Kids’ Books

Love Is Love

Navigating adolescence, testing your boundaries, and figuring out who you are is hard. For LGBTQ+ teens, it’s even more difficult, and potentially much more dangerous. Love Is Love and Rough Patch are two books that ... Read More »

June 19, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Rough Patch

By Nicole Markotic

June 19, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Gold Leaf

By Kirsten Hall; Matthew Forsythe (ill.)

For centuries, authors of fables have invited animals into the human realm to point out the errors of our ways. In these days so fraught with human foolishness, it makes sense that writers and artists ... Read More »

June 19, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Fog

By Kenard Pak (ill.); Kyo Maclear

June 19, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

Carson Crosses Canada

By Kass Reich (ill.); Linda Bailey

Among new books celebrating Canada’s sesquicentennial are two children’s titles with a focus on geography. Both give readers a sense of the different landforms and attractions that characterize our vast country. My Canada: An Illustrated ... Read More »

June 12, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

My Canada: An Illustrated Atlas

By Katherine Dearlove; Lori Joy Smith (ill.)

June 12, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

Short for Chameleon

By Vicki Grant

Cam Redden is something of a chameleon. It’s his job as a part-time employee of the Almost Family Surrogate Agency to blend into other people’s lives, whether he’s hired to play a bereaved-but-stoic grandson or ... Read More »

June 12, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Land Beyond the Wall: An Immigration Story

By Veronika Martenova Charles

Given the abundance of stories about refugees and immigration released over the last couple of years, it might seem that Toronto author-illustrator Veronika Martenova Charles’s latest picture book is simply another among the throng. But ... Read More »

June 12, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

Polly MacCauley’s Finest, Divinest, Woolliest Gift of All

By Darka Erdelji (ill.); Sheree Fitch

In this poetry-infused folktale set in the village of River John, Polly MacCauley needs a rare breed of sheep to finish a lifelong knitting project, and Star, an orphaned lamb, is the divine animal that ... Read More »

June 8, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Stay

By Katherine Lawrence

At first glance, Stay appears to be modest in length, form, and story. But within the spare pages of this middle-grade novel in verse is a powerful narrative about a family in transition, and the ... Read More »

June 7, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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