Picture Books

My Words Flew Away like Birds

Toronto children’s author and librarian Debora Pearson offers a child’s-eye view of the challenges of moving to a new place in My Words Flew Away like Birds. Pearson, who works with newcomer families daily as ... Read More »

January 4, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Song for the Snow

By Jon-Erik Lappano and Byron Eggenschwiler (ill.)

In the bio that appears in Jon-Erik Lappano’s first picture book, the sly and gorgeous Tokyo Digs a Garden, the term “environmentalist” comes before “storyteller.” This makes sense with respect to his Governor General’s Literary ... Read More »

December 8, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

The Midnight Club

By Shane Goth; Yong Ling Kang (ill.)

The Midnight Club follows sisters Becca and Milly as they roam their family home late at night while their parents sleep. Led by Oliver, the family cat, the Midnight Club has its own hand signals ... Read More »

November 30, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

C Is for Carnival

By Yolanda T. Marshall; Daria Lavrova (ill.)

C Is for Carnival is a joyful rumpus in the form of an alphabet book. From B is for bacchanal to C is for costumes to S is for soca, each letter of the alphabet ... Read More »

November 16, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ The Sour Cherry Tree

By Naseem Hrab; Nahid Kazemi (ill.)

In Naseem Hrab’s picture book The Sour Cherry Tree, grief – an emotion profound in its universality – is depicted in the specific sadness of a young girl mourning the loss of her baba bozorg. ... Read More »

November 8, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture 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

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

The cover of Hetxwms Gyetxw (Brett D. Huson) and illustrator Natasha Donovan's Wolf Mother with a photo of the author

The Wolf Mother

By Hetxw’ms Gyetxw (Brett D. Huson); Natasha Donovan (ill.)

The Wolf Mother, the fifth book in the Mothers of Xsan series, follows a grey wolf from newborn pup to pack leader to Nox Gibuu (Wolf Mother). The wolf’s journey begins in the spring when ... Read More »

August 25, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books, Picture Books

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