November 6, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
In award-winning author Jen Ferguson’s latest contemporary young-adult novel, long-time best friends Molly Norris-Norquay and Tray Lambert depart from their hometown of Edmonton shortly after Molly’s high school graduation. Their destination: the U.S.-Mexico border, to ... Read More »
No typical, unsettling ghosts haunt Vicky Metcalf Award–winning author Kyo Maclear’s latest picture book. The subtle spirit roaming throughout There’s a Ghost in the Garden gently speaks to the enduring nature of memory. The child ... Read More »
October 30, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
All Consuming: Shop Smarter for the Planet by award-winning children’s author Erin Silver reminds us of the inconvenient truths of our modern, disposable society. This new addition to the Orca Think series thoroughly investigates our ... Read More »
October 23, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books
Born in Czechoslovakia, 15-year-old Max Eisen and his family were forcibly removed from their home and deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland in March 1944. Eisen was the only member of his ... Read More »
October 16, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books
Noodles on a Bicycle invites readers to experience the wonder of watching delivery men balance precarious towers of boxed noodles and bowls while cycling through the busy streets of mid-20th-century Tokyo. Author Kyo Maclear tells ... Read More »
October 9, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
What’s in Alanna’s Secret Sauce? by Sarah Jane Conklin and illustrated by Venus Angelica is a picture book in verse that tells the story of nine-year-old Alanna and her Nan, who are looking to make ... Read More »
October 2, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
For Avery, running is the most natural thing in the world. It’s a way for her to exist outside the complexities of her life, to temporarily forget about her mother’s struggles as a newly single ... Read More »
September 25, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
In 2021, Canadian ecologist Suzanne Simard upended the way we think about the natural world with her groundbreaking Finding the Mother Tree. In that book, she explained how trees in forests, even those of different ... Read More »
September 18, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
Inspired by her infant daughter, Guelph, Ontario, artist Lauren Wright Vartanian – an OCAD grad with a specialty in sculpture and textile-based work – decided to use the downtime provided by the COVID-19 pandemic to ... Read More »
September 11, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books
Little by Little: You Can Change the World is the story of how Indigenous activist and speaker Michael Redhead Champagne found his calling. Readers are shown how his years as a child in the foster ... Read More »
September 4, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books