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One Goal: How Soccer Can Help Save the Planet. Heather Camlot and Drew Shannon. A boy with medium-dark skin tone, wearing a red soccer kit with black shorts, stands on a large green soccer field and winds up to kick the ball. Ahead of him, a girl with light skin tone and red hair in a ponytail, wearing the same uniform, runs toward the net where a goalkeeper in yellow stands. A crowd of people watch from the stands, andn image of the Earth, focused on North America and South America, hangs above them.

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One Goal

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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Me enoja

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Look Around, Baby!

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Any Questions?

Fly Away Home. Written by Betty Quan and illustrated by Akin Duzakin. A young girl and a woman with their backs to us hold hands and carry backpacks. The girl has medium-light skin tone and straight black hair. The woman has medium-light skin tone and black hair tied back in a ponytail. They each clutch a full bag their arms and look out across a hilly green field with a blue sky above. A group of people also carrying bags walk in the distance. Above them a flock of white birds fly through the sky.

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Fly Away Home

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Once Upon a Northern Night

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

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A Salmon for Simon

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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!

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Bear’s Winter Party

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Heroes in My Head

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The Moon Inside

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Angry Me

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Out the Window

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

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: Boobies by Nancy Vo. A Blue-footed Booby stands with its wings folded behind its back. It has a white body with black wings and a black face. Its legs and webbed feet are blue. The bird wears a green and orange hat with a wide brim. The title “Boobies” is written across the bird so that the two o’s are placed on its chest where breasts would be.

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Boobies

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Buddy and Earl

My Mom Is Like a Kite. Written by Lisl H. Detlefsen and illustrated by Nathalie Dion. A young child with light brown skin and straight black hair leans forward on a table with her arms crossed, looking up and to the right. She wears a tan sweater. To her right, Winkie, a white cat, stands on her hind legs and paws at four kite tails that have pink, yellow, red and teal bows on them.

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My Mom Is Like a Kite

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Caramba

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The Enchanted Life

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Bitter and Sweet

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The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk

A boy with light skin tone wears a jacket, boots, and mitts. He stands on top of a small, brown peak that is in front of two other peaks. Behind him the sky is patches of blue and orange. The letter “o” in the title is a snowflake. Text: Snow. Joan Clark. Pictures by Kady MacDonald Denton.

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Snow

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

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The Big Why

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A Family Is a Family Is a Family

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When I Listen to Silence

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Out of the Way! Out of the Way!

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Don't

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

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

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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Taking Turns with Turtles

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Short Stories for Little Monsters

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

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

Water laps a sandy shore. On the sand are two children. We can see their rain boots and their clothes. One wears overalls and a shirt and the other wears a pink tutu and sweater. They both hold branches like walking sticks. In the water we can see the children’s reflection. They both have light skin tone and red hair. A boy wears the overalls. A girl wears the tutu. A flower floats on the water. Text: The Biggest Puddle in the World. Mark Lee. Nathalie Dion.

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The Biggest Puddle in the World

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

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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Malaika’s Surprise

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Three Wishes

Cover: West Coast Wild Baby Animals. By Deborah Hodge. Pictures by Karen Reczuch. A mama otter embraces a baby otter on her stomach. Both otters have their eyes closed, with the baby's head resting against the mother's mouth. Green seaweed surrounds them. The illustrations are created in watercolor paints color pencil.

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West Coast Wild Baby Animals

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Night Cars

Cover: Everybelly by Thao Lam. Maddie, a child with medium skin tone, a floral long-sleeve swim top, blue swim cap and goggles, swims underwater. Air bubbles float up from her mouth to the surface. The arms and legs of a smaller child with dark skin tone in an inflatable tubeare visible on the top right edge of the page. Swimming next to the small child is the torso of a woman with dark skin tone and a yellow floral one piece swimsuit is visible.

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Everybelly

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Dodge City

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

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Sidewalk Flowers

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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A Pond, a Poet, and Three Pests

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The Honeyman Festival

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A Coyote Columbus Story

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If You Want to Visit a Sea Garden

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A Sweet Meeting on Mimouna Night

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

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Cockroach

Cover: Mrs. Nobody. Written by Y.S. Lee and illustrated by Marie Lafrance. Alice, a girl with light skin tone, black hair and mismatched socks, sits on a large tree branch facing Mrs. Nobody, who has light skin tone and a dress made from vibrant blue, red and yellow leaves. She has an extravagant matching headdress, and a gray-and-white striped tail trails out from underneath her dress.

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Mrs. Nobody

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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They Say Blue

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Busy, Busy Birds

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Blood

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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Amos's Sweater

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Zoom at Sea

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The Big Bad Wolf in My House

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A Florence Diary

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Harvey

Farming land is divided into sections. On a grassy section is a windmill, a tractor, and three chickens. A red roof looks out over the land. On the roof sits a white cat. Text: The Mostly True Story of Pudding Tat, Adventuring Cat. Caroline Adderson.

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The Mostly True Story of Pudding Tat, Adventuring Cat

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

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Deep Underwater

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

Cover: “Burying the Moon. By Andrée Poulin and Sonali Zohra.” A girl with medium-dark skin tone stands in a field, facing away from us. The girl wears sandals and a blue dress over a white shirt, and her dark hair is braided. She holds a pick and stares at the big full yellow moon. There is a hole in the ground beneath the moon. The field and sky are shades of purple, blue and pink. There are swirls in the sky behind the moon.

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Burying the Moon

It is nighttime in a forest. A full moon is in the sky. The moon has a face and looks down on a fox, who looks up. The forest is red and blue. Text: Moon Wishes. Guy and Patricia Storms. Milan Pavlović.

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Moon Wishes

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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Ne le fais pas

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Not a Baby Anymore!

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West Coast Wild ABC

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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I Found Hope in a Cherry Tree

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The Sisters Brothers

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

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West Coast Wild at Low Tide

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Doggy Slippers

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As Glenn as Can Be

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As Long as the Rivers Flow

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The Jesuit Disruptor

Cover: The Last Last. Written by Wendy J. Whittingham and illustrated by Brianna McCarthy. A young girl floats in bright blue water, smiling with her arms spread wide. Four small, brightly colored fish swim around her. She has dark skin tone with black tight-curly hair parted into twisted pigtails on either side of her head and secured by pink bobbled hair ties. Her eyes are closed as she floats, and her cheeks are a deep rosy color. She wears a pink one-piece swimsuit that has light purple polka-dots.

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The Last Last