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The mid-section of a tree shows thick branches and many bunches of green leaves. A girl with light skin tone and brown hair sits in a branch wearing a blue nightgown. Text: The Bird in Me Flies. Sara Lundberg.

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The Bird in Me Flies

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The Greats

Cover: Taming Papa by Mylène Goupil. Translated by Shelley Tanaka. A young girl with medium-light skin tone and chin-length black hair sits at a table, looking into the distance with her chin in her hand. In front of her, there is a plate of mac and cheese, a glass of juice, some paper and a pen. Behind her, a man with medium-light skin tone and short black hair sits on a couch, watching TV. The room is dim. The window blinds are closed.

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Taming Papa

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Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2026

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The Sunshine Project

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Caramba

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Book Uncle and Me

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A Salmon for Simon

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

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Between Sisters

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Travels with My Family

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Grandmother’s Visit

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Any Questions?

Cover: We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine by Deni Ellis Béchard. The words of the title and author's name are composed of small pink and yellow dots against a turquoise background. The dots are sparse at the top of the page and become more dense moving down the cover, giving the impression of something coming into focus. "A Novel" appears in small white type.

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We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine

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I Found Hope in a Cherry Tree

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Harvey

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

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Last Week

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The Big Why

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

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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Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox

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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The Exiles' Gallery

Cover: Birds on the Brain. By Uma Krishnaswami. Three kids stand on an apartment building rooftop. The girl on the left has medium-dark skin tone, wears her black hair in pigtails and holds a book called "Birds." The girl in the middle has medium skin tone, black hair in looping breads and holds a pair of binoculars. The boy on the right has medium-light skin tone, short black hair and wears a karate uniform. He does a karate pose. Birds of varying species fly in the sky over them.

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Birds on the Brain

Cover: Sometimes I Eat with My Hands by Kid Haile, illustrated in a watercolor art style. A young girl with medium-dark skin tone and curly hair in pigtails wears a white T-shirt covered in spaghetti stains. She sits in a highchair holding out fistfuls of spaghetti. The tray in front of her is covered in noodles and an empty pink bowl. in the background there is a stuffed panda covered in noodles, and a baby crawling on the floor toward a tipped-over sippy cup. The background is green with a white border.

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Sometimes I Eat with My Hands

Cover: Home For Margaret. Written by Denise Davy. Illustrated by Bérengère Delaporte. A young girl sits with a woman in the snow in front of a blue tent surrounded by bare trees. The girl has medium light skin tone and curly black hair in two buns, and the woman has light skin tone; medium length gray hair and both their cheeks and nose are rosy. The woman’s hands are tucked into her jacket pocket, while the girl raises her arm as she is talking. Beside the young girl in the snow is a white grocery bag.

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Home for Margaret

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

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The Quiet

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

Cover: The Outsmarters, by Deborah Ellis. A young girl leans against a tree trunk, looking back at a shed in a yard full of sunlit grass. She has light skin tone and chin-length hair, and she and the tree are shadowed in the foreground. Across the yard, an orange cat sits on top of the worn shed and returns her gaze. A roulette wheel is propped against the falling-apart shed wall. A fence lines the background, with trees behind it against a light blue sky.

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The Outsmarters

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The Breadwinner: A Graphic Novel

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

A gold birdcage is against an orange background. A light blue silhouette shows two birds on a branch in the cage. Text: We Two Alone. Jack Wang. “With ingenuity and impeccable craft, Jack Wang gives us an utterly remarkable collection.” Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer.

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We Two Alone

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Angry Me

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Three Wishes

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The Breadwinner

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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

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No Pain Like This Body

Cover: “Aquí era el paraíso. Here Was Paradise. Humberto Ak’abal. Poemas seleccionados. Selected Poems. Arte por / Art by Amelia Lau Carling.” A jaguar head painted in watercolor fills the foreground. The background is composed of green hills covered with people, animals, a house, a pickup truck and trees, and a blue body of water where people bathe. The bottom quarter of the background behind the hills is turquoise, and the top three quarters are orange.

