Kids’ Books

★ Every Little Bit Olive Tran

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

The Shape of Lost Things

By Sarah Everett

Four years ago, 12-year-old Skye’s universe shattered. Her older brother, Finn, was kidnapped by their father and has been missing ever since. In Finn’s absence, Skye is forced to celebrate his “MIA” birthdays with her ... Read More »

December 11, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Fledgling: The Keeper’s Records of Revolution

By S.K. Ali

Raisa Freelund, daughter of the Chief Guardian of Upper Earth, is not naive enough to think she lives in a utopia. Her scalplink floods her mind with news of imminent threats of attack from Lower ... Read More »

December 4, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

I Wonder About Worlds: Discovering Planets and Exoplanets

By James Gladstone and Yaara Eshet (ill.)

I Wonder About Worlds: Discovering Planets and Exoplanets combines storytelling and science in a picture book that encourages re-reading. Author James Gladstone balances a lyrical exploration of space – both of our own solar system ... Read More »

December 4, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Genocide

By Jane Springer and Santiago Solís (ill.)

The newly revised and expanded Genocide, a nonfiction book for young adults, was first published in 2006. The book traces the history of genocides around the world (seven of which are ongoing), documenting the specific ... Read More »

November 27, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

Cave-In

By Pam Withers

In Pam Withers’s eco-adventure novel Cave-In, 16-year-old Hudson Greer dreams of becoming world-famous for discovering a passageway between two cave systems, nicknamed the Castle and the Dungeon. He also plans to beat his ex-caving partner ... Read More »

November 20, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

Barnaby Unboxed!

By The Fan Brothers

Four years after the release of The Barnabus Project, the Fan Brothers have returned with another look into the fantastical and slightly dystopian world of Perfect Pets, an underground factory that produces genetically engineered pets. ... Read More »

November 13, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

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