Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation

“Reconciliation begins with you,” says Chief Dr. Robert Joseph of the Gwawaenuk First Nation in Monique Gray Smith’s formidably executed new book, Speaking Our Truth. This simple maxim reinforces the purpose of the titular journey ... Read More »

July 25, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Biometrics: Your Body and the Science of Security

By Ian Turner (ill.); Maria Birmingham

Biometrics: Your Body and the Science of Security offers a fun, futuristic look into the fascinating world of recognition technology. Maria Birmingham, author of A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality: From Alchemy to Avatars and longstanding ... Read More »

June 22, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Birthdays: Beyond Cake and Ice Cream

By Dani Tate-Stratton; Nikki Tate

Birthdays: Beyond Cake and Ice Cream is a book that lives up to its title. Its three chapters explore birthdays on an individual and global level. Salient facts are interwoven with personal anecdotes, making for ... Read More »

May 18, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

Innocent Heroes: Stories of Animals in the First World War

By Sigmund Brouwer

With the country in the midst of sesquicentennial fever, publishers are making an effort to ensure that another important anniversary isn’t overlooked: the centennial of the First World War battle of Vimy Ridge. Three new ... Read More »

April 10, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ A Soldier’s Sketchbook: The Illustrated First World War Diary of R.H. Rabjohn

By John Wilson

April 10, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Vimy Oaks: A Journey to Peace

By Brian Deines (ill.); Linda Granfield

April 10, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Stay Silent: A Refugee’s Escape from Colombia

By Natalie Hyde

Stay Silent is the second book in Clockwise Press’s Arrivals, a series of narrative non-fiction that share the stories of immigrants and refugees. Author Natalie Hyde tells the story of Paola Gomez, a woman from ... Read More »

January 30, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Making Canada Home: How Immigrants Shaped This Country

By Susan Hughes

In a year when immigration to Canada has reached its highest levels since 1971, and as political talk south of the border focuses heavily on stemming the flow of newcomers, Susan Hughes’s latest book for ... Read More »

December 8, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Adrift At Sea: A Vietnamese Boy’s Story of Survival

By Brian Deines (ill.); Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch; Tuan Ho

A new picture book from multiple-award-winning author Marsha Skrypuch and renowned illustrator Brian Deines tells the story of a young boy’s remarkable escape from Vietnam in the early 1980s. The book opens with six-year-old Tuan ... Read More »

December 6, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

All the Dirt: A History of Getting Clean

By Capucine Mazille (ill.); Katherine Ashenburg

For her debut children’s title, Toronto author and journalist Katherine Ashenburg returns to the subject of cleanliness, which she first explored in her 2007 adult non-fiction title, The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History. All ... Read More »

November 1, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

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