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, ...

The Grizzly Mother

By (author) Hetxw’ms Gyetxw Brett D. Huson
Illustrated by Natasha Donovan
Categories: Early years: time and seasons
Series: Mothers of Xsan

To the Gitxsan people of northwestern British Columbia, the grizzly is an integral part of the natural landscape. Together, they share the land and forests that the Skeena River runs through, as well ...

The Sockeye Mother

By (author) Hetxw’ms Gyetxw Brett D. Huson
Illustrated by Natasha Donovan
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples
Series: Mothers of Xsan

To the Gitxsan people of northwestern British Columbia, the sockeye salmon is more than just a source of food. Over its life cycle, it nourishes the very land and forests that the Skeena River runs through ...

Animals Illustrated: Narwhal

By (author) Solomon Awa
Illustrated by Hwei Lim
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Fish and marine life
Series: Animals Illustrated

Animals Illustrated mixes fun-filled animal facts suitable for the youngest of readers with intricately detailed illustrations to create a unique and beautiful collection of children’s books on Arctic ...

Brilliant!

By (author) Michelle Mulder
Categories: Educational: Technology
Series: Orca Footprints

Did you know that cars can run on french-fry grease or that human poop can be used to provide power to classrooms? Kids in Mexico help light up their houses by playing soccer, and in the Philippines, ...

Escape to Gold Mountain

By (author) David H.T. Wong
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples

Winner, Chinese American Library Association Best Book Award winner (Fiction)

The history of Chinese immigration to Canada and the US over the past 100-plus years has been fraught with sadness and indignity; ...

Fatty Legs

By (author) Christy Jordan-Fenton & Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton
Categories: Children's Nonfiction

The moving memoir of an Inuit girl who emerges from a residential school with her spirit intact. Eight-year-old Margaret Pokiak has set her sights on learning to read, even though it means leaving her ...

Come and Learn With Me

By (author) Sheyenne Jumbo & Mindy Willett
Photographs by Tessa Macintosh
Categories: Children's Nonfiction
Series: The Land is Our Storybook

Nine-year-old Sheyenne lives in Sambaa K’e, Northwest Territories-that’s Trout Lake in English. Come learn with her as she takes you on a journey to her community in the fall, the season of moose. ...

Living Stories

By (author) Therese Zoe, Philip Zoe & Mindy Willett
Photographs by Tessa Macintosh
Categories: Children's Nonfiction
Series: The Land is Our Storybook

In Living Stories, Therese Zoe translates the stories and traditional wisdom of Tlicho Elders Philip Zoe and Elizabeth Chocolate.

Therese Zoe is a Tlicho woman from Gamèti in the Northwest Territories. ...

The Bite of the Mango

By (author) Mariatu Kamara
With Susan Elizabeth McClelland
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography

The astounding story of one girl’s journey from war victim to UNICEF Special Representative. As a child in a small rural village in Sierra Leone, Mariatu Kamara lived peacefully surrounded by family ...