robinsons are an undercover spy family working for the UK. When someone hacks the British…
-
Book ReviewsThe God Proofs: How Science Points to YOUR Creator
by Douglas Ell 2024 / 207 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift A blue square with legs, arms eyeballs and mouth, wants to prove to his red rectangle…
-
Book ReviewsPearl
by Sherri L. Smith and Christine Norrie 2024 / 144 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give This is a very different slice of World War II history. Amy is…
-
Book listsDemi’s fresh folk tales
Demi (1942- ) is the nickname that Charlotte Dumaresq Hunt’s father gave her as a child because she was half the size of her sister….
-
Adult non-fictionDigital Liturgies
Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age (with study questions) by Samuel D. James 2023 / 184 pages As I read Digital Liturgies, I kept…
-
DramaLove on a limb
Drama / Romance 2016, 84 minutes RATING: 7/10 Amy Roarke knows just about everyone in Ample Hills because she’s gotten them all to sign her…
-
DramaGold Rush
Comedy / Silent (sort of) 1925 / 96 min RATING: 7/10 It’s been 100 years now since Charlie Chaplin crafted his most famous film. He…
-
AnimatedWallace and Gromit: vengeance most fowl
Animated 2024 / 79 minutes RATING: 8/10 The penguin is back! Feathers McGraw has been sent to jail – or, rather, the Zoo – as…
-
FamilyBelle and Sebastian
Drama 2013 / 99 minutes Rating: 8/10 In the middle of World War II, Sebastian, a seven-year-old orphan, lives with a grandfather figure, César, high…
-
Book ReviewsSir Ladybug (3 books)
by Corey R. Tabor 2022 / 68 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Gift Pell is a roly-poly bug with a mission: he wants everyone to know just how important…
-
Book ReviewsSurvival Scout: lost in the mountains
by Maxwell Eaton III 2023 / 144 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Gift Scout and her big brother have gone on a four-day backpacking trip in the mountains, but…
-
Assorted6 on Anxiety
“I have anxiety.” How often do we hear this phrase nowadays? And most of us can relate to it. There’s so much to be anxious…
-
Movie listsAdults, why not try a cinematic time travel experiment?
Here’s an idea for your movie nights going forward – why not watch a standout movie or two from each decade? It’s not that easy…
-
DramaSaboteur
Drama / Mystery 1942 / 109 minutes RATING: 7/10 This is World War II as seen from the other side of the ocean. Barry Kane…
-
Movie listsTen great movies for a girls’ night in
Sometimes there’s nothing like gathering a few girlfriends, breaking out the ice cream (we won’t tell), and settling in for a good flick. Here are…
-
DramaRoman Holiday
Comedy 1953 / 118 minutes RATING: 8/10 Princess Ann is on a tour of Europe, and the masses can’t get enough of her. It’s no…
-
Book listsThe best of TOON Books for young readers (18)
TOON Books don’t have much in common with each other besides their younger target audience. As the story is told, the founding publisher, Françoise Mouly,…
-
Movie listsClassic movies for a “date night in”
Fall is here, and it could be just the night to cozy up with that special someone and a great movie. Here are five of…
-
Book ReviewsMarley’s Ghost
by Charles Dickens adapted by Harvey Kurtzman, Josh O’Neill, and Shannon Wheeler illustrated by Gideon Kendall 2017 / 129 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift This is a…
-
FamilyTwelve
Family / Sports 2019 / 92 minutes RATING: 7/10 Kyle Cooke is an 11-year-old baseball prodigy who’s always the best kid on the field. When…
-
Movie listsNot-quite-Jane-Austen movies to love
Maybe you loved all five and a half hours of the BBC classic Pride and Prejudice; maybe the more recent, and much shorter, Hollywood version…
-
InternetOn becoming tech-savvy Christians
Technology changes so quickly that we can become bewildered over what to think about all the new products, services and platforms that appear and disappear….
-
DramaUnleashing Mr. Darcy
Drama / Romance 2016 / 84 minutes Rating: 7/10 My favorite movie of all time is a modern-day Mormon-produced Pride and Prejudice update. So, I…
-
Book listsAmy Krouse Rosenthal: the Ginger Rogers of children’s lit
Amy Krouse Rosenthal (1965-2017) was a prolific children’s picture book author, crafting more than 30 in just a dozen years. Together with illustrator Tom Lichtenheld,…
-
Book listsMo Willems: so many to choose from!
