Seasons Before the War

By Bernice Morgan; Brita Granström (ill.)

“Once upon a time, long, long ago, in a world where the First World War was history and the Second World War was unimaginable …” That’s how Bernice Morgan sets the scene for her new ... Read More »

November 26, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

★ A Grain of Rice

By Nhung N. Tran-Davies

In the 2016 picture book Adrift at Sea: A Vietnamese Boy’s Story of Survival, authors Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch and Tuan Ho tell the story of six-year-old Tuan, who escaped from Vietnam with his mother and ... Read More »

November 1, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Too Young to Escape: A Vietnamese Girls Waits to be Reunited with Her Family

By Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch; Van Ho

November 1, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Hubots: Real-World Robots Inspired by Humans

By Alex Ries (ill.); Helaine Becker

It is in the nature of picture books to be enthusiastic about things (weird creatures, space travel, meeting new people) that fill most grown-ups with anxiety. And Hubots, by Toronto’s Helaine Becker and Australian illustrator ... Read More »

October 29, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Flow Spin Grow: Looking for Patterns in Nature

By Patchen Barss; Todd Stewart (ill.)

Journalist, science writer, and television producer Patchen Barss has written two books. The first, The Erotic Engine, was about how sex and pornography have driven the development of technologies from Gutenberg to the present day. ... Read More »

October 22, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

My First Book of Canadian Birds

By Andrea Miller; Angela Doak (ill.)

Nurtured in childhood, an emergent fascination with birds, animals, and the natural world can last a lifetime. Three new informational picture books foster outdoor curiosity and encourage close inspection for budding birders and naturalists. My ... Read More »

October 4, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Birds from Head to Tail

By Kwanchai Moriya (ill.); Stacey Roderick

October 4, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Robert Bateman: The Boy Who Painted Nature

By Margriet Ruurs; Robert Bateman

October 4, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Go Show the World

By Joe Morse (ill.); Wab Kinew

Wab Kinew – a high-profile politician, honourary witness for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and hip-hop musician – has turned his attention to picture books with Go Show the World, which is built around the ... Read More »

September 5, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Earthrise: Apollo 8 and the Photo That Changed the World

By Christy Lundy (ill.); James Gladstone

“Wow, is that pretty!” seems like an underwhelming way to sum up one of history’s most iconic and mind-expanding moments. But that’s exactly how NASA astronaut Bill Anders characterized the view as planet Earth filled ... Read More »

September 5, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

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Quill and Quire

Seasons Before the War

★ A Grain of Rice

★ Too Young to Escape: A Vietnamese Girls Waits to be Reunited with Her Family

Hubots: Real-World Robots Inspired by Humans

Flow Spin Grow: Looking for Patterns in Nature

My First Book of Canadian Birds

Birds from Head to Tail

Robert Bateman: The Boy Who Painted Nature

Go Show the World

Earthrise: Apollo 8 and the Photo That Changed the World

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