Kids’ Books

How to Be Found

Sixteen-year-old Michie and her best friend (a.k.a. “sister”) Trissa grew up together in the dilapidated duplex their single moms own. Over the past few months however, the girls have drifted apart as they find themselves ... Read More »

October 18, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

We the Sea Turtles: A Collection of Island Stories

By Michelle Kadarusman

Most conversations on climate change are beset with a sense of powerlessness and hopelessness. Saving the planet is a tall order. Where does one even begin? What can ordinary folks do about it? Shouldn’t our ... Read More »

October 16, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

stay up: racism, resistance, and reclaiming Black freedom

By Khodi Dill and Stylo Starr (ill.)

Author and public speaker Khodi Dill’s latest, stay up: racism, resistance, and reclaiming Black freedom, is a book with a purpose: to provide guidance for young racialized people. He employs both his personal experience as ... Read More »

October 11, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

How to Make a Peanut Butter Sandwich in 17 Easy Steps

By Bambi Edlund

Who among us still throws dinner parties to show off our mastery of French cooking techniques, or is even – since the pandemic lockdowns ended – still keeping their sourdough starter alive? Time being once ... Read More »

October 2, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ While You Were Sleeping

By Briana Corr Scott

While You Were Sleeping is a tender rhyming bedtime tale written and illustrated by Briana Corr Scott. Told in the second person, the book captures the simultaneous awe and sleepless toil of caring for a ... Read More »

September 25, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Those Pink Mountain Nights

By Jen Ferguson

Those Pink Mountain Nights is about a pizzeria in Canmore, Alberta. It’s about Berlin, an academic overachiever, Cameron, a high school dropout, and Jessie, a flirtatious rich kid, who all work at Pink Mountain Pizza, ... Read More »

September 18, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix

By Cherie Dimaline

Into the Bright Open, by Métis author Cherie Dimaline, reimagines The Secret Garden through an anti-colonial lens. It is the eighth book in the Remixed Classics series, in which authors from under-represented backgrounds take literary ... Read More »

September 13, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Hans Christian Andersen Lives Next Door

By Cary Fagan and Chelsea O’Byrne (ill.)

Hans Christian Andersen Lives Next Door is a funny and thought-provoking middle-grade novel about the power of stories – especially the ones we tell ourselves. Real life isn’t a fairy tale for Andie Gladman. The ... Read More »

September 11, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Shade Tree

By Suzy Lee and Helen Mixter (trans.)

There are beloved folk tales that are passed down through generations. Something in the story makes them worth retelling over and over again. The Shade Tree, written and illustrated by Suzy Lee, and translated by ... Read More »

September 6, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

One Summer in Vancouver

By Tony Correia

One Summer in Vancouver is a coming out story set against the backdrop of Vancouver’s Gay Games, which were held in 1990. At 17, Tom is struggling to come out – both to himself and ... Read More »

September 4, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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