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Cover: “Sunny Days Inside and Other Stories. Caroline Adderson.” The word “Inside” is highlighted in yellow. There is a beige brick wall and on the left is the end of an apartment balcony. A kid with black hair, brown eyes and medium-dark skin tone is wearing a yellow hoodie, black jogging shorts, white sports socks and blue and black running shoes. The kid leans against the balcony railing, arms crossed, looking pensive. To the right and above is a shadow of the bottom of a second balcony one floor up.

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Sunny Days Inside

This image is in shades of black and white. A child with light skin tone stands in front of a public transit stop in front of a few short buildings. They are in winter clothes with a red hat. The stop has a sign over it written in a Slavic language. Text: A Year Without Mom. Dasha Tolstikova.

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A Year Without Mom

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A Family Is a Family Is a Family

Monster Mender. Written by Christine Baldacchino and illustrated by Ilona Iske. A woman reaches up to gently hold the snout of a large green sea serpent. The woman has long grey hair with bangs, blue eyes and light skin tone. She wears a green dress underneath a burgundy smock, with burgundy tights and black shoes. The sea serpent’s long tail is wrapped in a circle, framing the title.

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Monster Mender

The Remembering Stone by Carey Sookocheff. A girl and an older man with light skin tone, and a white and brown dog, stand on the edge of a body of water, facing us. A stone the man has just thrown skips toward us. The girl has shoulder-length brown hair with a hair bow, and wears blue overalls, a long-sleeved white and grey striped shirt, and tan shoes. The man is bald with grey hair on the side of his head, and wears a brown cardigan over a white collared shirt, grey checked pants, and grey shoes.

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The Remembering Stone

Afikomen by Tziporah Cohen. Art by Yaara Eshet. The cover is divided into two panels. Panel 1: Three children peek out from under a blue cloth. They include a young girl in a yellow dress, an older boy in a white shirt and an even older girl in a green dress. They all have medium-light skin tone and brown hair. The boy holds a small gray dog. Panel 2: In the foreground is a river where five black birds swim. Reeds grow on the far side of the river, and palm trees and pyramids are in the desert beyond.

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Afikomen

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They Say Blue

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Arctic Adventures

Cover: Bury the Lead: a Quill and Packet mystery by Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti. The cover illustration shows a woman with dark hair and stark features peeking out from behind a red curtain, as if looking out from backstage. There is a blurb at the top which reads, “A whodunit that had me turning pages as fast as I could … an absolute delight!” —Marissa Stapley, New York Times bestselling author of Lucky

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Bury the Lead

Cover: Momma’s Going to March. By Jennifer Maruno and Vivian Rosas. A woman holds up a white banner, with two children following her against a green background. The woman has medium-light skin tone, brown hair and is wearing a pink crop top. Her banner shows the title text. Behind her, a boy with light skin tone and short brown hair holds his fist up, with his other hand cupped around his mouth. Beside him, a girl with medium skin tone and brown hair in pigtails holds up a sign with a pink heart on it.

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Momma's Going to March

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Nocturne

Walking Trees by Marie-Louise Gay. A girl with pale skin tone and black hair walks while holding a leash in one hand and a watering can in the other. In the background there is a city scape depicted as white line drawings against a forest-green background. Seagulls fly across the scene. Leaves sprout from the title lettering.

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Walking Trees

Book cover for “Every Space Between” by Naseem Hrab and John Martz. The cover is split in three sections: day, blank white space and night. On the left, a child with medium skin tone and straight black hair runs in daylight under a pale yellow sun. On the right, a white dog with black and brown spots and a red collar runs happily under a night sky filled with stars and a crescent moon. The large orange title text “EVERY SPACE BETWEEN” fills the space in the centre with the creator names below in light blue.

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Every Space Between

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The Bush Garden

It is snowing. An up-close view of the corner of a bus window shows a child with light skin tone sitting inside right next to the window. They wear a hat and scarf. Inside the window are the silhouettes of people standing and holding on to the bus railings. A busy city street with cars stopped at a red light and tall buildings are in the reflection of the window. Text: Small in the city. Sydney Smith.

