Kids’ Books

I Hope/nipakosêyimon

By Monique Gray Smith and Gabrielle Grimard (ill.); Dolores Greyeyes Sand (trans.)

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

Apartment 713

By Kevin Sylvester

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

Meet Me in Mumbai

By Sabina Khan

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

★ Boobies

By Nancy Vo

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

The Ugly Place

By Laura Deal and Emma Pedersen (ill.)

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

Sweetgrass

By Theresa Meuse and Jessica Jerome (ill.)

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

The Signs and Wonders of Tuna Rashad

By Natasha Deen

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

★ Majagalee: The Language of Seasons

By Shawna Davis and Toonasa Jordana Luggi (photog.)

Majagalee: The Language of Seasons is a picture book that explores from a Gitksan perspective the four seasons on the northwest coast of what is currently British Columbia. Along with the contributions by Wet’suwet’en and ... Read More »

August 2, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

What the Dog Knows

By Sylvia McNicoll

What the Dog Knows is a middle-grade novel about a girl and her dog. The twist is that they are dead. That is, they were dead. Within the first few pages, Naomi, an ordinary 13-year-old, ... Read More »

July 26, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ My Uncle Is Coming Tomorrow/Mañana viene mi tío

By Sebastián Santana Camargo and Elisa Amado (trans.)

My Uncle Is Coming Tomorrow/Mañana viene mi tío is an incisive English–Spanish dual-language picture book for older readers, dedicated to “those who, because of forced disappearances, were never able to come.” Waiting by a closed ... Read More »

July 19, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

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