Blanket

By (author) Ruth Ohi
Illustrated by Ruth Ohi
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

A gentle wordless picture book about the difference a kind friend can make on a gray day.

It’s a beautiful morning, but when Cat wakes up, the world feels gray. Cat wraps up in a blanket and hides ...

Akpa's Journey

By (author) Mia Pelletier
Illustrated by Kagan McLeod
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories

After thick-billed murre Akpa emerges from his egg, high on an Arctic cliff, he soon learns that he must embark on a long migration before he is even able to fly. Flinging himself into the icy water with ...

The Ugly Place

By (author) Laura Deal
Illustrated by Emma Pedersen
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

From the author of In the Sky at Nighttime.

A child makes their way along the Arctic shoreline on a dark day. Everything around them seems as ugly as their mood, from the weather to the fish and mud. This ...

Wildflower

By (author) Melanie Brown
Illustrated by Sara Gillingham
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

The Rainbow Fish for kids who love the garden. A moving picture book for ages 3 to 8 about a daisy who is told she’s “just a weed”—and embarks on a journey to find her place in the garden.

Daisy ...

Secrets of Jarrow

By (author) Bill Slavin
Illustrated by Bill Slavin
Categories: Graphic novel / Comic book: crime, mystery and thrillers
Series: Mordecai Crow trilogy

Mordecai Crow must solve a mysterious murder to clear his name in a world ravaged by its past.

What is the true price of knowledge? Mordecai Crow embarks on a perilous quest for answers on a world ravaged ...

Bedtime in Nunatsiavut

By (author) Raeann Brown
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories

A sweet, beautiful book for children depicting the transformative dreams envisioned by a young Inuk girl, with the help of her loving mother.

In Bedtime in Nunatsiavut, a little girl named Nya yearns to ...

Bee & Flea and the Compost Caper

By (author) Anna Humphrey
Illustrated by Mike Deas
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Crime and mystery fiction
Series: Bee and Flea

Unlikely bug buddies bring the science of compost heaps to life

Bee is spending another beautiful, boring day pollinating flowers in the backyard when a visitor named Flea gallops onto the scene on a dog’s ...

Rabbit Chase

By (author) Elizabeth LaPensee
By (artist) KC Oster
Translated by Aarin Dokum
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories

A BookRiot Don’t-Miss 2022 Queer Graphic Novels & Memoirs • "Rabbit Chase is a welcome intersectional work for today's youth."—Traci Sorell, award-winning author of We Are Still Here! and At the ...

Kunoichi Bunny

By (author) Sara Cassidy
Illustrated by Brady Sato
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

The sun is out and the birds are chirping. It’s a beautiful day for Saya, her dad and her well-loved stuffed bunny, Kunoichi, to go to the park.

On their way, Saya stealthily stops a fight by flinging ...

A Picnic in the Rain

Text by Corinne Delporte
Illustrated by Célia Molinari Sebastià
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories

A rainy day in spring is the perfect time for the snail family to go out on a picnic. Carrying a basket of provisions and some toys, the snails set off under the most delightful downpour. But no sooner ...