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 ...

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 ...

What to Bring

By (author) Lorna Schultz Nicholson
Illustrated by Ellen Rooney
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories

A moving story about making tough choices when disaster strikes

Malia and her family are spending a day outside when they notice something strange. Huge white-and-gray clouds fill the sky, planes zoom ...

Mama Bird Lost an Egg

Text by Evelyne Fournier
Illustrated by Chloloula
Translated by N. Penn
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

Mama Bird is sad today. A little egg she was keeping warm has broken. With tenderness and compassion, her son, Gabriel, helps comfort her. A thoughtful picture book that explores the theme of miscarriage, ...

Missing Mike

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

Wildfires are exactly that—surprisingly swift in creating panic and concern about family, home, and all the things one loves, including the family dog named Mike. When it’s time to evacuate, suddenly ...

A Trio of Tolerable Tales

By (author) Margaret Atwood & Dušan Petričić
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories

Three hilarious Margaret Atwood tales, together in a chapter book for the first time!

In Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes, Ramsay runs away from his revolting relatives and makes a new friend with ...

Seven (the series) bundle

Edited by Orca Book Publishers
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories
Series: Seven (the Series)

When David McLean, well-loved grandfather and avid adventurer, dies, he leaves behind an unusual will that outlines sevens tasks he has set for his seven grandsons.

Eric Walters, John Wilson, Ted Staunton, ...

Directed by Kaspar Snit

By (author) Cary Fagan
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy

Fresh from their victory over the nasty Kaspar Snit, — who was last seen trying to steal the fountains of Rome in The Fortress of Kaspar Snit — the Blande family have certainly earned a rest. They’re ...

The Fortress of Kaspar Snit

By (author) Cary Fagan
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

Chosen for inclusion in the reading list for the 2006 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award
Kaspar Snit is a villainous villain who is determined to steal all the fountains in the world. Why? Fountains ...