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Mandaderos de la lluvia / Messengers of Rain

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

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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Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2026

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

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Stella and Sam ABC

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Harvey

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Taking Turns with Turtles

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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Somos como las nubes / We Are Like the Clouds

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Kisimi Taimaippaktut Angirrarijarani / Only in My Hometown

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That Night's Train

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

This image is a series of scenes. The scene above is a yellow photograph of a strip mall and a stoplight. Signs read, ÒDonuts, Muffins, CakesÓ and ÒGrocery StoreÓ. Two sections, one red and one yellow, with black polka dots, show the title. The scene below is a black and green image of the Toronto skyline on a red background. Text: Frying Plantain. Zalika Reid-Benta. Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist. ÒAn unforgettable debut.Ó Ð Paul Beaty, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sellout.

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Frying Plantain

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Louis Undercover

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Three Wishes

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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Almost Invisible

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

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Last Week

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

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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A Family Is a Family Is a Family

Cover: Ultra Blue by Graeme Bezanson. The text appears in thick yellow brush strokes over a red background, with "poems" appearing in white. In the center, a wolf springs forward, its head tilted toward the reader with a somewhat feral smile.

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Ultra Blue

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The Spotted Dog Last Seen

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Yellow Moon, Apple Moon

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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The Breadwinner: A Graphic Novel

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The 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology

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

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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Sit

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 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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Book Uncle and Me

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

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: The Tufted Puffins of Triangle Island. Written by Deborah Hodge. Pictures by Karen Reczuch. A close-up of a bird’s head fills the page. The bird has a black neck, white face, orange beak and long, yellow tufts flowing from above its eye to behind its head. Behind it are three more tufted puffins sitting on a grassy cliff with the ocean and clear blue sky behind them. The illustrations are done in watercolor and pencil.

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The Tufted Puffins of Triangle Island

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Dodge City

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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Caramba

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Drive

Cover: Eyes on the Ice. By Anna Rosner. Two boys depicted in red play hockey on an ice rink at night. They wear knit sweaters, caps and gloves. In the background there are buildings with lit-up windows and an illuminated street lamp. Rising above and behind the scene looms a man wearing a coat, hat and glasses that reflect the white snow.

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Eyes on the Ice

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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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Between Sisters

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

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: 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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Layaway Child

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

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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The Greats

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Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress

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These Festive Nights

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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When Apples Grew Noses and White Horses Flew

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As Long as the Rivers Flow

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

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

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: 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

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

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

Cover: Temporary Palaces, a novel, by Jeff Miller. Photograph of an abandoned two-storey house sitting on a vacant lot. The ground floor windows are covered by boards, which have been spraypainted with graffiti, while the upper floor windows have been smashed out. The title and author’s name appear in large, black letters inside a white frame around the photograph. The words “A Novel” appear beside the title in large, pink letters.

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Temporary Palaces

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Me enoja

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

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

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Two White Rabbits

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A Short History of Progress

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The Rayburn Affair

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The Stray and the Strangers

Cover: Go Home. By Terry Farish and Lochan Sharma. The cover is filled with a wash of red, white and blue, with patterns of stripes and stars. Under the colors, three faces fill the cover. One is a teenage girl with long hair and an intense expression, and the other two are teenage boys. One of the boys has a mullet hairstyle and an angry expression. The other has short hair, and gazes to the side. The characters are rendered in a black-and-white graphic style.

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Go Home

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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Together by the Sea

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West Coast Wild ABC

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The Burrowing Owls of the Prairie Grasslands

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!

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

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The Sunshine Project

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Angry Me

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

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No Ordinary Day

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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Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2025

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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The Composition

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They Say Blue

Cover: “Sunny Days Inside and Other Stories. Caroline Adderson.” The word “Inside” is highlighted in yellow. There is a beige brick wall and on the left is the end of an apartment balcony. A kid with black hair, brown eyes and medium-dark skin tone is wearing a yellow hoodie, black jogging shorts, white sports socks and blue and black running shoes. The kid leans against the balcony railing, arms crossed, looking pensive. To the right and above is a shadow of the bottom of a second balcony one floor up.

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Sunny Days Inside

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

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