Kids’ Books

Noodles on a Bicycle

Noodles on a Bicycle invites readers to experience the wonder of watching delivery men balance precarious towers of boxed noodles and bowls while cycling through the busy streets of mid-20th-century Tokyo. Author Kyo Maclear tells ... Read More »

October 9, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

What’s in Alanna’s Secret Sauce?

By Sarah Jane Conklin and Venus Angelica (ill.)

What’s in Alanna’s Secret Sauce? by Sarah Jane Conklin and illustrated by Venus Angelica is a picture book in verse that tells the story of nine-year-old Alanna and her Nan, who are looking to make ... Read More »

October 2, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

The Unfinished

By Cheryl Isaacs

For Avery, running is the most natural thing in the world. It’s a way for her to exist outside the complexities of her life, to temporarily forget about her mother’s struggles as a newly single ... Read More »

September 25, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Mother Aspen

By Annette LeBox and Crystal Smith (ill.)

In 2021, Canadian ecologist Suzanne Simard upended the way we think about the natural world with her groundbreaking Finding the Mother Tree. In that book, she explained how trees in forests, even those of different ... Read More »

September 18, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Stitching Science: Exploring Science from A–Z

By Lauren Wright Vartanian and Keltie Thomas

Inspired by her infant daughter, Guelph, Ontario, artist Lauren Wright Vartanian – an OCAD grad with a specialty in sculpture and textile-based work – decided to use the downtime provided by the COVID-19 pandemic to ... Read More »

September 11, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

Little by Little: You Can Change the World

By Sonya Ballantyne and Rhael McGregor (ill.); Toben Racicot

Little by Little: You Can Change the World is the story of how Indigenous activist and speaker Michael Redhead Champagne found his calling. Readers are shown how his years as a child in the foster ... Read More »

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

Dad, I Miss You

By Nadia Sammurtok and Simji Park (ill.)

Dad, I Miss You, written by Inuit author and educator Nadia Sammurtok, is an emotional story about a young boy taken from his family and placed in a residential school. Told through the internal monologues ... Read More »

August 28, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ The Outsmarters

By Deborah Ellis

Governor General’s Award–winning author Deborah Ellis returns with a terrific middle-grade novel set in contemporary Toronto. Written in first-person narrative, the book follows 12-year-old Kate Grey after she is suspended from school for behavioural issues. ... Read More »

August 21, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Sea Snooze

By Sarabeth Holden and Emma Pedersen (ill.)

Convincing children to get ready for bed can be an adventure on its own, but the mother in Sea Snooze – also our narrator – is halfway there when the book begins. This richly illustrated ... Read More »

August 14, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Killing Shakespeare

By Koom Kankesan

Killing Shakespeare, the new young adult novel from Toronto writer and teacher Koom Kankesan, begins with a compelling premise: if presented with the opportunity to go back in time, what would three contemporary Scarborough teenagers ... Read More »

August 7, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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