National Network for Equitable Library Service

How do you know someone loves you? dance, bake, frolic in the leaves and journey with one granddaughter as she discovers all the ways she can know her grandma's love.

Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a puppy? I can be fun and esciting and scary and lots of things, let me tell you my story.

This is a story for young children that describes the experience of Lucille, a girl from a big city, who visits her Métis cousin in the village of St. Laurent and goes ice fishing on Lake Manitoba.

Maxine aime se promener dans la forêt ancienne de Carmanah. Avec son père elle participe à la construction de sentier. Le coeur de Maxine se remplit de chagrin, lorsqu’elle constate la coupe à blanc dans Carmanah. Pourra-t-elle sauver la forêt ancienne? Un petit bijou d’album qui sensibilise l’enfant sur le rôle des arbres et du maintien de l’écosystème.

National Book Award?winning and New York Times bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi ( How to Be an Antiracist , Antiracist Baby ) returns with a new picture book, adapted for audio, that serves as a modern bedtime classic. As children all over the world get ready for bed, the moon watches over them. The moon knows that when we sleep, we dream. And when we dream, we imagine what is possible and what the world can be. ? With poetic prose , Goodnight Racism delivers important messages about antiracism, justice, and equality in an easy-to-listen format that empowers listeners both big and small.

Author-illustrator C.G. Esperanza delivers a celebratory ode to graffiti and the Boogie Down Bronx through an infectious read-aloud beat and colorful illustrations that leap right off the page! Perfect for fans of Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut and Keith Haring. The city is alive with vibrant art in every corner of the parks, the shops, the trains. But most people are too busy to see it--or worse, choose to ignore it!

Amy is determined to make a perfect dumpling like her parents and grandmother do, but hers are always too empty, too full, or not pinched together properly.

A magical children's picture book, written in Cree and English, depicting the transformation of a barren landscape into a rich natural world where an elderly couple can spend their remaining days. Rooted in the historical displacement and relocation of members of the Chemawawin First Nation from their ancestral homeland, The Move is a bilingual story of two Cree Elders adjusting to life in their new environment.

From the creator of the acclaimed and beloved Pokko and the Drum comes an emotionally resonant picture book about trust, worry, and loyalty between a father and daughter. Mina and her father live in a hollowed-out tree stump on the edge of a pond on the edge of a forest. Nothing ever bothers Mina, until one day, her father brings home a suspicious surprise from the woods. Should Mina trust her father—or listen to her own instincts?

You'll walk down the street / Your aunties sounding like clip-clopping horses / geta-geta-geta / in their wooden sandals / Until you arrive... / At the bath house / The big bath house. In this celebration of Japanese culture and family and naked bodies of all shapes and sizes, join a little girl—along with her aunties and grandmother—at a traditional bath house. Once there, the rituals leading up to the baths begin: hair washing, back scrubbing, and, finally, the wood barrel drumroll.