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Small in the City

We see the back of a boy with light skin tone and blond hair. He wears a pink jacket with dark pink sketches and drawings along the bottom and sleeves. It takes up most of the cover. A girl with light skin tone and black hair stands in front of him with her hands around his neck and shoulders. One of her eyes is visible over his shoulder. Behind them are tropical plants and a power line. Text: Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me. Mariko Tamaki. New York Times Bestselling Author. Rosemary Valero-O’Connell.

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Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

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Louis Undercover

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Short Stories for Little Monsters

In a green border is the title is at the top in English, “My First Words in Nahuat.” On the left in Nahuat, “Tay naja nitajtaketzji achtu tik Nawat”. On the right in Spanish, “Mis primeras palabras en nahuat.” The authors’ names, Jorge Argueta and El Aleph Sanchez, are below, with “Yujyultawawasul, Poems, Poemas.” In the centre are three children with medium-dark skin tone in colourful crowns. Behind them stand two men with red skin tone, blue beards and black brows. In the background is a village.

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Tay naja nitajtaketzki achtu tik Nawat / ‌Mis primeras palabras en nahuat / My First Words in Nahuat‌

Cover: "Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh / This Is How I Know. Brittany Luby. Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley". An Anishinaabe child and her grandmother walk along a dirt path. The child races ahead, long black hair streaming behind. The grandmother, with long white hair, follows. In the background are green bushes and a cluster of leafy trees.

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Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh / This Is How I Know

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Lessons from Mother Earth

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The Traveling Circus

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Alego

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Kim's Convenience

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Canadian Railroad Trilogy

Cover: Boozhoo! Hello! By Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley. Translated by Mary Ann Corbiere. A wolf is drawn in a Woodland art style, made out of simple organic shapes with smoothed, rounded lines. The wolf walks across the page while looking up at the title. It has a black head, and its body is made up of several different shapes with varying designs in blue, orange, red and green. The background is orange.

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Boozhoo! / Hello!

Sometimes I Feel Like an Oak, by Danielle Daniel and Jackie Traverse. A young girl stands at the base of a large, leafy tree, looking up. The girl has medium skin tone, long black hair in a single braid, and wears a purple shirt and long purple skirt, with mocassins on her feet. The sky in the background is made up of swirling patterns and shapes in rainbow colors.

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Sometimes I Feel Like an Oak

Skating Wild on an Inland Sea. Written by Jean E. Pendziwol, illustrated by Todd Stewart. Two children skate on the blue-green ice of a large lake. Their skate marks form the curves and loops of the white letters in the title. Tree-covered islands appear in the background, beneath a bright blue sky.

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Skating Wild on an Inland Sea

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The Universe Within

Cover: Maggie Lou Meets Her Match. By Arnolda Dufour Bowes. Two young girls stand back-to-back. One of them has medium skin tone and dark, curly hair pulled into a messy bun at the back of her head. Her T-shirt says BANNOCK SLAPPERS on the front. She has one eyebrow raised and is smirking while her arms are crossed in front of her chest. There's a band-aid on her arm. The other girl has light skin tone and her curly orange hair flows down her back. She waves while she smiles and looks over her shoulder.

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Maggie Lou Meets Her Match

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Skim

Wildful. Kengo Kurimoto. A young girl sits on a fallen log in the woods, with a black dog beside her. Branches and vines tangle together to form a canopy over their heads, and the silhouette of a deer is visible behind them. The girl has light skin tone, black hair in pigtails, and wears a striped shirt and black pants.

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Wildful

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The Hollow under the Tree

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Noopiming

A man with medium dark skin tone stands in a doorway and holds the two doors open. Inside the space are large machines with gears. Text: Explosion at the Poem Factory. Kyle Lukoff and Mark Hoffmann.

