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Here are the picture books, chapter books and middle-grade novels we are excited to read this spring!

Over the course of three instalments, Q&Q presents the young readers titles we’re most excited about this spring. This week’s instalment features picture books. Middle grade and graphic novels will be featured next week, with young adult and nonfiction to be featured on Feb. 14. Q&Q’s spring preview covers books published between Jan. 1 and

Inhabit Media, a Nunavut publishing house, has recently opened a book shop in Toronto that is quickly become a cultural hub for Inuit storytellers and artists

Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior Carole Lindstrom and Bridget George, ill. Roaring Brook/Macmillan, September New York Times–bestselling author Carole Lindstrom and illustrator Bridget George (It's a Mitig!) bring readers this inspiring picture book biography about Anishinaabe Indigenous rights activists Josephine Mandamin and her great-niece Autumn Peltier who have fought tirelessly to protect our water. Molly Misses

What’s in Flora’s Shoebox? Sarah Jane Conklin and Venus Angelica, ill. Monster House Publishing, Jan. Flora has seen the most extraordinary natural wonders travelling the world with her father. To remember each adventure, she stores keepsakes in a small red box, but they aren’t the souvenirs you would expect. Themes of sense of place and

Here are the Canadian middle-grade books and novels we are excited to read in the second half of 2022.

And gains Greystone Kids Inside in: X-Rays of Nature’s Hidden World by Jan Paul Schutten, illus. by Arie Van ‘t Riet, trans. by Laura Watkinson (Oct. 12, $19.95, ISBN 978-1-77164-679-6), provides a look at creatures and their natural habitats using x-ray techniques and photographs. Ages 2–7. How Beautiful by Antonella Capetti, illus. by Melissa Castrillon (Nov. 2, $17.95, ISBN 978-1-77164-853-0). A curious caterpillar searches for the true meaning of the word beautiful. Ages 4–8. Lit...