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An educational book that teaches while entertaining children about words for nature and animals in Ojibwe language in a rhyming scheme narrative. Full of cheerful and friendly depictions of animals. Features a very helpful pronunciation guide and…

A short recollection of how Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s grandparents met during their time in a Japanese internment camp. A story about love as persistence and resistance in times of hardship.

Canadian illustrator Isabelle Malenfant has illustrated a number of children's books. In 2014, she was a nominated finalist for the Governor General's Award for French-language children's illustration. Originally from Val d'Or in northern Québec,…

Baldacchino, who lives in Toronto, has a background in early childhood education. Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress is her first book; it is based on a situation she encountered in one of the schools where she was teaching. The book was a…

An engaging story about a dreamy, imaginative little boy who uses his artistic talents to help his classmates understand why he loves the tangerine dress in the dress-up centre. Morris gives readers insight into the courage and vulnerability at play…

She is an American writer who focuses on Young Adult novels set in the United States, specifically Oklahoma. She is often given credit for introducing the YA genre. She went by S. E. Hinton in her work as she did not want her male readers to dismiss…

Set in the 1960s, this coming-of-age novel follows two male best friends, Mark Jennings and Bryon Douglas, as they evolve and drift apart.

Tempted is the sixth novel in the House of Night Seriesof young adult novels about teens who are marked to become "vampyres." In this novel in the series, Zoe Redbird, who has both Cherokee and white heritage, strives to understand her connection…

For the purposes of this project, this regularly-updated guide is comprised of comprehensive sections on how to create Omeka items using well-defined Dublin Core and Item Type Metadata elements, including map, tags and item relations, and on how to…

Children’s books author and illustrator Grace Lin explores the concept of windows and mirrors in children's literature.

Pie chart reflecting the percentage of genres in the YA section of Perfect Books.

Pie chart reflecting the percentages of LGBTQ+ representation in the YA section of Perfect Books.

Pie chart reflecting the percentage of male vs female primary characters in the YA section of Perfect Books.

Pie chart reflecting the percentage of the races and ethnicities of characters in the YA section of Perfect Books.

Activist and native scholar Debbie Reese talks about Mirrors, Windows, Sliding Glass Doors and a fourth layer, Curtains, within the context of Native American representation in literature.

This data is based on a random selection of 13 books chosen from the "Youth-Late" display at Books on Beechwood on January 21st, 2022.

The pie chart reflects the percentage of both primary and secondary characters. Charts provide information about the different genders, sexualities, races, and ethnicity of characters.

Primary Characters:
Male Characters: 7
Female Characters:…

Pie Chart reflects the percentage of different races/ethnicity, gender, and sexuality of the authors and illustrators. There is also a chart that includes the percentage of different genres of books.

Gender:
Male Authors: 1
Male Illustrators:…

Pie chart reflecting the percentage of male vs female authors in the YA section of Perfect books.

Pie charts and a bar graph representing the distribution of gender representation within a sample of picturebooks at Perfect Books.

Pie charts and a bar graph representing the distribution of race/ethnicity representation within a sample of picturebooks at Perfect Books.