Kids’ Books

★ Red Sky at Night

A curated collection of old-timey weather sayings is artfully brought to life in this exquisite informational picture book. Traditional aphorisms – including “Ring around the moon, rain will come soon” and “When ladybugs swarm, expect ... Read More »

May 14, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Funeral

By Matt James

Many of our experiences with death begin with a phone call. On the very first page of The Funeral, the words “RING RING” emanate from a large apartment building. While the rotary phone, in the ... Read More »

May 10, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Space Adventurer’s Guide: Your Passport to the Coolest Things to See and Do in the Universe

By John Holinaty (ill.); Peter McMahon

Despite the best efforts of people like Chris Hadfield, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and J.J. Abrams, we’ve been living through a bit of a space enthusiasm desert. These days, young people are more focused on the ... Read More »

May 7, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

Mighty Mission Machines: From Rockets to Rovers

By Dave Williams; Loredana Cunti; Theo Krynauw (ill.)

May 7, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Bagel King

By Andrew Larsen; Sandy Nichols (ill.)

Andrew Larsen’s The Bagel King is the endearing tale of a zaida and his grandson Eli, and how they bond over a Sunday ritual of eating bagels: “Warm. Chewy. Salty. Bagels.” Until one day Zaida ... Read More »

May 3, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Journey Forward, A Novella on Reconciliation: When We Play Our Drums, They Sing!

By Richard Van Camp

The two stories that comprise this flipbook from B.C. publisher McKellar & Martin take a measured approach to teaching readers about the history of residential schools and the ongoing legacy of pain they caused, but ... Read More »

April 30, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Journey Forward, A Novella on Reconciliation: Lucy & Lola

By Monique Gray Smith

April 30, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Here So Far Away

By Hadley Dyer

Novels in which a “mature” teen girl falls for a much older guy are nothing new. The standard way of resolving the ill-fated love is that the guy ends up leaving town or dying, thereby ... Read More »

April 23, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Fire Song

By Adam Garnet Jones

In this YA adaptation of his 2015 feature film, Fire Song, Adam Garnet Jones offers up an array of real issues facing people living on reserves in Canada as seen through the eyes of teen ... Read More »

April 23, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Big Water

By Andrea Curtis

On Sept. 14, 1882, the steamship SS Asia sank in a storm on Georgian Bay. One hundred and forty passengers and crew died; the only survivors were two teenagers from Ontario, who spent three days ... Read More »

April 19, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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