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Explosion at the Poem Factory

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The Breadwinner

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Good Night, Commander

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The Sunshine Project

Cover: Colonel Parkinson in Charge: A Wry Reflection of my Incurable Illness by François Gravel, translated by Shelley Pomerance. The title is set in yellow against a bright, light teal background, above a white outline sketch of the brain and brain stem. There are approximately 20 small starbursts and dots in yellow, blue, red, and white scattered around the illustration of the brain.

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Colonel Parkinson in Charge

A black tree is against a yellow background. The tree has white fruit shaped like pears and black leaves. The silhouette of a girl and a chicken are in the tree sitting on a high branch. Text: How to Bee. Bren MacDibble.

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How to Bee

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Buddy and Earl Meet the Neighbors

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Up in the Tree

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Winter Moon Song

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Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

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Away

Two pairs of legs face each other. The rest of the bodies are out of frame, but they are laying back and their feet are on the ground. One person wear jeans with holes in the legs with red high-top canvas sneakers. The other person wears yellow pants with pink socks and blue sneakers that have a hole in one toe. Small doodles on the cover show a flower, a crown, and an eight-pronged star. Text: A Boy Named Queen. Sara Cassidy.

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A Boy Named Queen

A man with light skin tone and brown hair does a handstand. He wears a black and yellow striped sweater and black pants. In front of him is a white dog. The background is a swirl of coloured stripes. Text: Your Turn, Adrian. Helena Öberg. Kristin Lidström.

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Your Turn, Adrian

Mnoomin maan’gowing/The Gift of Mnoomin. Written by Brittany Luby, illustrated by Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley, translated by Mary Ann Corbiere. A field of mnoomin plants grow in the water, where a canoe holds three people. A man stands in the canoe holding a long pole that extends down into the water. Two ducks swim in the foreground, where ripe seed heads of mnoomin appear. An eagle soars against a background of pink and gold clouds. A faint brushstroke flows across the scene.

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Mnoomin maan'gowing / The Gift of Mnoomin

Cover: Dangerous Memory, Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed by Charlie Angus, author of the Trillium Award finalist Cobalt. Title appears in black, bold letters on two white bands against a black and turquoise background. Below is a silhouette of a crowd of activists holding up a megaphone and placards protesting nuclear weapons.

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Dangerous Memory

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Grant and Tillie Go Walking

Maybe a Whale by Kirsten Pendreigh and Crystal Smith. From a bird’s eye view, two people are seen sitting in a yellow kayak paddling across the calm, open ocean. Their paddling creates small, white curls in the light blue water. A large silhouette of a humpback whale is visible swimming below the water, beside the kayak. The head of a second whale is seen swimming on the other side of the kayak.

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Maybe a Whale

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Pirate Queen

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Hey Dad!

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A Short History of Progress

A Friend Is a Friend Is a Friend. Written by Sara O’Leary and illustrated by Qin Leng. A group of fifteen children of various skin tones perch and swing playfully from the branches of a tree.

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A Friend Is a Friend Is a Friend

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Angry Me

My Subway Runs. Written by James Gladstone and illustrated by Pierre Pratt. A group of people on a subway platform wait for the train doors to open. A little kid with light skin tone, short black hair and a blue jacket holds their mom’s hand and looks back over their right shoulder. Mom has light skin tone, long blonde hair, and wears a red coat. A hat appears to have blown away from a tall man’s head and flies over the title “My Subway Runs.”

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My Subway Runs

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Kisimi Taimaippaktut Angirrarijarani / Only in My Hometown

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Does State Spying Make Us Safer?

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A Pond, a Poet, and Three Pests

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Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress

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Read Me a Story, Stella

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Harvey

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Winter

Cover: “A Kid is a Kid is a Kid, written by Sara O’Leary, illustrated by Qin Leng.” The title looks like it has been printed by a child in different colored crayons. Beneath the title is a group of fourteen kids, illustrated in ink and watercolor. Some look out at us; others talk, laugh, play or wave, having a busy, noisy good time.

