Kids’ Books

Ahiahia the Orphan

After Ahiahia’s parents are murdered in their igloo, he is raised by his loving grandmother, who teaches him the traditional ways of his people and makes his clothing out of animal skins. To keep him ... Read More »

September 26, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Night Lunch

By Eric Fan and Dena Seiferling (ill.)

It’s difficult to create stories that plug directly into the looping logic of the minds of very young children that are also smart and engaging enough for adults in charge of bedtime reading. It’s equally ... Read More »

September 21, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ It’s My Body!

By Elise Gravel

It’s My Body! is an exuberant, kid-friendly nonfiction picture-book primer on body positivity. Simple, direct sentences celebrate “ALL KINDS” of bodies and kick-start a convivial conversation about how to be your body’s best friend. Governor ... Read More »

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

★ Call Me Bill

By Lynette Richards

Expertly illustrated in black and white, Lynette Richards’s debut graphic novel tells a fictionalized version of the life of Maggie/Bill Armstrong, an adventurer who defied gender expectations in a quest to do what they loved. ... Read More »

September 14, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ 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

Apartment 713

By Kevin Sylvester

Be it marble run or Mousetrap, what kid doesn’t love the Rube Goldberg–esque twists and turns of a moving puzzle? In veteran kidlit writer Kevin Sylvester’s newest offering, Apartment 713, the Regency, the apartment building ... Read More »

September 7, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Meet Me in Mumbai

By Sabina Khan

Many South Asian Canadians grew up enthralled with the emotional stakes, the larger-than-life stories, and the space- and time-transcending connections of Bollywood films. Sabina Khan’s latest novel, which spotlights fiercely independent South Asian Muslim girls ... Read More »

September 6, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ 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

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