Picture Books

Margo Thinks Twice

One Saturday morning, Margo wakes up with the undeniable urge to create. As she’s about to begin assembling her masterpiece, Margo’s mother, not wanting the little girl to stick to everything, cautions her to be ... Read More »

November 7, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Solutions for Cold Feet and Other Little Problems

By Carey Sookocheff

Toronto illustrator Carey Sookocheff isn’t new to picture books – she provided the charming art for Maureen Fergus’s popular Buddy and Earl series – but she is new to authorship, and it’s a good fit. ... Read More »

October 17, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ French Toast

By Kari-Lynn Winters‚ François Thisdale (ill.)

It’s not easy feeling different, especially when it seems all the other kids fit in. Two new picture books gently and playfully take on these insecurities and turn them into celebrations of diversity. In French ... Read More »

October 12, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

Hurry Up, Henry

By Jennifer Lanthier‚ Isabelle Malenfant (ill.)

From three great talents in Canadian children’s literature come two picture books that highlight some of the more challenging aspects of childhood. In Jeremy Tankard’s Hungry Bird, Bird is hangry. In Hurry Up, Henry by ... Read More »

September 27, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

Lila and the Crow

By Gabrielle Grimard

In her authorial debut, Montreal illustrator Gabrielle Grimard tackles bullying and diversity through the heartbreaking story of Lila, whose new classmates mock her for looking different. Every day, the other students call her a crow ... Read More »

September 22, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

Gertie’s Leap to Greatness

By Jillian Tamaki (ill.); Kate Beasley

Anne, Pippi, Ramona, Harriet, Clementine: the precocious, incorrigible, too-bright-for-her-own-good young female character is an established archetype in children’s books. The magical thing about this archetype is that so many young readers relate to it, regardless ... Read More »

September 20, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

Are You an Echo? The Lost Poetry of Misuzu Kaneko

By Toshikado Hajiri (ill.); David Jacobson (ed.); Michiko Tsuboi (ed.); Misuzu Kaneko (ed.); Sally Ito (ed.)

Empathy is a dominant theme in the work of celebrated Japanese children’s poet Misuzu Kaneko, who died in 1930. Her poems are about making connections and identifying with others – so much so that she ... Read More »

September 15, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

Hungry Bird

By Jeremy Tankard

September 7, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

Clara Humble and the Not-So-Super Powers

By Anna Humphrey; Lisa Cinar (ill.)

Naughtiness is the lifeblood of the comic middle-grade novel, but it presents the writer with a problem in this age of didacticism: how can a kid get into energetic and imaginative trouble when adults are ... Read More »

August 23, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

King Baby

By Kate Beaton

Canadian cartooning superstar Kate Beaton follows up her stellar kidlit debut, The Princess and the Pony, with the story of a demanding infant who holds court over his entire family. The narration is delivered in ... Read More »

August 8, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

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