Walking in the City with Jane: A Story of Jane Jacobs

Unique women find their voices and overcome naysayers in two picture-book biographies that follow their subjects from childhood to middle age. In Walking in the City with Jane, author Susan Hughes introduces us to a ... Read More »

April 9, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

Elisapee and Her Baby Seagull

By Charlene Chua (ill.); Nancy Mike

Elisapee, a young Inuit girl, lives with her parents in a quaint seaside house. In the summer, her father often brings home baby birds on his boat, and one day he brings home a baby ... Read More »

April 5, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

On Our Street: Our First Talk About Poverty

By Jaime Casap; Jane Heinrichs (ill.); Jillian Roberts

“Don’t ask kids what they want to be when they grow up; ask them what problem they want to solve,” says Jaime Casap, Google’s chief education evangelist. In their non-fiction resource book, Casap and psychologist ... Read More »

March 15, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

Dr. Coo and the Pigeon Protest

By Kass Reich (ill.); Sarah Hampson

Award-winning Canadian newspaper journalist Sarah Hampson has published her first picture book and it’s one that celebrates diversity and promotes respect for others. In this slight story, Dr. Coo is a sophisticated pigeon who knows ... Read More »

March 12, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ They Say Blue

By Jillian Tamaki

With her first picture book, Jillian Tamaki displays a mastery of the form along with a sensitive understanding of the imaginative life of a small child. Tamaki is best known as the illustrator of the ... Read More »

March 1, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Seb and the Sun

By Jami Gigot

Back in 2011, disgraced former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly made a baffling on-air argument for the existence of God: “Tide goes in, tide goes out,” he said to his guest, an outspoken atheist. “You ... Read More »

February 26, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Boy and the Blue Moon

By Ashley Crowley (ill.); Sara O’Leary

February 26, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Triumphant Tale of the House Sparrow

By Jan Thornhill

Award-winning author and illustrator Jan Thornhill has a passion for nature that runs deep. From her first picture book, The Wildlife ABC (1988), to this most recent title, The Triumphant Tale of the House Sparrow, ... Read More »

January 26, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

Mr. Mergler, Beethoven, and Me

By David Gutnick; Mathilde Cinq-Mars (ill.)

Different generations and cultures are drawn together by the love of music in this gentle picture book by CBC Radio documentary writer David Gutnick. The book is based on a true story taken from the ... Read More »

January 24, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Day with Yayah

By Julie Flett (ill.); Nicola I. Campbell

“Yayah, what are they called in our language?” asks the children on the first page of A Day with Yayah, pointing to trees and plants while on a family gathering excursion. This radiant picture book, ... Read More »

January 24, 2018 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

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