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Notes from a Children's Librarian
Carefully selected books according to curriculum and theme.
Notes From a Children's Librarian: Inspiring Junior Fiction
THE CHAT
Great writers sit down with us to talk about their books—and the stories behind them.
The Chat with Christine Higdon
The Latest Interviews, Recommendations, and More
BC in Eight Books and Seven Genres
A recommended reading list by the author of the new book The Other Valley.
Experimental (and Exploratory) Storytelling
A recommended reading list by the author of the new book Last Woman.
- Why LGBTQ+ books belong in the classroom and in school libraries
- Phantom Texts
- Investigating Motherhood
- The Chat with Christine Higdon
- The Chat with Roger Mooking & francesca ekwuyasi
- Coming Out
- Notes From a Children's Librarian: Inspiring Junior Fiction
- My Interests Are Matter
- Great Books to Get You Through Dark Times
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New Non-Fiction for the Week of March 25th
Motherlike
Black Boys Like Me
Confrontations with Race, Identity, and Belonging
Dispersals
On Plants, Borders, and Belonging
The Death of Tony
On Belonging in Two Worlds
Water Confidential
Witnessing Justice Denied—The Fight for Safe Drinking Water in Indigenous and Rural Communities in Canada
On Comics and Grief
Isúh Áníi / As Grandmother Said
Dátl'ìshí Ts'ìká áa Guunijà / The Narratives of Bessie Meguinis
Never Better
Two Kids, Their Dad, and His Wife's Ghost
Born to Walk
The Transformative Power of a Pedestrian Act
Straggle
Adventures in Walking While Female
Walking
Nevertheless
Walking Poems
Stroll, updated edition
On Foot to Canterbury
A Son’s Pilgrimage
Treed
Walking in Canada's Urban Forests
The Road Is How
Three Days Afoot Through Nature, Eros, And Soul, The
Knit a Box of Socks
24 sock knitting patterns for your dream box of socks
Birchbark Canoe
Living Among the Algonquin
Visible Mending
Repair, Renew, Reuse The Clothes You Love
Sharp Notions
Essays from the Stitching Life
The Art of Mi'kmaw Basketry
Little Trouts
A Newfoundland and Labrador Knitting Collection for Children
Arctic Knits
Jumpers, Socks, Mittens and More
Fleece and Fibre
Textile Producers of Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands