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Tokyo Digs a Garden

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

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Buddy and Earl Meet the Neighbors

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French Exit

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Northwest Passage

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Up in the Tree

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

Cover: Interregnum: Inside the Gruelling and Glamorous Two-Year Battle to become the Next King of Chess by Jordan Himelfarb. Chess pieces on a green checkered board against a light background and two illustrated hands reaching toward the pieces. The title is set in the top third of the cover and the author’s name at the bottom.

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Interregnum

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Ancient Thunder

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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Grandmother’s Visit

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Angry Me

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Somos como somos / A Kid Is a Kid Is a Kid

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Canadian Railroad Trilogy

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

A long bridge crosses over water toward a city skyline. Boats are on the water below it. A woman with light skin tone and dark hair stands in the foreground in an 19th century style dress. She has her hands on her hips. The sky is red. Text: How Emily Saved the Bridge. The Story of Emily Warren Roebling and the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge. Frieda Wishinsky. Natalie Nelson.

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How Emily Saved the Bridge

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West Coast Wild ABC

Cover: In a Land Without Dogs the Cats Learn to Bark by Jonathan Garfinkel. Black and white text of the title is set in a Soviet-era propaganda font. A small black illustration of a cat walking is in the middle-right of the page. The background is red.

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In a Land without Dogs the Cats Learn to Bark

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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Buddy and Earl Go Exploring

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Out of the Way! Out of the Way!

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

Safekeeping, a Writer's Guided Journal for Launching a Book with Love by Chelene Knight, foreword by Ivan Coyote. The title, subtitle, and author name appear in black type in a white box against an indigo background that is lightly textured to look like handmade paper.

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Safekeeping

Cover: Dogs and Us: A Fifteen-Thousand-Year Friendship. By Marta Pantaleo. Translated by Debbie Bibo and Yvette Ghione. Across a blue cover, people with varying skin tones and hair walk alongside different breeds of dogs in clothes suggesting they come from different eras in history.

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Dogs and Us

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A Storytelling of Ravens

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Yellow Moon, Apple Moon

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The Sunshine Project

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Layaway Child

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

Cover: Colors! !Colores! by Jorge Luján & Piet Grobler. The background is a rainbow of land.

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Colors! / Colores!

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

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 woman with light skin tone stands in a field of tall, dry grass. The sky is blue behind her. Her hands are bound in front of her with white fabric. She holds a piece of driftwood to cover her face. One eye is visible through a circular hole in the wood. Feathers stick out of a cracked section toward the top of the driftwood. Text: NDN Coping Mechanisms. Notes from the Field. Billy-Ray Belcourt. Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize.

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NDN Coping Mechanisms

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

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As Glenn as Can Be

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Away

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A Salmon for Simon

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Un saumon pour Simon

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Drive

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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Chin Chiang and the Dragon's Dance

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

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West Coast Wild Peek into the Rainforest

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Nocturne

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Don't

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

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

Cover: House of Anansi presents Xanax Cowboy, poems, written and directed by Hannah Green. The cover is yellow, monochrome. The title text is large and black, and the font appears as though stamped with ink.

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Xanax Cowboy

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They Say Blue

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A Sweet Meeting on Mimouna Night

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Shi-shi-etko

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Busy, Busy Birds

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The House Next Door

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A Pond, a Poet, and Three Pests

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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I Have the Right to Be a Child

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Bear’s Winter Party

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Manikanetish

Cover: Cats and Us. Written and illustrated by Marta Pantaleo. Translated by Debbie Bibo and Yvette Ghione. On a vibrant red background is a line of people of different ages and skin tones in clothes suggesting they come from different eras in history with different breeds of cats.

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Cats and Us

Alone. The Journeys of Three Young Refugees. By Paul Tom and Mélanie Baillairgé. A woman and girl embrace. The girl rests her head on the woman’s shoulders, and the woman wraps her hands around the girl’s body. The woman’s upper body appears to be fading, ghostlike, into the background. Both have dark skin tone and black hair. The woman wears a red dress with long sleeves, and white hoop earrings. The girl appears to be teen age and has a green shirt, black skirt and a black backpack.

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Alone

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Amos's Sweater

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

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: “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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Taking Turns with Turtles

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Out the Window

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

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Peach Pit

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!

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

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

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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No Pain Like This Body

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The Red Sash

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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Book Uncle and Me

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Africville

Cover: The Two Roberts, by Damian Barr. A black-and-white upper-body photo of two men, both with light skin tone. One man lies sideways, his head on his arm and his hand draped over his head; the second man sits more upright behind the first, only the lower half of his face visible, both smile slightly.The image is partially obscured by diagonal semi-opaque coloured stripes at the top of the frame and the title, and similar stripes at the bottom of the frame and the author's name.

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The Two Roberts

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As Long as the Rivers Flow

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

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When I Listen to Silence

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Sidewalk Flowers

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Rooster / Gallo

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Any Questions?

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Not a Baby Anymore!

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

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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Ticknor

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Sometimes I Feel Like a River