November 1, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Curtis Campbell’s debut, Dragging Mason County, is a witty and charming young adult novel that encourages learning to be kinder to oneself and others. Peter Thompkin is part of a small group of queer kids ... Read More »
Métis author Arnolda Dufour Bowes’s lighthearted collection of stories, Maggie Lou, Firefox, documents the misadventures of a creative, outspoken 12-year-old. Maggie Lou is always willing to get into trouble – and to drag her younger ... Read More »
October 30, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
In this warm and inviting picture book, an apartment building bustles with bread–making activity. The sweet smell of collaboration is in the air as families from many different cultures head to their kitchens, roll up ... Read More »
October 25, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
A small girl in Alberta spends time with her grandmother whom she refers to in Blackfoot as Naaahsa. Her grandmother is an artist and together they use their imaginations to create – beading, cooking, storytelling, ... Read More »
October 23, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
Sixteen-year-old Michie and her best friend (a.k.a. “sister”) Trissa grew up together in the dilapidated duplex their single moms own. Over the past few months however, the girls have drifted apart as they find themselves ... Read More »
October 18, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Most conversations on climate change are beset with a sense of powerlessness and hopelessness. Saving the planet is a tall order. Where does one even begin? What can ordinary folks do about it? Shouldn’t our ... Read More »
October 16, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Author and public speaker Khodi Dill’s latest, stay up: racism, resistance, and reclaiming Black freedom, is a book with a purpose: to provide guidance for young racialized people. He employs both his personal experience as ... Read More »
October 11, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books
Who among us still throws dinner parties to show off our mastery of French cooking techniques, or is even – since the pandemic lockdowns ended – still keeping their sourdough starter alive? Time being once ... Read More »
October 2, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
While You Were Sleeping is a tender rhyming bedtime tale written and illustrated by Briana Corr Scott. Told in the second person, the book captures the simultaneous awe and sleepless toil of caring for a ... Read More »
September 25, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
Those Pink Mountain Nights is about a pizzeria in Canmore, Alberta. It’s about Berlin, an academic overachiever, Cameron, a high school dropout, and Jessie, a flirtatious rich kid, who all work at Pink Mountain Pizza, ... Read More »
September 18, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books