Mo Willems might be the new Dr. Seuss, simply the most prolific and best known picture book author of this generation. With 70 (or so)…
-
Book ReviewsBluffton
My summer with Buster Keaton by Matt Phelan 2013 / 240 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Gift Before there were silent films, there was vaudeville. Pay your nickel and…
-
Book ReviewsAnt Story
by Jay Hosler 2024 / 158 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Gift This is as fascinating and creepy a comic about ants as you’re likely to read. Ant Story…
-
Book ReviewsMaker Comics: Survive in the Outdoors
by Mike Lawrence 2021 / 123 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift When mom and dad go off on a trip on their ownsome, Sophia and Alonso are…
-
Book ReviewsStealing Home
by J. Torres and David Namisato 2021 / 112 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift During World War II, after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Canada rounded up Japanese…
-
Book listsKeiko Kasza: All about cartoon critters
Author and illustrator Keiko Kasza was born in Japan and moved to the US for college only to meet and marry an American and then…
-
Book ReviewsShackleton: Antarctic Odyssey
by Nick Bertozzi 2014 / 125 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton was obsessed with reaching the South Pole. He tried to be the…
-
Book ReviewsLittle Robot
by Ben Hatke 136 pages / 2015 Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift This is one of those little-girl-meets-little-robot, little-girl-loses-little-robot, little-girl-kicks-some-big-robot-tushy-to-save-little-robot stories. What sets it apart from all the…
-
Book ReviewsBabble! And how punctuation saved it
by Caroline Adderson illustrated by Roman Muradov 2022 / 72 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give In the village of Babble no one knows what punctuation is which means…
-
FamilyMy friend Flicka
Family 1943 / 89 minutes Rating: 7/10 All Ken wants is a colt of his own, and seeing as his dad raises horses, that doesn’t…
-
AnimatedPAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
Animated / Children 2023 / 87 minutes Rating: 8/10 This sequel to 2021’s PAW Patrol: The Movie is bigger, maybe better, and certainly more intense. This…
-
Book listsMr Putter & Tabby: 25 sweet stories
by Cynthia Rylant illustrated by Arthur Howard 44 pages / 1994-2016 Rating: Good/Great/GIFT It’s always fun to find a children’s book that is interesting enough…
-
Book ReviewsGod’s Daring Dozen: A Minor Prophet Series
by John Brown and Brian Wright Illustrated by Lisa Flanagan 2021 / 40 pages each Christian Focus Publications Rating: GOOD/Great/Give I’ve never been a fan of…
-
Internet…the Internet can pervert anything
**** Warning: the following addresses pornography and sexual content Born in 1998, I grew up in the generation when the iPod Touch and cellphones were…
-
AnimatedThe William Tyndale Story
Animated 32 min. / 2005 Rating: 6/10 “The Torchlighters” is a series of animated films created by Voice of the Martyrs to teach children from…
-
Book ReviewsPea, Bee, & Jay #1: stuck together (3 books)
by Brian “Smitty” Smith 2020 / 64 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Gift A bite-sized vegetable, a bug, and a bird wouldn’t seem the most likely of friends, but…
-
Book ReviewsSir Badalot and the Cranky Danky Dragon
by Rachel Jankovic Illustrated by Forrest Dickison 32 pages / 2022 Rating: GOOD/Great/Give “Now this cranky danky dragon Liked to drink a dragon whine That he…
-
Movie ReviewsThe Richard Wumbrand Story
Animated / Family 30 minutes / 2008 Rating: 6/10 I knew of Richard Wurmbrand as the man who founded Voice of the Martyrs, an advocacy…
-
PoliticsThere is no neutrality so will the State be secular or Christian?
When thinking about political issues, it is important to understand that every society is based on some sort of worldview or philosophy. There is no…
-
Adult non-fictionCounterfeit Gods
by Timothy Keller 2009 / 240 pages John Calvin once said, “The human heart is an idol factory. ” It makes sense that God’s prohibition of…
-
DocumentaryWings of an Eagle – A Musician’s Journey into America
Documentary 98 minutes / 2017 RATING: 8/10 Winnipeg’s favorite singer-songwriter Steve Bell gets his own documentary. Bell’s been a traveling man for decades, crisscrossing the…
-
Book ReviewsAllergic
by Megan Wagner Lloyd illustrated by Michelle Mee Nutter 240 pages / 2021 Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift It’s Maggie’s 10th birthday and she’s finally going to get…
-
AnimatedThe Way Things Work
Animated / TV series / Family 2001 / 300+ minutes (26 episodes) RATING: 9/10 This educational series takes place on a small island in which…
-
FamilyThe Newtons’ Workshop
Children’s TV series 1997 / 226 minutes Rating: 7/10 The stars of this children’s “edutainment” show are most certainly Grandma and Grandpa Newton, who have…
-
Adult non-fictionEconomics in One Lesson
by Henry Hazlitt 1946 / 193 pages Universal basic income, a four-day work week, and government-funded daycare are just a few big-ticket proposals that are…
-
InternetGoogle or God? Who are we turning to for guidance?
This article is being shared, with permission, from Clarion, “a biweekly magazine aimed at servicing families and congregations in the federation of Canadian Reformed Churches.” You…
-
Adult non-fictionThe Political Consequences of Unbelief: a review of Groen van Prinsterer’s “Unbelief and Revolution”
Unbelief and Revolution by Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer translated by Harry Van Dyke 1847/2018 / 280 pages As explained in the Encyclopedia Britannica, “Revolution, in…
-
DramaA Vow to Cherish
Drama / Christian 1999 / 84 minutes RATING: 8/10 John and Ellen Brighton are a 50-something couple living a blessed life. They have two children,…
-
Book ReviewsDon’t let the Pigeon drive the bus!
by Mo Willems 2003 / 40 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Pigeon desperately wants to drive the bus. But the bus driver, who has to leave for…
-
AnimatedA Show About Anthem Lights
TV series / Comedy / Animated 2022- / 12 min x 20 episodes RATING: 7/10 Anthem Lights is a real-life Christian pop group – vocal…