Picture Books

★ Sparks!

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

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

The Pink Umbrella

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

January 4, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

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

★ Stolen Words

By Gabrielle Grimard (ill.); Melanie Florence

December 4, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

Engineered! Engineering Design at Work: A Fun Exploration of Nine Amazing Feats

By James Gulliver Hancock (ill.); Shannon Hunt

In a world full of Gordian knots, “innovation” has become an all-too-easy and overused buzzword. But in two new non-fiction books, we see how engineering and inventive thinking make a real difference to life in ... Read More »

December 4, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Innovation Nation: How Canadian Innovators Made the World Smarter, Smaller, Kinder, Safer, Healthier, Wealthier, Happier

By David Johnston; Josh Holinaty (ill.); Tom Jenkins

December 4, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Woodrow at Sea

By Wallace Edwards

Researchers at the University of Toronto recently reported that children’s books with human characters have a greater moral impact on young people than books with anthropomorphic protagonists. The subjects of the study were read stories ... Read More »

November 30, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books