January 13, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books, Picture Books
Two non-fiction picture books offer crash courses in biology and meteorology by way of unconventional instructors. Ellie, a skin cell living on the bum of a Boston terrier, delivers an exuberant ... Read More »
Two non-fiction picture books offer crash courses in biology and meteorology by way of unconventional instructors. Ellie, a skin cell living on the bum of a Boston terrier, delivers an exuberant ... Read More »
January 13, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books, Picture Books
With increasing news of youth-related gun violence, heists, hit and runs, gang activity, sexual assaults, and stabbings – in the past year alone – the personal accounts in My Story Starts Here may be the ... Read More »
December 19, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books
The vast and powerful Yellow River is often called the mother river of China. It is also the subject of a famous musical with lyrics by militant poet Guang Weiran. In this non-fiction picture book, ... Read More »
November 21, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books
The new non-fiction book Our Future was released in the same month as the wave of global climate strikes inspired by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg; but in this roundup of modern youth activists – who ... Read More »
November 18, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books
Death is an inevitability. But according to this topical read, what is up for considerable debate is “who and what determines when and how we die.” Choosing to Live, Choosing to Die pulls back the ... Read More »
October 21, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books
Highrise is an exceptional guided tour of sky-reaching residential structures around the globe, adapted from the National Film Board of Canada’s cutting-edge web documentary of the same name. As a way to introduce the project, ... Read More »
August 29, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books
To say that introducing young children to complex social justice issues – such as those involving LGBTQ+ refugees – is a challenge would be an understatement. But Robin Stevenson’s new picture book manages to present ... Read More »
August 26, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books
Curious kids intuitively understand that science begins with questions. Two new non-fiction books both encourage and support insatiable inquisitiveness and the voracious need to know. Fifty questions posed by young visitors to the Ontario Science ... Read More »
July 29, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books
Curious kids intuitively understand that science begins with questions. Two new non-fiction books both encourage and support insatiable inquisitiveness and the voracious need to know. Fifty questions posed by young visitors to the Ontario Science ... Read More »
July 29, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books