December 4, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
I Wonder About Worlds: Discovering Planets and Exoplanets combines storytelling and science in a picture book that encourages re-reading. Author James Gladstone balances a lyrical exploration of space – both of our own solar system ... Read More »
Four years after the release of The Barnabus Project, the Fan Brothers have returned with another look into the fantastical and slightly dystopian world of Perfect Pets, an underground factory that produces genetically engineered pets. ... Read More »
November 13, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
No typical, unsettling ghosts haunt Vicky Metcalf Award–winning author Kyo Maclear’s latest picture book. The subtle spirit roaming throughout There’s a Ghost in the Garden gently speaks to the enduring nature of memory. The child ... Read More »
October 30, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
Noodles on a Bicycle invites readers to experience the wonder of watching delivery men balance precarious towers of boxed noodles and bowls while cycling through the busy streets of mid-20th-century Tokyo. Author Kyo Maclear tells ... Read More »
October 9, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
What’s in Alanna’s Secret Sauce? by Sarah Jane Conklin and illustrated by Venus Angelica is a picture book in verse that tells the story of nine-year-old Alanna and her Nan, who are looking to make ... Read More »
October 2, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
In 2021, Canadian ecologist Suzanne Simard upended the way we think about the natural world with her groundbreaking Finding the Mother Tree. In that book, she explained how trees in forests, even those of different ... Read More »
September 18, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
Dad, I Miss You, written by Inuit author and educator Nadia Sammurtok, is an emotional story about a young boy taken from his family and placed in a residential school. Told through the internal monologues ... Read More »
August 28, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
Convincing children to get ready for bed can be an adventure on its own, but the mother in Sea Snooze – also our narrator – is halfway there when the book begins. This richly illustrated ... Read More »
August 14, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
In this fable-like picture book, Lalo, a sailor, meets a goldfish that is abandoned atop a pile of bulging, black plastic garbage bags on a sidewalk by the port. Striking up a conversation, Rosa confides ... Read More »
July 17, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
Set in a rural village in India, this book transcends borders with its universal theme that celebrates the power of community and rejuvenation of the environment. Every day villagers would pass through the same weedy ... Read More »
June 19, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books