Canadian library staff vote for their most-anticipated upcoming books via Loan Stars, a joint readers’ advisory program run by BookNet Canada and the Canadian Urban Libraries Council. This list features titles with pub dates from June through September 2020.

• Monsters 101, Cale Atkinson (Tundra Books)
• Every Little Letter, Deborah Underwood and Joy Hwang Ruiz, ill. (Dial Books for Young Readers)
• A Little Book About Opposites, Leo Lionni and Jan Gerardi, ill. (Random House Children’s Books)
• All Welcome Here, James Preller and Mary GrandPre, ill. (Feiwel & Friends)
• Big Nate Stays Classy, Lincoln Peirce (Andrews McMeel Publishing)
• Little White Fish Deep Beneath the Sea, Guido Van Genechten (Clavis)
• What Is a Family?, Annette Griffin and Nichola Cowdery, ill. (Familius)
• How to Doodle Year-Round, Kamo (Tuttle Publishing)
• The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt, Riel Nason and Byron Eggenschwiler (Tundra)
• The Paper Boat, Thao Lam (Owlkids Books)