Picture Books

Still This Love Goes On

By Buffy Sainte-Marie and Julie Flett (ill.)

Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Still This Love Goes On and Monique Gray Smith’s I Hope/nipakosêyimon offer parents and teachers excellent options for cheerful, lovingly illustrated Indigenous-authored picture books. They are well suited for reading – or, in ... Read More »

September 12, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

I Hope/nipakosêyimon

By Monique Gray Smith and Gabrielle Grimard (ill.); Dolores Greyeyes Sand (trans.)

September 12, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Boobies

By Nancy Vo

Joining a growing circle of celebratory and educational picture books about the human body (including Tyler Feder’s exemplary Bodies Are Cool) is Nancy Vo’s Boobies. Vo, whom many might recognize as the author-illustrator of The ... Read More »

August 29, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

The Ugly Place

By Laura Deal and Emma Pedersen (ill.)

A picture book collaboration between Iqaluit-based writer Laura Deal and Toronto illustrator Emma Pedersen celebrates the beauty of the tundra and the power of our surroundings to bring us down or cheer us up. Pedersen’s ... Read More »

August 22, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Sweetgrass

By Theresa Meuse and Jessica Jerome (ill.)

Warren is heading out with his older cousin Matthew and their Auntie to pick sweetgrass, as it is one of the sacred medicines used as an offering or to smudge. Since this is his ... Read More »

August 15, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Majagalee: The Language of Seasons

By Shawna Davis and Toonasa Jordana Luggi (photog.)

Majagalee: The Language of Seasons is a picture book that explores from a Gitksan perspective the four seasons on the northwest coast of what is currently British Columbia. Along with the contributions by Wet’suwet’en and ... Read More »

August 2, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ My Uncle Is Coming Tomorrow/Mañana viene mi tío

By Sebastián Santana Camargo and Elisa Amado (trans.)

My Uncle Is Coming Tomorrow/Mañana viene mi tío is an incisive English–Spanish dual-language picture book for older readers, dedicated to “those who, because of forced disappearances, were never able to come.” Waiting by a closed ... Read More »

July 19, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ I’s the B’y: The Beloved Folk Song

By Lauren Soloy (ill.)

I’s the B’y is an exuberant celebration of Newfoundland culture lovingly presented in picture-book form. It’s based on the well-worn folk song that has long been identified with the island’s traditional music and fishing heritage. ... Read More »

June 29, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

kā-āciwīkicik/The Move

By Doris George and Don K. Philpot; Alyssa Koski (ill.)

kā-āciwīkicik/The Move is a moving story inspired by the forced relocation of the Chemawawin Cree Nation to Easterville, Manitoba, told in both Cree and English by Cree educators Doris George and Don K. Philpot. Displaced ... Read More »

June 27, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ A Day for Sandcastles

By JonArno Lawson and Qin Leng (ill.)

A Day for Sandcastles continues the happy collaboration between JonArno Lawson and illustrator Qin Leng that began with last year’s Over the Shop. Like its predecessor, A Day for Sandcastles is a wordless picture book, ... Read More »

June 20, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

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