Canadian Children's Book Week 2025

Canadian Children's Book Week is taking place April 27 - May 3, 2025! Canadian Children’s Book Week connects Canadian creators with children and teens across Canada. Check out these titles by the 2025 touring authors and then head to bookcentre.ca/book-week to learn more.

Updated April 14, 2025
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Abuelita and me
Carranza, Leonarda
Paper Book
In this poignant, empowering picture book debut, a girl and her beloved abuelita lean on each other as they contend with racism while running errands in the city. Spending time at home with Abuelita means pancakes, puddle-jumping, and nail-painting. But venturing out into the city is not...
The city of lost cats
Kyi, Tanya Lloyd
Paper Book
A stubborn young girl named Fiona stumbles upon an abandoned house full of stray cats, just as it is threatened by a demolition team, a leadership crisis, and two potentially malicious parakeets. Can Fiona save the house and all its inhabitants? A new middle-grade novel by critically acclaimed...
Métis like me
Hilderman, Tasha
Paper Book
A CBC and Globe and Mail Bestseller! Whether or not you're Métis, there's so much to experience and learn about this amazing Indigenous culture -- take a picture book journey into Métis crafts, music and cooking with friends who love to share. Are you...
Indiginerds : tales from modern indigenous life
Pete, Alina
Paper Book
YALSA's 2025 Great Graphic Novels for Teens "This colorful, inviting graphic memoir anthology shatters narrow ideas about what a nerd (or a Native person) looks like." -- KIRKUS First Nations culture is...
Wicked darlings
Taylor, Jordyn
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the author of The Revenge Game comes a twisty YA thriller about the underbelly of Manhattan's high society, where nothing is off-limits--not even murder. Aspiring journalist Noa has a secret she's been keeping. Ever since her sister's tragic...

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