Kids’ Books

To Steal from Thieves

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

★ Shark Girl

By Kate Beaton

Shark Girl’s life in the ocean goes swimmingly until she’s caught in a bottom trawl net and is suddenly dragged into troubled waters. Half human (from her powder blue shoulders up to her flowing mane ... Read More »

March 5, 2025 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Every Little Bit Olive Tran

By Phuong Truong

Joyful and celebratory seem like odd descriptors for a book about racism, but author Phuong Truong and artist Christine Wei manage this delicate balance rather deftly in Every Little Bit Olive Tran. The story centres ... Read More »

February 26, 2025 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Miss Matty

By Edeet Ravel

Fran was born to be an actress. After all, she has always been acting in front of everyone, even her best friend Rita – pretending her family isn’t so poor that they can’t afford store-bought ... Read More »

February 19, 2025 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Do Not Turn the Page!

By Jane Blondie and Marcus Cutler (ill.)

Charlie, the narrator of Jane Blondie’s frame-breaking picture book, doesn’t want his readers to turn the book’s pages for self-interested reasons. He knows that every page turned gets him closer to that part of the ... Read More »

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

I Am Métis

By Karen Hourie Ellefson and Leah Dorion (ill.)

Based on Métis author and former teacher Karen Hourie Ellefson’s own experiences growing up, I Am Métis is a picture book closely tied to the perspective of its blue-eyed, white-passing narrator. After classmates ridicule her ... Read More »

February 5, 2025 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

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