Picture Books

Sonata for Fish and Boy

Sonata for Fish and Boy, the first solo picture book by Toronto-based illustrator Milan Pavlović, is a well-orchestrated, wordless appreciation of music and friendship. In a riverside park, a mop-haired child plays a violin with ... Read More »

June 10, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Over the Shop

By JonArno Lawson and Qin Leng (ill.)

June 10, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Journey Around the Sun: The Story of Halley’s Comet

By James Gladstone and Yaara Eshet (ill.)

For the scientist, the artist, and the stargazer alike, the cosmos abounds with endless wonders. Chief among them is the once-in-a-lifetime event of seeing Halley’s comet. In the STEM picture book Journey Around the Sun: ... Read More »

May 13, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Dear Black Girls

By Shanice Nicole and Kezna Dalz (ill.)

Dear Black Girls, by Black feminist educator Shanice Nicole and Black artist Kezna Dalz, grabs readers from the first page. Writing in the second person, a mode rarely used in picture books, Nicole addresses her ... Read More »

May 6, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh / This Is How I Know

By Brittany Luby and Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley (ill.); Alvin Ted Corbiere and Alan Corbiere (trans.)

May 6, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Thao

By Thao Lam

Author-illustrator Thao Lam, the creator behind the critically acclaimed picture books My Cat Looks Like My Dad, Wallpaper, and The Paper Boat: A Refugee Story, returns with Thao. Based on Thao Lam’s own childhood experiences ... Read More »

April 26, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ We Dream Medicine Dreams

By Lisa Boivin

We Dream Medicine Dreams, by author, artist, and bioethicist Lisa Boivin, a member of the Deninu K’ue First Nation in the Northwest Territories, is a moving and insightful picture book honouring the enduring relationship between ... Read More »

March 29, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Treaty Words: For As Long As the  Rivers Flow

By Aimée Craft and Luke Swinson (ill.)

March 29, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Hare B&B

By Bill Richardson and Bill Pechet (ill.)

Harry and her hare siblings are out for a walk when their unsuspecting parents are duped and devoured by a coyote. Destitute and with a newly empty bedroom in the house, the kids convert the ... Read More »

March 25, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Stand Like a Cedar

By Nicola L. Campbell and Carrielynn Victor (ill.)

Nicola Campbell is an award-winning author of such titles as Shi-shi-etko (2006 Anskohk Aboriginal Children’s Book of the Year winner) and Shin-chi’s Canoe (winner of the 2009 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award). Paired with illustrations ... Read More »

March 1, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

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