Alone Together

By (author) Petti Fong
Illustrated by Jonathan Dyck
Categories: Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Emotions, moods and feelings
Series: Orca Think

The world is facing an epidemic of loneliness.

The COVID-19 pandemic taught us new words, like isolation, quarantine and social distancing. In places like the UK and Japan, governments have appointed ministers ...

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 ...

Walking Trees

By (author) Marie-Louise Gay
Illustrated by Marie-Louise Gay
Categories: Picture storybooks: imagination and play

Lily wants a tree for her birthday. Although she and her father live in a tiny dark apartment, she promises to give it water and sun and air. But after she receives her tree—whom she names George—even ...

We Need Everyone

By (author) Michael Redhead Champagne
Illustrated by Tiff Bartel
Categories: Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Diversity and inclusion

Everyone has a gift. Every gift is different, and every gift is special. Our world needs you to share your gift.

What is your gift? How can you use your gift to help others?

We Need Everyone empowers children ...

When the Ocean Came to Town

By (author) Sal Sawler
Illustrated by Emma FitzGerald
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories

A love letter to the ocean, and to adapting to climate change, the newest picture book by award-winning creators Sal Sawler and Emma FitzGerald will inspire young readers to build better solutions, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lore Isle

By (author) Jiin Kim
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy

A middle-grade fantasy that follows a young boy into a magical land of mummers, sprites, fairies, and murderous pitcher plants in an attempt to save his home — and his family.

Everyone knows there are ...

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 ...