Kids’ Books

★ There’s a Ghost in the Garden

No typical, unsettling ghosts haunt Vicky Metcalf Award–winning author Kyo Maclear’s latest picture book. The subtle spirit roaming throughout There’s a Ghost in the Garden gently speaks to the enduring nature of memory. The child ... Read More »

October 30, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

All Consuming: Shop Smarter for the Planet

By Erin Silver and Suharu Ogawa (ill.)

All Consuming: Shop Smarter for the Planet by award-winning children’s author Erin Silver reminds us of the inconvenient truths of our modern, disposable society. This new addition to the Orca Think series thoroughly investigates our ... Read More »

October 23, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

By Chance Alone: The Young Readers’ Edition

By Max Eisen and Kathy Kacer

Born in Czechoslovakia, 15-year-old Max Eisen and his family were forcibly removed from their home and deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland in March 1944. Eisen was the only member of his ... Read More »

October 16, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

Noodles on a Bicycle

By Kyo Maclear and Gracey Zhang (ill.)

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

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