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Here are the Canadian picture books, early chapter books and middle-grade titles we are excited about this season.

If you're looking for a queer, witchy adventure, author Jessi Zabarsky has you covered.

In Jo Rioux’s “The Golden Twine,” an orphan girl who lives among traveling merchants aspires to be a monster tamer.

Booklist Online Book Review: Top 10 Mysteries & Thrillers for Youth: 2022. <ParaStyle:By

Every year, we gather some of our favorite creators to take our ‘Creators’ Year in Review’ survey. When thinking about this year, however, the usual questions didn’t seem to make as much sense. So, we’ve tweaked the questions a bit to better reflect what 2020 was truly like for all of us. Profuse thank yous to the creators who took a few minutes to answer our questions. You’ll be seeing all five of their responses this week and next, as we continue our Holiday Season celebrations. ...

“The Artist as Poet: Selections from PAMM’s Collection” delves into the time period of the “Poème-Objet” (poem-object), a very particular moment in the 1930s and ’40s where Surrealist artists used found objects and mixed them with text. The exhibition opens March 25 at the Pérez Art Museum Miami.