Kids’ Books

The League of Super Feminists

By Mirion Malle; Aleshia Jensen (trans.)

How do you explain feminism to a child? As an academic trained in critical theory, this is the question that I assumed would be at the core of Mirion Malle’s The League of Super Feminists, ... Read More »

September 14, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

★ The Barnabus Project

By Devin Fan; Eric Fan; Terry Fan

Since their debut picture book, 2016’s The Night Gardener, bagged a variety of honours and awards, the Fan brothers – who until now have consisted of illustrators Eric and Terry Fan – have moved from ... Read More »

September 10, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt

By Riel Nason and Byron Eggenschwiler (ill.)

September 10, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Teatime Around the World

By Denyse Waissbluth and Chelsea O’Byrne (ill.)

Fancy upscale tea parties trace their roots back to the Victorian era, but when the china dolls and miniature cups are packed away and replaced with more grown-up pastimes, the ritual tends to disappear until ... Read More »

September 3, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ The Lady with the Books: A Story Inspired by the Remarkable Work of Jella Lepman

By Kathy Stinson and Marie Lafrance (ill.)

The majority of Canadian children – though shamefully not all – can take for granted the availability of books at home or in schools and local libraries. Two new picture books, both told from the ... Read More »

August 31, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

The Library Bus

By Bahram Rahman; Gabrielle Grimard (ill.)

August 31, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

I Hope You’re Listening

By Tom Ryan

Teenagers, especially girls, are so often the focus of true-crime podcasts that these real-life horror stories might be taken as cautionary tales. It makes sense, then, that YA novelists such as Courtney Summers (Sadie) and ... Read More »

August 27, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

How I Survived: Four Nights on the Ice

By Serapio Ittusardjuat and Matthew K. Hoddy (ill.)

Simultaneously published in English and Inuktitut, the graphic novel How I Survived is a true story of Arctic survival written by Serapio Ittusardjuat, an Inuk stone carver and former mechanic. As the narrator-protagonist, Ittusardjuat methodically ... Read More »

August 27, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Catch the Sky: Playful Poems on the Air We Share

By Robert Heidbreder and Emily Dove (ill.)

Catch the Sky, by author Robert Heidbreder and illustrator Emily Dove, is a collection of 30 micro-poems, each under 20 words. They cover everything sky-bound, including natural phenomena like crows and the northern lights as ... Read More »

August 24, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Heart Sister

By Michael F. Stewart

We first meet Emmitt Highland following the death of his 16-year-old twin sister, Minnie, who was struck by a car. Emmitt is looking for a way to cheer up his severely depressed mother. In the ... Read More »

August 20, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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