Hidden Gold: A True Story of the Holocaust

Hidden Gold by Ella Burakowski tells the story of the author’s mother, Shoshana Gold, Shoshana’s siblings, Esther and David, and their parents, Hanna and Leib. The Golds were a wealthy Jewish family who ran a ... Read More »

October 14, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear

By Lindsay Mattick; Sophie Blackall (illus.)

The only thing better than a bedtime story is a bedtime story that is true. And if you’re the great-great-grandson of the man who helped inspire one of the most beloved characters in all of ... Read More »

October 14, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

Timo’s Garden

By Victoria Allenby; Dean Griffiths (illus.)

Encouraged to sign up for Toadstool Corners’ Great, Green Garden Tour, rabbit Timo begins feverishly planning and improving his garden. With rhythmic pairings of activity (“He trimmed and he tidied. He hurried and he scurried. ... Read More »

October 14, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

Mr. Postmouse’s Rounds

By Marianne Dubuc

Veteran Quebec author-illustrator Marianne Dubuc’s latest picture book channels Richard Scarry as the reader follows Mr. Postmouse on his journey through a grassy village. Stops at the homes of various animals are depicted with Dubuc’s ... Read More »

October 14, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

Loyalist to a Fault (The Dead Kid Detective Agency #3)

By Evan Munday

Witty cartoonist extraordinaire Evan Munday returns with a third darkly hilarious instalment in his Dead Kids Detective Agency series. This time, (living) heroine October Schwartz enlists her (non-living) pals in solving how fellow dead kid ... Read More »

October 14, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ West Coast Wild: A Nature Alphabet

By Deborah Hodge; Karen Reczuch (illus.)

Two gorgeous new picture books celebrate the beauty of Canadian landscapes and the fascinating creatures and people who inhabit them. In West Coast Wild, Deborah Hodge focuses on the birds, fish, and other animals that ... Read More »

October 14, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ An Inuksuk Means Welcome

By Mary Wallace

September 11, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Scorpion Rules

By Erin Bow

In the future as described by Erin Bow in her stunning and harrowing new novel, the political becomes very personal. Following the melting of the polar ice caps, large portions of the world have flooded, ... Read More »

September 11, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Loula and Mister the Monster

By Anne Villeneuve

After overhearing her mother say she just can’t live with that “MONSTER” anymore, Loula is sure her large, misbehaving dog, Mister, is in danger of being thrown out “like an old pair of shoes.” With ... Read More »

September 11, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

Nowhere Wild

By Joe Beernink

In Joe Beernink’s Nowhere Wild, a global pandemic has wiped out all but those who possess natural immunity to the disease. Transportation is cut off, food supplies vanish, and many desperate survivors let their basest ... Read More »

September 11, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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