Kids’ Books

Trending: How and Why Stuff Gets Popular

By Kira Vermond and Clayton Hanmer (ill.)

Hula Hoops, Cabbage Patch Kids, and pet rocks are often dismissed as nothing more than silly, fleeting frivolities. But in the new non-fiction book Trending: How and Why Stuff Gets Popular, Norma Fleck Award–winning author ... Read More »

March 5, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

Nattiq and the Land of Statues

By Barbara Landry and Martha Kyak (ill.)

The stakes of environmental-science books for kids have risen dramatically as climate change hurtles toward the point of no return. Four new titles, running the gamut from informational to fictional, celebrate the beauty of trees ... Read More »

March 2, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Peter and the Tree Children

By Peter Wohlleben and Cale Atkinson (ill.); Jane Billinghurst (trans.)

March 2, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

A Forest in the City

By Andrea Curtis and Pierre Pratt (ill.)

March 2, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

The Boreal Forest

By L.E. Carmichael and Josée Bisaillon (ill.)

March 2, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ My Long List of Impossible Things

By Michelle Barker

Vladimir Nabokov advised fiction writers to put their characters up a tree and then throw rocks at them. In the edgy and suspenseful My Long List of Impossible Things, novelist Michelle Barker’s tree is tall ... Read More »

February 13, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Tickled Pink: How Friendship Washes the World with Color

By Andrée Poulin and Lucile Danis Drouot (ill.)

Filippo the flamingo just wants to play. But every time he asks Zac the zebra and Poncho the panda if he can join them, they come up with a new excuse. “You’re too pink,” says ... Read More »

February 10, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Wildfire

By Carrie Mac

This powerful new novel by Vancouver writer Carrie Mac begins in media res, deep in a Pacific Northwest forest. Two teenagers, Annie and Pete, are in a tent with a forest fire approaching. Annie is ... Read More »

February 6, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Until Niagara Falls

By Jennifer Maruno

In two very different but affecting middle-grade novels, we learn about the complicated inner lives of girls as they confront their fears, bullies, and the uncertainties of growing up. Author and educator Jennifer Maruno (When ... Read More »

February 3, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books