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A brown owl flies through mist. Its eyes are yellow. Its feathers are spotted and striped with different shades of brown. Text: An Owl at Sea. Susan Vande Griek. Ian Wallace.

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An Owl at Sea

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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Away

Sharing the Light: Stories and Reflections by Monique Gray Smith, featuring a colourful, beaded floral pattern with a hummingbird at the centre and a glowing yellow and orange background.

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Sharing the Light

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If You Want to Visit a Sea Garden

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niwîcihâw / I Help

Cover: A Coyote Solstice Tale by Thomas King. Illustrated by Gary Clement. It is nighttime and snowing. A beaver, an otter, a coyote, a girl with light skin tone and short black hair, a brown bear and a grey moose ride together down a snowy hill on a wooden toboggan. They wear winter scarves, jackets and hats.

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A Coyote Solstice Tale

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

Cover: procession by katherena vermette. The title and author's name all appear in white text, stylized in lower case. The backdrop is a close-up image of a beaded quilt, vibrant and detailed, with flowers, paisley, and more designs appearing. The edge of the quilt is beaded in red, and a yellow surface beneath the quilt appears at the bottom-left corner.

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Procession

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Friend or Foe?

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Stella, Star of the Sea

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Ne le fais pas

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Bear’s Winter Party

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Channel of Peace

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Tuk and the Whale

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A Storytelling of Ravens

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As Long as the Rivers Flow

An open garbage bin sits on the corner of a neighbourhood street. Behind it is a house and around are trees and bushes with flowers. A woman and a girl with light skin tone stand by the bin and pull things out of it. The woman has a shopping cart beside her that is overflowing with things. The girl holds a small robot doll. Text: Aunt Pearl. Monica Kulling. Irene Luxbacher.

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Aunt Pearl

Cover: A Love Affair with the Unknown: Leaning into the Uncertainty of Modern Life by Gill Deacon. A painting by the author of a woman in a black bathing suit jumping off a green cliff into the water below against a cloudy sky. The title is stacked over this background with the author's name below it.

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A Love Affair with the Unknown

A Place for Pauline by Anouk Mahiout. Illustrations by Marjolaine Perreten. A girl with light skin tone and short red hair wears a red dress. She lies on a long green cushion with eight small pillows and a white and orange cat curled up beside her. The girl, Pauline, has a book face down on her chest. Her arms are spread out on both sides as she looks up. Beside the cushion is a stack of books. Above her are two shelves with books and knickknacks, with a string of red flowers hanging between them.

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A Place for Pauline

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A Family Is a Family Is a Family

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Drive

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Angry Me

Cover: Pitiful by Brandi Bird. The text is white over a back backgound, with "poems" appearing in red. In the center, an illustration in red shows a hand reaching up from the ocean, through waves that also look like hands. At the bottom, a blurb reads, "Far from a whimper, Pitiful is a vital battle cry and a song." —Marya Hornbacher

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Pitiful

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Once Upon a Northern Night

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Chin Chiang and the Dragon's Dance

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Lessons from Mother Earth

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Northwest Passage

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Rooster / Gallo

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Salmon Creek

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Africville

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The Red Sash

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A Salmon for Simon

Seven Heavens Away: A Novel by Ashraf Zaghal. The title and author name appear in bold red, green, and cream letters to evoke the colours of the Palestinian flag. The background features stylized clouds, stars, a crescent moon, and the Jerusalem skyline.

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Seven Heavens Away

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As Glenn as Can Be

Cover: A Single Dreadlock. Written by Xaiver Michael Campbell and illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes. A close-up of half of a young boy’s smiling face is shown on the right side of the cover. He has dark skin tone and light brown eyes. His hair is dark brown, medium length and tightly curled, except for one single dreadlock. Over his shoulder we see a red-and-white fishing boat with a lobster trap on the back. It floats in front of a red boathouse on large wooden beams. Behind that, are rolling grassy hills.

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A Single Dreadlock

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I Found Hope in a Cherry Tree

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Deep Underwater

Cover: John Candy: A Life in Comedy, by Paul Myers. Foreword by Dan Aykroyd. A black and white photograph of the comedian and actor John Candy, shown from the chest up, wearing a tuxedo, and looking directly into the camera, with just the hint of a smile. The main title and author’s name appear in large, pink block letters. The sub-title appears in a white, handwritten typeface. The foreword attribution appears in the same block letters as the title, but smaller and in white.

