The Ice Chips and the Magical Rink

By Kerry MacGregor; Kim Smith (ill.); Roy MacGregor

Best friends Lucas, Edge, Swift, and Crunch are huge hockey fans whose beloved local skating rink might shut down because of equipment problems. They take what they think will be their last skate at the ... Read More »

January 22, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Sparks!

By Ian Boothby; Nina Matsumoto (ill.)

August and Charlie are two cats who meet as fellow prisoners in a secret animal testing laboratory, and later live together in a house with a sentient robot that also serves as a kitty litter ... Read More »

January 22, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

Strangers: The Reckoner, Book 1

By David A. Robertson

Cole Harper – the protagonist of David A. Robertson’s impressive new novel for young adults – hasn’t returned to Wounded Sky First Nation in almost a decade. A high school senior in Winnipeg, with a ... Read More »

January 12, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen

By Deborah Hopkinson; Qin Leng (ill.)

The rituals of courtship and village life are at the heart of two new swoon-worthy picture books – one about finding joy and bliss in the everyday, and the other, a loving, biographical ode to ... Read More »

January 12, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Fox and the Fisherman

By Marianne Dumas

Interspecies friendships abound in literature for children – from Wilbur and Fern to Babe and Farmer Hoggett. Quebec-based author and illustrator Marianne Dumas upholds this tradition in her debut picture book, The Fox and the ... Read More »

January 8, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

Tangled Planet

By Kate Blair

In the second work of speculative fiction by YA author Kate Blair, the passengers of spaceship Venture have finally arrived at Beta Earth, ready to colonize the untouched planet. But for 17-year-old Ursa, the ship ... Read More »

January 8, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Pink Umbrella

By Amélie Callot; Geneviève Godbout (ill.); Lara Hinchberger (trans.)

January 4, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

From the Heart of Africa: A Book of Wisdom

By Collected by Eric Walters

Eric Walters may be best known as the author of dozens of highly regarded young adult novels, but in recent years, he has published a growing number of picture books, many of which have been ... Read More »

December 11, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Nimoshom and His Bus

By Karen Hibbard (ill.); Penny M. Thomas

“Aboriginal languages are a fundamental and valued element of Canadian culture and society, and there is an urgency to preserve them,” reads one of the calls to action in the final report from the Truth ... Read More »

December 4, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books