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Aquí era el paraíso / Here Was Paradise

José Speaks Out, speech by José Mujica, commentary by Dolors Camats, translation by Sofía Jarrín and illustrations by Guridi. The silhouette of an old man, visible from the shoulders up, is depicted in black ink against a splash of yellow. The man has short hair and a mustache, and wears a checked collared shirt under a jacket.

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José Speaks Out

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Ten Small Tales

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The Burrowing Owls of the Prairie Grasslands

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Swimming Lessons

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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Step

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

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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The Quiet

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The Big Bad Wolf in My House

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Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress

One More Mountain by Deborah Ellis. This image is made of eight scenes on an orange background. First, 4 women in hijabs protest on a street. Second, 3 glasses sit on a tray next to a tea pot. Third, a white truck carries soldiers. Fourth, a person wearing a burqa sits under a tree. Fifth, a man holds a bunch of balloons. Sixth, a boy stands on a roof and watches a plane taking off. Seventh, 3 soldiers with guns sit in a teacup. Eighth, a boy with medium skin tone looks at a globe on a table.

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One More Mountain

Small white dots are on a blue background. There are also six small star shapes among the dots. At the bottom is a dense section of darker blue lines. A pile of three books lay on top of those lines. The title of the book on top reads “Astronomy”. A person and a dog are on top of the books looking up at the dots and stars. Wavy sections of lines cross through the dots and stars. Text: Clear Skies. Jessica Scott Kerrin.

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Clear Skies

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When the Doves Disappeared

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

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Ancient Thunder

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On the Other Side of the Garden

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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Arrival

Cover: Two Green Birds. Geraldo Valério. Two green parakeets stand on a perch, facing each other with their beaks almost touching. They are behind thin wire cage bars. Green fabric runs along the left-hand side of the cover.

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Two Green Birds

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A Family Is a Family Is a Family

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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Louis Undercover

Cover: Strange Bewildering Time: Istanbl to Kathmandu in the Last Year of the Hippie Trail by Mark Abley. A vintage colour photograph of a red-orange 1960s bus on a deserted road. Beside the bus is one half of a road sign, with a dark-skinned man standing in front of it. In the background are rolling green hills and a white-tipped mountain, with a blue-green sky above.

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Strange Bewildering Time

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Almost Invisible

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Mandaderos de la lluvia / Messengers of Rain

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Sita's Ramayana

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Good Night, Commander

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The Butcher's Hook

A photograph shows soft waves on water. The sky overhead is blue with a few big clouds. Thin, yellow lines cover the image in a graphic pattern. In front of the pattern is a black and brown circle that resembles a burn mark in paper. It covers the center of the image. Text: Island. Patrick Downes.

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Island

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Sidewalk Flowers

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Parvana's Journey

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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The Joyful Living Colouring Book

Dark blue vines curl along the sides of a light blue background. At the bottom of the vines are two small circles made by the branches, each with a rose. In the left circle is a man’s face and in the right circle is a woman’s face. In between the two is a girl with earphones. All three people have light skin tone and black hair. At the top of the vines are pink roses. In between them is the silhouette of a woman on stage in front of many seats. Text: Operatic. Kyo Maclear. Byron Eggenschwiler.

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Operatic

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

Because I Already Loved You. Written by Andrée-Anne Cyr and illustrated by Bérengère Delaporte. A child clutching a small stuffed animal stands in the middle of the page. Behind him is a baby, drawn in whites and blues.

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Because I Already Loved You

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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Eleven Canadian Novelists Interviewed by Graeme Gibson

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As Long as the Rivers Flow

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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The Funeral

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

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Carnival

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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Africville

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When I Listen to Silence

Cover: A girl with green skin tone looks at a yellow envelope that she holds in her hands. The letters “R.S.V.P.” are written on the envelope’s flap. The girl has leafy hair and skirts that trail off the edge of the image. Text: The Invitation. Stacey May Fowles and Marie Lafrance.

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The Invitation

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Pigeon

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As Glenn as Can Be