The Pie Reports

By (author) Hayley Lowe
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories

★“Discusses illness and depression with gentleness that helps make the big feelings that can go with them less overwhelming. Touching and playful illustrations complement a story that handles themes ...

Caillou: The Silver Knight

Adapted by Robin Bright
Illustrated by Lauren Adams, Rebecca Galloway, Michelle McIver & Tony Mitchell
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories

A Heartwarming Story on the Importance of Family Ties

Caillou is disappointed when his friend Sarah gets sick and can't come over to play. To cheer him up, Daddy tells him the story of a great knight who ...

All That Grows

By (author) Jack Wong
Illustrated by Jack Wong
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories

From Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner Jack Wong, a story of a boy who discovers that the more he learns, the more there is to know!

On their neighborhood walks together, a boy learns from his older ...

Wildful

By (author) Kengo Kurimoto
Illustrated by Kengo Kurimoto
Categories: American / British style comic books and graphic novels

Discover the magic of the wilderness in this breathtaking graphic novel reminiscent of The Secret Garden.

Poppy’s mother hasn’t been the same since Gran passed away. She stays inside and watches TV, ...

Asha and the Toymaker

By (author) Sakshi Mangal
Illustrated by Sakshi Mangal
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories
Series: -

A heartwarming story about the value of art, set in the evocative Blue City of India.

Asha's papa makes and sells wooden toys to pay for her to go to school. But Papa struggles to find buyers. And this ...

Mira and Baku

By (author) Sara Truuvert
Illustrated by Michelle Theodore
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

A Quill & Quire Book of the Year

With the help of a magical friend, a young girl searches for her missing father in this poignant story set during Japanese Canadian incarceration in World War II.

It’s ...

The Dancing Letters

Text by Evelyne Fournier
Illustrated by Aurélien Galvan
Translated by Carine Laforest
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

An endearing family story about love and dyslexia

Olivia is a little girl full of life and imagination. But when her grandmother asks her to write a story for her birthday, Olivia feels a little unsure. ...

We Love You as Much as the Fox Loves Its Tail

By (author) Masiana Kelly
Illustrated by Tamara Campeau
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories

“We’ll love you as much as the narwhal loves its tusk.

We’ll love you as much as the seal loves its musk.

Little One, our new baby,

Welcome to our family.”

This loving bedtime poem shares all the ...

Heart Berry Bling

By (author) Jenny Kay Dupuis
Illustrated by Eva Campbell
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories

On a visit to her granny, Maggie is excited to begin her first-ever beading project: a pair of strawberry earrings. However, beading is much harder than she expected! As they work side by side, Granny ...

I Want to Build a Seahouse (pb)

By (author) Whitney Moran
Illustrated by Josée Bisaillon
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories

I want to build a seahouse
A place that's just for me...

In a lighthouse on the sea lives a young girl who is about to become a big sister. Trouble is, she doesn't want a little sister. With her peaceful ...