Kids’ Books

Simon Steps Into the Ring

By Marylène Monette and Marion Arbona (ill.); Sophie B. Watson (trans.)

“Just be yourself” is the default advice for young people struggling in social situations. But how does that actually work? Kids in four new picture books use different strategies to feel more at ease in a ... Read More »

March 19, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Maison Rouge: Memories of a Childhood in War

By Liliane Leila Juma

Liliane Leila Juma was given the name Lela by her father but wrote Maison Rouge – her harrowing story of escaping war in the Democratic Republic of Congo – under her middle name Liliane, which had officially become ... Read More »

March 16, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

The Copycat

By Wendy McLeod MacKnight

Wendy McLeod MacKnight’s latest middle-grade novel takes readers to an alternate version of Saint John, New Brunswick, where one per cent of the population are Copycats – beings that can magically transform into whatever human ... Read More »

March 12, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books

Joni: The Lyrical Life of Joni Mitchell

By Selina Alko

Vancouver-raised, Brooklyn-based author-illustrator Selina Alko first heard Joni Mitchell’s music when she was nine years old attending summer camp in B.C. It made an enduring impression. In her author’s note for Joni: The Lyrical Life ... Read More »

March 9, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Trending: How and Why Stuff Gets Popular

By Kira Vermond and Clayton Hanmer (ill.)

Hula Hoops, Cabbage Patch Kids, and pet rocks are often dismissed as nothing more than silly, fleeting frivolities. But in the new non-fiction book Trending: How and Why Stuff Gets Popular, Norma Fleck Award–winning author ... Read More »

March 5, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

Nattiq and the Land of Statues

By Barbara Landry and Martha Kyak (ill.)

The stakes of environmental-science books for kids have risen dramatically as climate change hurtles toward the point of no return. Four new titles, running the gamut from informational to fictional, celebrate the beauty of trees ... Read More »

March 2, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Peter and the Tree Children

By Peter Wohlleben and Cale Atkinson (ill.); Jane Billinghurst (trans.)

March 2, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

A Forest in the City

By Andrea Curtis and Pierre Pratt (ill.)

March 2, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

The Boreal Forest

By L.E. Carmichael and Josée Bisaillon (ill.)

March 2, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ My Long List of Impossible Things

By Michelle Barker

Vladimir Nabokov advised fiction writers to put their characters up a tree and then throw rocks at them. In the edgy and suspenseful My Long List of Impossible Things, novelist Michelle Barker’s tree is tall ... Read More »

February 13, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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