Picture Books

★ Dear Black Girls

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

The Big Bad Wolf in My House

By Valérie Fontaine and Nathalie Dion (ill.); Shelley Tanaka (trans.)

In 2018, almost 19,000 children in Canada were victims of violent acts perpetrated by a family member. The Big Bad Wolf in My House, by Quebec duo Valérie Fontaine and Nathalie Dion (in an English ... Read More »

February 18, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Kimmy & Mike

By Dave Paddon and Lily Snowden-Fine (ill.)

Recitations are a centuries-old oral storytelling tradition in Newfoundland and Labrador – tall tales and unknown histories connecting community and place, past and present. In Kimmy & Mike, author, storyteller, and former pilot Dave Paddon ... Read More »

February 11, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

The Rock from the Sky

By Jon Klassen

In his beloved Hat Trilogy, Jon Klassen won young readers over by making them feel like insiders: they always knew more than his flawed animal characters did. The bear in I Want My Hat Back, ... Read More »

February 8, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

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