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Notes from a Children's Librarian
Carefully selected books according to curriculum and theme.
Notes from a Children's Librarian: Indigenous Peoples and this Land
THE CHAT
Great writers sit down with us to talk about their books—and the stories behind them.
The Chat with Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
INSPIRATION ZONE
Check out the books that inspire other books.
To Tenderly Toe the Line Between the Grime and the Beauty
The Latest Interviews, Recommendations, and More
Sticky: Books That Linger
A recommended reading list by the author of Zulaikha.
Five Asian-Canadian Authors You Need to Read Now
A recommended reading list by the author of Reuniting with Strangers.
- BC in Eight Books and Seven Genres
- My Interests Are Matter
- Great Books to Get You Through Dark Times
- Making the Familiar Strange
- Most Anticipated: Our 2024 Spring Poetry Preview
- Experimental (and Exploratory) Storytelling
- Support Social-Emotional Learning In Your Classroom
- On Our Radar: Books With Buzz
- Essential Canadiana
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Dispersals
On Plants, Borders, and Belonging
Sex in Canada
The Who, Why, When, and How of Getting Down Up North
The Roosting Box
Rebuilding the Body after the First World War
How to Abolish Prisons
Lessons from the Movement against Imprisonment
Big Mall
Shopping for Meaning
Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine
Suing for Silence
Sexual Violence and Defamation Law
Dreams
Brief Books about Big Ideas
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