The Mermaid Handbook

By (author) Taylor Widrig
Illustrated by Briana Corr Scott
Introduction by Dr. Alan Critchley
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Cooking and food

The book mermaids-in-training have been waiting for. From history and folklore to recipes and tips for ocean preservation, as well as profiles and original illustrations of mer-maidens from around the ...

Caillou: Everything Will Be Fine

Text by Christine L'heureux
Illustrated by Eric Sévigny
Categories: Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Body and health
Series: Playtime

Caillou is at day care, playing dinosaurs with his friends, when their caregiver tells them something very important: a new sickness is going around. Caillou learns that the best way to protect himself ...

Golden Threads

By (author) Suzanne Del Rizzo
Illustrated by Miki Sato
Categories: Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Emotions, moods and feelings

A beloved toy fox becomes lost, tattered, repaired, and loved for his imperfections. Golden Threads is inspired by the Japanese art form of kintsugi, or golden joinery, where broken pottery is repaired ...

The Dog Patrol

By (author) Rob Laidlaw
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Pets and pet care: Dogs

A full-colour dog book unlike any other delving into the history and evolution of dogs as companions, empowering young readers to promote the health and happiness of dogs in their own lives.
“Clear, ...

What If Soldiers Fought with Pillows?

By (author) Heather Camlot
Illustrated by Serge Bloch
Categories: Children’s / Teenage: Social issues

What if the impossible were actually possible? What if we turned our dreams into action? What if our imagination could help solve real-world crises, like war, famine, and human rights violations?

Through ...

Portrait in Poems, A

By (author) Evie Robillard
Illustrated by Rachel Katstaller
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Art and artists

A delightful introduction to one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century art and literature. Here’s an insider’s tour of the lives of Gertrude Stein and her partner, Alice B. Toklas, ...

Go Go Eco: Tin Can

By (author) Tiny & Tim
Categories: Early years / early learning concepts

What happens when you recycle everyday objects? Follow the amazing journey of a tin can and discover that it’s not just trash after all.
Titles in the series: Tin Can, Apple, T-Shirt, Comic. Wheel ...

5 Rhinos

By (author) Anne Dagg
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Large land mammals

Following on the successful publication of 5 Elephants, and 5 Giraffes, this illustrated book brings the story of the endangered rhinoceros to the attention of young readers who, while they might never ...

Be a Weather Detective

By (author) Peggy Kochanoff
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Science and technology
Series: Be a Nature Detective

Why do dogs hate thunder? Is every snowflake really different? Where does wind come from? Naturalist and artist Peggy Kochanoff answers these questions and more in this illustrated guide to solving weather ...

A Pocket of Time

By (author) Rita Wilson
Illustrated by Emma FitzGerald
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography

Before becoming a Pulitzer-Prize winning writer, Elizabeth Bishop lived with her Gammie and Pa on a rural farm, learning to walk, to read and write, to sing hymns, and to catch bumblebees in foxglove ...