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John Candy

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The Hollow under the Tree

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The White Cat and the Monk

When Spider Met Shrew by Deborah Kerbel. Illustrations by Geneviève Côté. These images were done in watercolour. A small black spider hangs down from her web that covers a corner of the image. The spider smiles at a small brown shrew who stands on his hind legs and smiles back with a wave. The sky is blue behind them.

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When Spider Met Shrew

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Night Walk

Cover: Everything Is Fine Here by Iryn Tushabe. Two black outlines of papyrus swamp plants appear in front of a green background. "A Novel" appears in smaller yellow type.

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Everything Is Fine Here

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Between Sisters

Bare, white trees line a small, round pond. Animals in shades of white peek out from the trees and tall grass. At the opposite end of the pond is a child and a dog standing in grass. They are in shades of black and white. Text: At the Pond. Geraldo Valério.

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At the Pond

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A Coyote Columbus Story

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A Sweet Meeting on Mimouna Night

Cover: Definitely Thriving, a novel, by Kerry Clare. An illustration of an upside-down green clawfoot bathtub full of bubbles is at the top of the frame, with a multicoloured stack of books at each end of the tub. A woman with light skin tone and dark hair in a messy top-knot reclines in the tub, reading. The title and author’s name are in dark blue brushstroke font set slanted on a yellow background with a few scattered open books and bubbles falling to the bottom of the frame.

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Definitely Thriving

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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

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Amos's Sweater

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Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged!

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P'ésk'a and the First Salmon Ceremony

Cover: I Make My Own Fun: A Novel by Hannah Beer. A martini glass filled with blood has a single barbie arm sticking out of the blood and is set on a bright pink background. The title appears in bold gold lettering above the glass.

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I Make My Own Fun

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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Alego

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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Shi-shi-etko

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Letters to Kafka

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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Winter Moon Song

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I Know Here

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A Pond, a Poet, and Three Pests

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Soft as Bones

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Bitter and Sweet

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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Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox

Cover: My Street Remembers. Written by Karen Krossing and illustrated by Cathie Jamieson. Paintings were inspired by illustrator’s Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee background, showing organic shapes in thick outlines. A turtle crawls along the sand, leaving footprints behind. The sky is blue. Grass grows above, and under it there is dark earth with a long, curving black line bisected by shorter vertical lines. Pictured on the left side of the page is half of a medicine wheel ringed with a braided grass ring.

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My Street Remembers

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All Our Relations

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The Black Book of Colors

Cover: Community Snowman. Story by Deborah Kerbel. Illustrated by Tine Modeweg-Hansen. This book is wordless and laid out in a graphic novel style. There are three snowy scenes stacked on top of each other against a blue background of people of various ages and skin tones pushing large balls of snow alone or together in colourful winter clothing.

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Community Snowman

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Tokyo Digs a Garden

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Two White Rabbits

Two loons float on a lake at dawn. One loon has two grey, fluffy ducklings on its back. The loon’s head is out of the frame. Text: Loon. Susan Vande Griek. Pictures by Karen Reczuch.

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Loon

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

All That Grows. Words and pictures by Jack Wong. A close-up shows a boy’s face as he stares wide-eyed at four tiny green plants that have sprouted in a bed of soil. The boy has medium skin tone and brown eyes. The title is hand-lettered in green, and the author’s name is in pink.

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All That Grows

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Caramba

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Any Questions?

On Wholeness: Anishinaabe Pathways to Embodiment and Collective Liberation by Quill Christie-Peters. The cover features abstract, colourful artwork against a brown background. Organic shapes, some humanlike, and swirling lines reminiscent of waterways and galaxies flow out of a dark hole with red blood dripping from its bottom edge. The hole is flanked by two bears and two thunderbirds on either side.

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On Wholeness

This image is in shades of black and white. A black shape like an oval with pointed ends in is the middle of the page. A boy is in the middle of the shape. Text: A Serious Thought. Jonas Taul.

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A Serious Thought

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Sidewalk Flowers

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Out the Window

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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Cover: Inheritance, a novel, by Jane Park. A silver eunjangdo (Korean ornamental knife in a sheath) with a blue tassel and a yellow crysanthemum over a background illustration of a prairie grassland. The title Inheritance is set in the top third of the cover and the author's name at the bottom.

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Inheritance

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When I Listen to Silence

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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Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall

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I Wish I Could Draw

Cover: The All + Flesh, poems by Brandi Bird. A vibrant, impressionist-style painting of a golden sunset over a red horizon. The sky blends from teal at the top to a bright yellow around the white sun, which reflects like a flaming spotlight on the ground. The brush strokes are cross-hatched in the sky, giving the appearance of downward motion, while the ground appears sponged.

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The All + Flesh

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