36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You

Two strangers walk into a room. They sit facing each other. They ask and answer 36 predetermined questions ranging from the banal to the intimate. Afterward, they stare into each other’s eyes silently for four ... Read More »

October 23, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Louis Undercover

By Fanny Britt; Isabelle Arsenault (ill.); Christelle Morelli (trans.); Susan Ouriou (trans.)

Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault follow up their Governor General’s Literary Award–winning Jane, the Fox and Me with a second graphic novel collaboration of equal acuity. The titular protagonist of Louis Uncover is a perceptive ... Read More »

October 17, 2017 | Filed under: Graphica, Kids’ Books

Under-the-Bed Fred

By Colin Jack (ill.); Linda Bailey

Leo loves scary movies (he has posters of them on his bedroom walls), but in real life he’s terrified of the monster who lives under his bed. One fateful middle of the night, he decides ... Read More »

October 16, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

Dragonfly Song

By Wendy Orr

Ancient Minoan civilization comes to life in this highly anticipated new middle-grade novel by the author of Nim’s Island. Aissa is the first-born daughter of the high priestess of her island nation, destined to inherit ... Read More »

October 10, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ The Little Tree by the Sea: From Halifax to Boston With Love

By Belle DeMont (ill.); John DeMont

The main character in this pitch-perfect book about the 1917 Halifax Explosion – by father-daughter team John and Belle DeMont – is a little tree perched high on the hill. Seeing two boats about to ... Read More »

October 10, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

Middle Bear

By Manon Gauthier (ill.); Susanna Isern

Three new picture books champion life in the middle – be it the middle child in a seven-person family, a bear with an older and a younger brother, or a middle puzzle piece wondering where ... Read More »

October 2, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Jammie Day!

By Brooke Kerrigan (ill.); Carrie Snyder

October 2, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

Where Oliver Fits

By Cale Atkinson

October 2, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Bad Mood and the Stick

By Lemony Snicket; Matthew Forsythe (ill.)

It all starts with a very grumpy girl named Curly, who finds a stick lying on the ground. Curly has the great misfortune of walking by an ice cream store without getting any ice cream ... Read More »

October 2, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Raftsmen

By Dmitry Bondarenko (ill.); Ryan Barnett

It’s hard to believe, amid the hype of our sesquicentennial, that there could be any tales of Canadian pluck and derring-do left to be unearthed and mythologized. And yet few people know (or remember) the ... Read More »

September 25, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

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36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You

★ Louis Undercover

Under-the-Bed Fred

Dragonfly Song

★ The Little Tree by the Sea: From Halifax to Boston With Love

Middle Bear

★ Jammie Day!

Where Oliver Fits

★ The Bad Mood and the Stick

The Raftsmen

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