Picture Books

★ There’s a Ghost in the Garden

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

By Kyo Maclear and Gracey Zhang (ill.)

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 Venus Angelica (ill.)

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

Mother Aspen

By Annette LeBox and Crystal Smith (ill.)

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

By Nadia Sammurtok and Simji Park (ill.)

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

Sea Snooze

By Sarabeth Holden and Emma Pedersen (ill.)

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

★ SOS Water

By Yayo

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

Look! Look!

By Uma Krishnaswami and Uma Krishnaswamy (ill.)

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

★ Let’s Go!

By Julie Flett

Let’s Go! by Cree-Métis artist and author Julie Flett is a lovingly illustrated picture book about skateboarding and community. The book’s narrator is a Cree boy, enchanted by the older kids he sees skateboarding past ... Read More »

June 12, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Once Upon a Sari

By Zenia Wadhwani and Avani Dwivedi (ill.)

In Zenia Wadhwani’s Once Upon a Sari, a sari is never just a sari. It is a keepsake that unravels a story, history, and cultural identity unique to its wearer. When I first read Once Upon ... Read More »

June 5, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

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