Dirk Daring, Secret Agent

By (author) Helaine Becker
Categories: Picture storybooks: imagination and play
Series: Dirk Daring, Secret Agent

When Darren Dirkowitz’s evil stepbrother (code name Waldo) gets hold of Darren’s tippity-top-secret spy journal, he threatens to expose it to the entire Preston Middle School student body. Unless, ...

Unnatural Selections

By (artist) Wallace Edwards
Categories: Picture storybooks: imagination and play

A traveling artist takes the reader through a collection of illustrations of fantastical hybrid creatures. Beloved illustrator Wallace Edwards (Uncle Wally's Old Brown Shoe) invites us into the world ...

Piau's Potato Present

By (author) Diane Carmel Léger
Illustrated by Tamara Thiébaux-Heikalo
Categories: Children's Fiction

Did a gift of potatoes in 1768 lead to a popular dish enjoyed by Acadians today? Christian Treitz, the youngest son in a German family immigrated to the Monckton Township, learns that the trauma of the ...

When Everything Feels like the Movies

By (author) Raziel Reid
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Governor General's Literary Award winner: a glamorous boy fends off the haters with dreams of going to Hollywood.

Governor General's Literary Award winner for Children's Literature; Canada Reads 2015 ...

Most Magnificent Thing, The

By (author) Ashley Spires
Illustrated by Ashley Spires
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories
Series: Most Magnificent

Award-winning author and illustrator Ashley Spires has created a charming picture book about an unnamed girl and her very best friend, who happens to be a dog. The girl has a wonderful idea. “She is ...

Anna Carries Water

By (author) Olive Senior
Illustrated by Laura James
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

Anna fetches water from the spring every day, but she can’t carry it on her head like her older brothers and sisters. In this charming and poetic family story set in Jamaica, Commonwealth Prize-winning ...

A Gift for Sophie

By (author) Gilles Vigneault
Illustrated by Stéphane Jorisch
Other primary creator Martha Wainwright
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

Winner of:Parents' Choice Recommended Award In this touching, poetic story set by the seaside, Old Man Tom teaches Sophie and Emilio the importance of seeing the world through their hearts. Presenting ...

Once Upon a Northern Night

By (author) Jean E. Pendziwol
Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault
Categories: Picture storybooks: bedtime stories and dreams

Once Upon a Northern Night has received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal.

In this exquisite lullaby, the beauty and wonder of a northern winter night unfold, with ...

The Gift Is in the Making

By (author) Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Illustrated by Amanda Strong
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Short stories

The Gift Is in the Making retells previously published Anishinaabeg stories, bringing to life Anishinaabeg values and teachings to a new generation. Readers are immersed in a world where all genders are ...

Caribou Song

By (author) Tomson Highway
Illustrated by John Rombough
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories

Winner of the American Indian Library Association 2014 Youth Literature Award (AIYLA) for Best Picture Book

On CCBC's Best Books for Kids and Teens list 2013

Joe and Cody are young Cree brothers who follow ...