Picture Books

Dreaming Alongside

By Monique Gray Smith and Nicole Neidhardt (ill.)

Dreaming Alongside is a sumptuous picture book that invites young readers to follow dragonfly on an adventure in dreaming. With visits to both urban and natural settings, readers learn about taking inspiration from their surroundings. ... Read More »

May 7, 2025 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

The Fabulous Edweena

By Edwin Dumont and Melissa Cho (ill.)

The Fabulous Edweena, written by Edwin Dumont and illustrated by Melissa Cho, is a heartening, picture-book introduction to drag. A young boy, Edwin, has been practising and waiting all year for a school figure skating competition. While ... Read More »

April 9, 2025 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Hugs Are (Not) for Everybody

By Ella Russell and Udayana Lugo (ill.)

For many of us, hugs are part of everyday life. We hug our family, our friends, our pets, and depending on the circumstances, we even hug people we just met. In North American society, this ... Read More »

April 2, 2025 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Chidori: A Story of One Thousand Birds

By Jennifer Maruno and Miki Sato (ill.)

In March 2011, a major earthquake struck off the coast of northeastern Japan resulting in a series of tsunami waves that brought devastation – with more than 18,000 people killed and disappeared – across the ... Read More »

March 26, 2025 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

The Seaweed Blanket

By Nancy Deas and Mike Deas (ill.)

Two young girls, Maren and Ula, visit their aunt by the seaside. They are bored and lonely, stuck indoors as they take care of the needs of their aunt, who seems confined to bed and ... Read More »

March 12, 2025 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Shark Girl

By Kate Beaton

Shark Girl’s life in the ocean goes swimmingly until she’s caught in a bottom trawl net and is suddenly dragged into troubled waters. Half human (from her powder blue shoulders up to her flowing mane ... Read More »

March 5, 2025 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Do Not Turn the Page!

By Jane Blondie and Marcus Cutler (ill.)

Charlie, the narrator of Jane Blondie’s frame-breaking picture book, doesn’t want his readers to turn the book’s pages for self-interested reasons. He knows that every page turned gets him closer to that part of the ... Read More »

February 12, 2025 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

I Am Métis

By Karen Hourie Ellefson and Leah Dorion (ill.)

Based on Métis author and former teacher Karen Hourie Ellefson’s own experiences growing up, I Am Métis is a picture book closely tied to the perspective of its blue-eyed, white-passing narrator. After classmates ridicule her ... Read More »

February 5, 2025 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

I Wonder About Worlds: Discovering Planets and Exoplanets

By James Gladstone and Yaara Eshet (ill.)

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 »

December 4, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Barnaby Unboxed!

By The Fan Brothers

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

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