The Day Dancer Flew

By (author) Tiffany Stone
Illustrated by Brittany Lane
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories

In this beautiful picture book inspired by real events, a young girl works to rescue her horse after a devastating flood.

Dancer is a gentle and loving horse. He got his name because of how he moves his ...

Let's Get Creative

By (author) Jessica Rose
Illustrated by Jarett Sitter
Categories: Children’s / Teenage: Social issues
Series: Orca Think

Environmental artists across the globe are using their creativity to help the environment and create a more sustainable world.

There’s no question that creating art makes our lives better. Just think ...

Have You Seen an Elephant?

By (author) Elina Ellis
Illustrated by Elina Ellis
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: General knowledge and interesting facts
Series: Alex's Field Guides

A girl's hilariously unsuccessful search for elephants serves as a clever allegory for the disappearance of these iconic animals. The first book in a series focused on endangered animals.

Meet Alex. She's ...

My Bunny Lies Over the Ocean

By (author) Bill Richardson
Illustrated by Bill Pechet
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

Award-winning duo Bill Richardson and Bill Pechet are back with another brilliantly funny and charmingly quirky picture book—My Bunny Lies Over the Ocean. When a beloved stuffed toy gets left at the ...

Wild Trails to the Sea

By (author) Penelope Jackson
Illustrated by Elena Skoreyko Wagner
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories

A tender story celebrating the natural world and our place within it, featuring lyrical verse and bold, tactile paper-collage illustrations.

A tender and lyrical story celebrating the natural world and ...

Get Outside!

By (author) Leah Payne
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Ecosystems
Series: Orca Footprints

We know spending time in nature is good for us, but why? And how did people become so disconnected from the natural world, anyway?

Get Outside! How Humans Connect with Nature explores the important relationship ...

Making Sense of Dog Senses

By (author) Stephanie Gibeault
Illustrated by Raz Latif
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Pets and pet care: Dogs

A playful yet scientifically precise exploration of a dog’s five senses that will help middle grade readers better appreciate the canine point of view (for ages 8-12)

Did you know that dogs have millions ...

I Am A Rock

By (author) Ashley Qilavaq-Savard
Illustrated by Pelin Turgut
Categories: Picture storybooks: imagination and play

Pauloosie loves his pet rock, Miki Rock. Pauloosie’s Anaana, his mother, tells him a bedtime story about what Miki Rock sees, hears, and feels in his Arctic home. As part of the land, Miki Rock sees ...

Club Microbe

By (author) Élise Gravel
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Science and technology

It's a germ’s world. We’re just living in it!
In Club Microbe, Elise Gravel teaches young readers that germs live all around us—and even inside of us! Guided by Gravel in this formidable introduction ...

Wake Up, Little Pin!

By (author) Loretta Garbutt
Illustrated by Marianne Ferrer
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Plants and trees

It’s early spring, and Mother Pin Oak enlists the help of her forest family to wake her sleepy sapling

When Mother Pin Oak wakes to crisp, spring air and cannot seem to stir her Little Pin Oak growing ...