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When Emily Carr Met Woo by Monica Kulling and Dean Griffiths
People in Victoria, British Columbia, didn’t understand Emily Carr’s art. They didn’t understand her either. She lived with a menagerie of animals that included dogs and cats, a parrot named Jane,...
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Andrea’s Fiddle by Blaine Klippenstein et Christie Jedele
Before he gives her the old fiddle, Andrea’s grandfather tells her the story of how it came to be made, a story that dates back some 150 years. It is a story that begins with her great, great, great...
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Who Wants Rocks? by Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak and Vladyana Langer Krykorka
Little Mountain loves her quiet corner of world, with its trees and streams, its birds and goats and rabbits, and the majestic mountains that surround it. She loves the rhythms of the seasons, and...
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From There to Here by Laurel Croza and Matt James
The girl and her family used to live in a trailer at the edge of a gravel road in Saskatchewan, where her father was working on the construction of a hydro electric dam. There were forests of trees...
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Born! A Foal, Five Kittens and Confederation by Deirdre Kessler and Brenda Jones
It is September 1864, and Charlottetown, capital of the colony of Prince Edward Island, is abuzz with excitement. All the hotels are full. The circus is in town, the local cricket club is playing a...
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The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires
A regular girl and her best friend in the world, a small spotted dog, do all kinds of things together. They race along the sidewalk, she on her scooter and he running along beside, eat, relax, and...
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Bear on the Homefront by Stephanie Innes and Harry Endrulat
In August 1940, Nurse Aileen Rogers stands on the pier at Halifax harbour waiting to meet a ship full of English children. They have been sent by their families to spend the rest of World War II in...
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Loula Is Leaving for Africa by Anne Villeneuve
Fed up with her brothers’ behaviour, Loula decides that she’s had enough. She packs her bag and announced that she’s going to Africa. Preoccupied by their own interests, her parents greet her...
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Chung Lee Loves Lobsters by Hugh MacDonald and Johnny Wales
Five-year-old Bizzer and his ten-year-old brother Wally know all about Mr. Chung Lee. He immigrated to Canada from China and, for thirty-five years, he cooked lobsters at their mother’s restaurant in...
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The Olden Days Coat by Margaret Laurence and Muriel Wood
It is Christmas but, for the first time in her life, ten-year-old Sal isn’t looking forward to celebrating. Rather than spending the holiday in their own house, she and her parents have come to stay...
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Scaredy Squirrel Prepares for Christmas by Mélanie Watt
The Christmas season is approaching, along with its attendant stress and worry. But fear not because Scaredy Squirrel has some timely advice that will make this Christmas a breeze. Scaredy Squirrel,...
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Not My Girl by Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton and Gabrielle...
Ten-year-old Margaret is thrilled to be home after two long years away at residential school. Home at last to her mother and father and younger siblings. Home to her family’s tent and sled dogs. Home...
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Arizona Charlie and the Klondike Kid by Julie Lawson and Kasia Charko
When he comes to Dawson City in 1899, Arizona Charlie is the best cowboy in all the world, and, from the moment he spots Arizona Charlie gallop after and lasso a runaway horse, young Ben wants to be...
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Go Home Bay by Susan Van Griek and Pascal Milelli
Gentle the west wind blows on Go Home Bay in summer of 1914 as a canoe approaches West Wind Island. A girl watches from the shore. Tom Thomson, landscape painter, has come at her father’s invitation...
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The Boxing Champion by Roch Carrier and Sheldon Cohen
April brought spring to Ste. Justine, Québec. The boys hated spring. The rink melted and spelled the end of the hockey season. Until the snow flew again, there would be nothing but school and...
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P’ésk’a and the First Salmon Ceremony by Scot Ritchie
It is spring and an important day for the Sts’ailes people. They will celebrate the First Salmon Ceremony to thank the river for the salmon it brings. Young P’ésk’a awakens to find that his family is...
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Roll On: Rick Hansen Wheels Around the World by Ainslie Manson and Ron Lightburn
In 1985, Rick Hansen, who was thrown from the back of a pickup truck at age 15 and paralyzed from the waist down, starts a two-year marathon around the world in his wheelchair to raise awareness about...
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The Stone Thrower by Jael Ealey Richardson and Matt James
Chuck Ealey won every game he quarterbacked in high school. He also won every game he quarterbacked at the University of Toledo, more than any other quarterback in college football history. Yet, after...
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The Strongest Man in the World: Louis Cyr by Nicolas Debon
November 1900. The crowds are lining up outside the circus tent of Le Cirque L. Cyr for the evening’s performance. They have come to see jugglers, acrobats, contortionists and clowns, but mostly they...
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The Huron Carol illustrated by Frances Tyrrell and by Ian Wallace
T’was in the moon of wintertime when all the birds had fled That mighty Gitchi Manitou sent angel choirs instead. So begins the Huron Carol, written by Jean de Brébeuf in about 1642 on the shores of...
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