September 19, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
It’s My Body! is an exuberant, kid-friendly nonfiction picture-book primer on body positivity. Simple, direct sentences celebrate “ALL KINDS” of bodies and kick-start a convivial conversation about how to be your body’s best friend. Governor ... Read More »
Expertly illustrated in black and white, Lynette Richards’s debut graphic novel tells a fictionalized version of the life of Maggie/Bill Armstrong, an adventurer who defied gender expectations in a quest to do what they loved. ... Read More »
September 14, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Still This Love Goes On and Monique Gray Smith’s I Hope/nipakosêyimon offer parents and teachers excellent options for cheerful, lovingly illustrated Indigenous-authored picture books. They are well suited for reading – or, in ... Read More »
September 12, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Still This Love Goes On and Monique Gray Smith’s I Hope/nipakosêyimon offer parents and teachers excellent options for cheerful, lovingly illustrated Indigenous-authored picture books. They are well suited for reading – or, in ... Read More »
September 12, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
Be it marble run or Mousetrap, what kid doesn’t love the Rube Goldberg–esque twists and turns of a moving puzzle? In veteran kidlit writer Kevin Sylvester’s newest offering, Apartment 713, the Regency, the apartment building ... Read More »
September 7, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Many South Asian Canadians grew up enthralled with the emotional stakes, the larger-than-life stories, and the space- and time-transcending connections of Bollywood films. Sabina Khan’s latest novel, which spotlights fiercely independent South Asian Muslim girls ... Read More »
September 6, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Joining a growing circle of celebratory and educational picture books about the human body (including Tyler Feder’s exemplary Bodies Are Cool) is Nancy Vo’s Boobies. Vo, whom many might recognize as the author-illustrator of The ... Read More »
August 29, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
A picture book collaboration between Iqaluit-based writer Laura Deal and Toronto illustrator Emma Pedersen celebrates the beauty of the tundra and the power of our surroundings to bring us down or cheer us up. Pedersen’s ... Read More »
August 22, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
Warren is heading out with his older cousin Matthew and their Auntie to pick sweetgrass, as it is one of the sacred medicines used as an offering or to smudge. Since this is his ... Read More »
August 15, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
Altuna “Tuna” Kashmir Rashad is a budding screenwriter and children’s swimming instructor living in Ontario, California, who’s on a quest to turn her life into a screenplay – complete with meet-cutes, fun and games, and ... Read More »
August 8, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books