This exploration of the natural world and family bonds through the eyes of a young mixed-race narrator is a living, breathing, dazzlingly multi-faceted, exuberant masterpiece, firmly grounded in her sense of self-worth and belonging. If...
Picture books
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Author:Doyon, Samara ColeSummary: - Author:Hohn, Nadia L.Summary:
When Malaika moves to Canada, there's a lot to get used to, especially Carnival in the wintertime! Malaika is happy to be reunited with Mummy, but it means moving to Canada, where everything is different. It's cold in Québec City, no...
- Author:Doody, LoriSummary:
In this charming and gentle picture book, a moose wanders St. John's town, looking for a home for two mallards. Visual and verbal puns throughout emphasize the game at the heart of it all. A not-so-wild moose chase ends up in a...
- Author:Medina, Meg.Summary:
Mia is not sure what to think when her Abuela comes to live with her family in the city. They share a bedroom but speak different languages and Abuela is sad about leaving her sunny house with wild parrots in mango trees. How Mia and...
- Author:Tekavec, HeatherSummary:
Mother Monkey is not happy when her little monkeys use good manners. The children who visit the zoo are also not happy with well-behaved monkeys.
- Author:Numeroff, Laura JoffeSummary:
Des dessins de synthèse expressifs et amusants donnent vie à cette divertissante histoire randonnée dont la construction rappellera celle de deux autres albums de l'auteure Benji, tu veux un beigne? et Souris, tu veux un biscuit?...
- Author:Boudreau, IrisSummary:
Margot adore les moustaches. Les petites, les longues, les frisées et les pointues. Elle se met donc en tête d'en avoir une elle aussi, qu'importe les moqueries. Très vite, Margot va s'apercevoir qu'une moustache amène son lot de...
- Author:Hill, Susanna LeonardSummary:
In a solar system full of planets, Mars feels all alone. No one has time to play with him. Will he ever get a playmate? Mars' First Friends is a universal story about man' - and Mars' - best friends - our beloved pets. In this sweet...
- Author:Smid, GwenSummary:
Zip and zoom with Mary, a mischevious yet particularly practical eight-year-old with a magical atlas. Marvellous critters, such as a flying bison named Bou, help Mary as she searches for the Golden Boy's torch that has been carried off...
- Author:McDougall, Carol, LaRamee-Jones, ShandaSummary:
Maud Lewis 1-2-3 is a wonderful first counting book and introduction to the joy-filled art of Nova Scotia's most famous folk painter, Maud Lewis. Even the youngest babies will be drawn to the bright colours and bold forms in Lewis's...
- Author:Boiger, AlexandraSummary:
Two fearless Olympians sled to victory in this delightful new picture book Max and Marla are best friends. And aspiring Olympians! With their eyes on the prize, they know exactly what it'll take to reach sledding success: preparation,...
- Author:Banks, KateSummary:
When Max finds a box of long-forgotten toys, he builds a kingdom filled with adventures for himself and his two brothers.
- Author:Van Camp, RichardSummary:
A beautiful board book about gratitude by celebrated Indigenous author Richard Van Camp, complemented by photos from Tea and Bannock, a collective blog by Indigenous women photographers.
- Author:Francis, Mayann, Thiebaux-Heikalo, TamaraSummary:
Nine-year-old Mayann Francis and her family are travelling from their home in Cape Breton to New York City by train. Everything is exciting to young Mayann, from the beds that fold down to the stop in Montreal to visit friends. Most...
- Author:Pendreigh, KirstenSummary:
After Grandpa dies, a girl and her mother take the trip he had planned for her, kayaking along the Pacific west coast to look for the whales that he loved. The trip will do them good, Mom says, but the girl isn't sure. How can that be...
- Author:Spalding, AndreaSummary:
When Ian's parents separate, he moves with his mother to the city, a thousand miles away from the prairie wheat farm he calls home. With no friends and a bleak moonscape of a backyard to play in, Ian has only an old shoe box of objects...
- Author:Tougas, Chris, Iambic ProductionsSummary:
When a tornado leaves a farmer with a heap of scrap metal and no animals, his neighbors are sure it's all over for him. But the determined farmer refuses to admit defeat. His plans are big, and when his neighbors dismiss them with the...
- Author:Tougas, ChrisSummary:
When a tornado leaves a farmer with a heap of scrap metal and no animals, his neighbors are sure it's all over for him. But the determined farmer refuses to admit defeat. His plans are big, and when his neighbors dismiss them with...
- Author:MacLeod, ElizabethSummary:
Meet Willie O'Ree -- the first Black hockey player to play in the NHL. He blazed a trail for diversity on and off the ice! On January 18, 1958, Willie O'Ree made history when he suited up with the Boston Bruins against the Montreal...
- Author:Blanc, KatherineSummary:
Melvin is an imaginative and noisy little boy who grows up to be Mel Blanc, Looney Tunes cartoon character pioneer and the voice behind Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Woody Woodpecker, the Tasmanian Devil, and so many more familiar...
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