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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

Cover: The One and Only Question. Written by Norma Charles and Andrea Charles. Illustrated by Ken Daley. Zeke, a young boy with medium-dark skin tone, an afro and teal shirt with a yellow crown on it, walks away from the yellow school bus in the background. Behind him, another young boy with medium skin tone, glasses, a green hoodie and yellow shoes steps down the stairs to exit the bus. Children of a variety of ethnicities can be seen in the windows of the bus.

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The One and Only Question

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

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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Taking Turns with Turtles

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Seamus’s Short Story

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

It is nighttime. A photograph shows blue light shining on a brick building with four rows of windows. A man with light skin tone who is as tall as the highest windows stands beside the building. He wears a vest over a button-up shirt and leans on the wall. His shadow on the building is stopped by one lit window on his shadowÕs chest. A spotlight shines on his face. He looks to the ground. Text: 887. Robert Lepage. Translated by Louisa Blair. ÒGlitteringÉ WonderousÉ Raw emotional force.ÓÑ New York Times.

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887

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The Sunshine Project

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

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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A Family Is a Family Is a Family

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

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

Grandma, Cho Cho and Me. By Morgan Christie and Paulica Santos. A young girl with dark skin tone and curly black hair in two buns wears a pink long-sleeve shirt with yellow dots under a blue apron. She looks up at her grandmother, who has her greying hair in a braided updo and wears a green collared long-sleeve shirt under a blue apron. Green chayote fruit and leaves fill the top of the page. The girl and her grandma have flowers in their hair and wrap hold several chayote fruit in their hands.

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Grandma, Cho Cho and Me

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

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

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The House Next Door

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As Glenn as Can Be

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Away

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

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

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Rooster / Gallo

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Two White Rabbits

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

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

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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The Hockey Sweater and Other Stories

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A Small Madness

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A Sweet Meeting on Mimouna Night

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The Red Sash

The Quiet Hunt: A Poem for Young Foragers. By Jean E. Pendziwol and Risa Hugo. A young girl lays on a hill with her head in her hands, her wicker basket next to her. She has medium-light skin tone, short brown hair, brown eyes and her nails painted red. She wears a white baseball t-shirt with red sleeves, red high-top sneakers and a pink baseball cap with a smiling sun. She gazes at a cluster of mushrooms with brown rounded tops and white stems.

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The Quiet Hunt

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Un saumon pour Simon

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

Cover: One Foot on the Platform: A Rock ’n’ Roll Journey—Writings on Music by Peter Goddard, edited by J.A. Wainwright. A blue cover with white and yellow type showing a greyscale photograph of a musician playing an acoustic guitar to a large audience at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival show, held at Varsity Stadium in Toronto, Canada, on September 13, 1969.

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One Foot on the Platform

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As Long as the Rivers Flow

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A Storytelling of Ravens

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The Bush Garden

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Not a Baby Anymore!

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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Angry Me

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If You Want to Visit a Sea Garden

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Manikanetish

A small yellow house is between two tall, forested mountains. A crooked ladder rises from the house into the sky and off the page. A person in a red jacket is most of the way up the ladder. The person’s shadow is large on the ground. Text: Climbing Shadows. Poems for Children. Shannon Bramer. Pictures by Cindy Derby.

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Climbing Shadows

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A Salmon for Simon

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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Africville

A drawing of a bird is in white against a green background. The bird has slender wings and stands in short grass. Text: The Caiplie Caves. Karen Solie.

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The Caiplie Caves

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

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Bitter and Sweet

A grey elephant stands against an orange background. The elephant has many small doodles and drawings of plants, shapes, and bugs on it. On the elephant’s head sits one child with medium dark skin tone and in front of the elephant stands another. Small plants are on the ground. Birds and butterflies are in the air. Text: Fern and Horn. Marie-Louise Gay.

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Fern and Horn

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

A blue balloon floats against a white background. Underneath the balloon, at the bottom of the cover, is a silver thumb tack. Text: Payback. Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth. Margaret Atwood. CBC Massey Lectures.

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Payback

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Step

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P'ésk'a and the First Salmon Ceremony

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Amos's Sweater

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Yellow Moon, Apple Moon

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Kamouraska

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Shi-shi-etko

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

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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A Pond, a Poet, and Three Pests

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Peach Pit

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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Any Questions?

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

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 Last Stampede

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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Bear’s Winter Party

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Music from the Sky

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The Breadwinner Trilogy

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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Sidewalk Flowers

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

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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Channel of Peace

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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Ancient Thunder

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

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!

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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Big Lonely Doug

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Salmon Creek

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Migrant

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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West Coast Wild Peek into the Rainforest

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Night Walk

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