Teaching Tough Topics
A comprehensive guide to choosing and using the best children’s books to address sensitive but significant topics in the classroom.
Gâteau aux pommes
Dans cette douce histoire en rimes, un enfant exprime sa gratitude envers la nature en récoltant ses trésors – noisettes, pommes, œufs et lait – pour préparer un délicieux gâteau aux pommes.
Confronting Devastation
An anthology of excerpts from twenty memoirs who survived the Holocaust in Hungary.
Inside Broadside
Inside Broadside looks at the impact 1980s feminist newspaper Broadside: A Feminist Review had on the lives of both the women who participated in its creation and the women who read one or all of its 96 issues.
The Oracle of Cumae
Mariuccia Umbellino must rescue an ancient oracle that is set to be destroyed on orders from the Pope. In the ensuing adventure things are blown up, love spells are miscast, a housekeeper poisons her cruel mistress, a mummy is discovered, and the mysterious fate of a jettatore—a person born with the Evil Eye—is revealed.
Backwards Day
A playful picture book set on a far-away planet Tenalp, where once a year everything is backwards! Except on that day, Andrea stays a girl…What happened?
Bridge of Flowers
The bridge of flowers connecting their parents’ two homes falls apart one stressful day—Mona and Kumar make their own magic to restore it!
Casey's Ball
Casey is finally on the boys’ soccer team—the Great Green Lizards! He loves soccer so much, but he’s got a few things he needs to learn.
Colors of Aloha
An indigenous Hawai’ian colour adventure, featuring older brother Kalani teaching a gaggle of keiki their colours on a Saturday fishing trip.
It's A Wild World
Take a trip to the zoo with Derrick, Izzy, and Abby, as they introduce us to all the different ways animals do love and gender!
Power Poems for Small Humans
Illustrated, inspiring poems for parents and young ones alike! Carefully and lovingly crafted by a diverse selection of writers and artists, there’s validation and affirmation to be found in each and every poetic pronunciation.
Super Power Baby Shower!
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What happens when a Super Family prepares for a Super Powered Baby Shower? Of course there’s going to be a distress call in the middle of the festivities!
The Adventures of Tulip, Birthday Wish Fairy
Daniela’s sad on her birthday, wishing the world could see her as the girl she knows herself to be inside. When Tulip the Birthday Wish Fairy reads her wish, he learns something new, breaks a few rules, and helps Daniela with her wish.
The Great Space Adventure
A nonbinary kid on a lyrical space adventure gets to meet and make friends with all the planets in this scientifically factual, lavishly illustrated book.
Meennunyakaa / Blueberry Patch
In this dual-language book, the story of how Indigenous people harvested berries and how that tradition continues to this day.
Sus Yoo / The Bear's Medicine
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In this dual-language book, a mother bear takes her cubs out on the land to teach them how to survive.
Always Remember Who You Are
A tragic, yet inspiring story of how a little girl loses everyone she knows and loves during WWII, but who remembers the last words her father ever said to her, which helps her build a new life in a new land.
Shantallow
A teenage boy meets a girl he has been seeing in his nightmares. As their stormy relationship becomes almost abusive, they find themselves confronting supernatural terrors in a house with an evil history.
Things That Fall
A group of cousins reunites at a family cottage to help one of them deal with his father's death. They soon stumble on the family secret that caused their parents to keep them apart for years.
Pickles vs. the Zombies
A house cat and her animal friends struggle to survive after the zombie apocalypse. Without humans to care for them or manage the world, they need to fight not only zombies, but also wild animals and, suddenly, wild former house pets.
Les chiffres de Maya
Sous le soleil, sur une île exotique, à travers le quotidien et entourée d’amour, Maya apprend à compter jusqu’à 10.
The Stone Rainbow
Seventeen-year-old Jack Pedersen is finding life complicated ever since coming out. Complications go into hyper-drive when a new student arrives at school, and Jack starts experiencing feelings that he’s never allowed himself before.