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A Kid Is a Kid Is a Kid

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Three Wishes

Cover: Blanket by Ruth Ohi. A white cat with grey fur around each eye is named Cat. Cat wears a pajama shirt and pants that are yellow with red polka dots. Cat sits and holds their knees to their chest under a blue blanket. Across from Cat sits a white dog with grey fur around the eyes and floppy ears. Their name is Dog. They wear a blue sweater with green stripes and white pants. Dog rests their hands on their knees and touches their forehead to Cat’s. They both smile.

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Blanket

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Out of the Way! Out of the Way!

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Biology As Ideology

It is snowing on a busy city street. Shops line the street with single story apartments above them. The title of the book is shown as a shop’s sign. People walk along the sidewalk in winter clothes. Cars and trucks drive on the snowy road. The author and illustrator’s names are shown on the sides of trucks. Text: My Winter City. Words by James Gladstone. Pictures by Gary Clement.

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My Winter City

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Sit

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Any Questions?

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Ancient Thunder

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Cockroach

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The White Cat and the Monk

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Avis Dolphin

An open door shows the view into a living room with a bookshelf, a sitting chair, and a side table with cookies and milk on it. A girl with light skin tone and brown hair looks around the open door from inside the living room. She wears purple glasses, purple headphones, and a yellow-striped sweater. She carries a book with a yellow flower between the pages as a bookmark. When the title has a letter “I” it is dotted with this yellow flower. Text: Violet Shrink. Christine Baldacchino. Pictures by Carmen Mok.

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Violet Shrink

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The Breadwinner: A Graphic Novel

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French Exit

Maggie Lou, Firefox. By Arnolda Dufour Bowes. A girl with medium skin tone and curly brown hair is flanked by two dogs: one brown, the other black and white. She wears boxing gloves around her neck, a yellow sweater, blue vest, green shorts and mismatched knee socks. There is a white bandage around one knee. She stands on grass against a purple sky and a pink and orange sun.

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Maggie Lou, Firefox

Go, stories by Deborah Ellis. The background is pale green. Clockwise from the top are six illustrations: A purple basket of various home items, two floor cushions around a wood Go game board covered in black and white pieces; an upside-down dog bowl surrounded by dog kibble and broken glass; an orange shirt, white towel, bar of soap and a toothbrush; a shovel in front of a gravestone; a white chair and a pink purse by a potted tree; and a pair of shoes, red cup and a race bib with the number forty-four.

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Go

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Mandaderos de la lluvia / Messengers of Rain

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Letters to Kafka

Two small hills have two brick structures on them, and the further one has a swing set. On the nearest hill are two boys, one with light skin tone and the other with dark skin tone, flying a kite shaped like a yellow dragon. A woman with light skin tone stands by a dead tree watching them. She wears a head scarf and glasses. The sun shines in the sky behind the brick buildings. Text: The Playgrounds of Babel. Jonarno Lawson. Piet Grobler.

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The Playgrounds of Babel

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The Spotted Dog Last Seen

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Travels with My Family

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Rooster / Gallo

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Africville

Cover: However Far Away by Rajinderpal S. Pal. A face and shoulders in purple with features obscured in shadow. The figure is wearing orange over-the-ear headphones and a green shirt. The words A Novel appear in white type across the green shirt. Text: A beautiful debut novel about the calamitous aftereffects of decisions made and unmade, secrets kept and spilled. Omar El Akkad.

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However Far Away

Leo and Ralph. Written by Peter Carnavas. A dark blue night sky is dotted with shining stars. The title of the book is placed centerfold in light blue with the author’s name appearing underneath in white. Sitting on the letter “O” of “LEO” is a tiny white figure that looks like a little boy looking up through a telescope. A ringed planet hangs in the sky. A furry yellow alien appears at the bottom of the cover from neck-up with a wide-eyed smile on his face.

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Leo and Ralph