Kids’ Books

★ The Most Magnificent Team

The latest entry in author/illustrator Ashley Spires’s classroom favourite Most Magnificent series tackles another tricky aspect of the creative process – building constructive collaborations. Full of ideas, the inventive pigtailed girl in her signature polka ... Read More »

May 21, 2025 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Spirit Service

By Sarena Nanua and Sasha Nanua

Four friends team up to form a business that helps spirits pass on to the afterlife peacefully in this middle grade novel that will indulge paranormal fancies, and shows promise to be the start of ... Read More »

May 14, 2025 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Dreaming Alongside

By Monique Gray Smith and Nicole Neidhardt (ill.)

Dreaming Alongside is a sumptuous picture book that invites young readers to follow dragonfly on an adventure in dreaming. With visits to both urban and natural settings, readers learn about taking inspiration from their surroundings. ... Read More »

May 7, 2025 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

First Times: Short Stories about Sex

By Karine Glorieux (ed.) and Shelley Tanaka (trans.)

First Times: Short Stories about Sex is an anthology that details first sexual experiences and awakenings. Ranging from first solo sexual explorations to first times with a partner, this collection aims to combat the often ... Read More »

April 30, 2025 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

The Language of the Stars: The Scientific Story of a Few Billion Years in a Few Hundred Pages

By Nathan Hellner-Mestelman

In his 2024 nonfiction debut, Cosmic Wonder, uber-precocious B.C. high-schooler Nathan Hellner-Mestelman attempted to explain, as the subtitle put it, “our place in the epic story of the universe.” Released barely a year later, Hellner-Mestelman’s ... Read More »

April 23, 2025 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

To Steal from Thieves

By M.K. Lobb

As wealthy Londoners await the grand opening of the Great Exhibition of 1851 in the new Crystal Palace, Zaria Mendoza is at her work table in the city’s slums completing one of her late father’s ... Read More »

April 16, 2025 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Fabulous Edweena

By Edwin Dumont and Melissa Cho (ill.)

The Fabulous Edweena, written by Edwin Dumont and illustrated by Melissa Cho, is a heartening, picture-book introduction to drag. A young boy, Edwin, has been practising and waiting all year for a school figure skating competition. While ... Read More »

April 9, 2025 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Hugs Are (Not) for Everybody

By Ella Russell and Udayana Lugo (ill.)

For many of us, hugs are part of everyday life. We hug our family, our friends, our pets, and depending on the circumstances, we even hug people we just met. In North American society, this ... Read More »

April 2, 2025 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Chidori: A Story of One Thousand Birds

By Jennifer Maruno and Miki Sato (ill.)

In March 2011, a major earthquake struck off the coast of northeastern Japan resulting in a series of tsunami waves that brought devastation – with more than 18,000 people killed and disappeared – across the ... Read More »

March 26, 2025 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

The Seaweed Blanket

By Nancy Deas and Mike Deas (ill.)

Two young girls, Maren and Ula, visit their aunt by the seaside. They are bored and lonely, stuck indoors as they take care of the needs of their aunt, who seems confined to bed and ... Read More »

March 12, 2025 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

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