Kids’ Books

Chasing Bats and Tracking Rats: Urban Ecology, Community Science, and How We Share Our Cities

In her debut nonfiction children’s book, Chasing Bats and Tracking Rats: Urban Ecology, Community Science, and How We Share Our Cities, Toronto ecologist Cylita Guy encourages city kids to get outside, appreciate urban wildlife, and ... Read More »

October 26, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

★ My Mad Hair Day

By Nathalie Dion

A child wrestles with big emotions caused by hair of tall-tale proportions in the first solo picture book by Montreal artist and Governor General’s Literary Award nominee Nathalie Dion. Malie has a hard time keeping ... Read More »

October 19, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Chaiwala!

By Priti Birla Maheshwari; Ashley Barron (ill.)

A joyful, high-energy child embraces life with gusto in Meena’s Mindful Moment, an insightful picture book by Tina Athaide, winner of the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People. When Meena arrives at ... Read More »

October 13, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Meena’s Mindful Moment

By Tina Athaide; Åsa Gilland (ill.)

October 13, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Jamilah at the End of the World

By Mary-Lou Zeitoun

Thanks to David Suzuki and a news clip about a “Totally Awful American Hurricane,” 17-year-old Jamilah Monsour is convinced a climate disaster is imminent. She starts stockpiling supplies and converts her family’s garage into a ... Read More »

October 5, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Undercover Book List

By Colleen Nelson

A secret note hidden in a favourite book in the school library. A bookish girl looking for a new best friend. A restless prankster who dislikes reading. These are the ingredients in Colleen Nelson’s The ... Read More »

September 29, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Sorry for Your Loss

By Joanne Levy

From classics by E.B. White and Katherine Paterson to contemporary novels by Eric Walters and Ali Benjamin, the subject of death is something that children’s fiction is unafraid to explore. The rituals following death, however, ... Read More »

September 27, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Walking in Two Worlds

By Wab Kinew

Bugz Holiday lives in two worlds. In the real world, Bugz – the protagonist of writer and politician Wab Kinew’s first fantasy novel for young readers, Walking in Two Worlds – is an Anishinaabe high ... Read More »

September 21, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Dee and Apostrofee

By Judith Henderson; Ohara Hale (ill.)

As everyone knows, Aug. 15 is International Apostrophe Day, an occasion the internet celebrates by shaming the apostrophe’s most egregious abusers. Small businesses tend to be easy targets, often for misplaced or redundant possessives (“Open ... Read More »

September 14, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

A Terrible Tide

By Suzanne Meade

On November 19, 1929, Celia’s celebrating her 13th birthday with her family when their house on Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula begins to shake. Alarmed, everyone runs outside. Was it an explosion? Nobody knows. Since there is ... Read More »

September 1, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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