Featured Books By Month & Year

A perfect snow has fallen, and first-grader Scott and fourth-grader Jim have been daydreaming the morning away, making plans, doodling sketches of snowmen and snow forts, all in anticipation of recess and the endless possibilities of this perfect snow. Barbara Reid uses her signature Plasticine style and blends it for the first time with ink wash panels to create a unique mixed media masterpiece. Drawing inspiration from the schoolyard of her own Toronto childhood and the ones she visits today, she manages to create authentic images to which readers of all ages will relate. Perfect Snow is a timeless Canadian tale that will beautifully enhance any snowy day!

"Br-r-r-r-r-r-rrrrrrrrrr! said the squirrel. My toes are cold as ice! This mitten looks so cozy, and warm toes would feel so nice!" When a little boy loses a mitten in the snow,a passing squirrel finds it’s the perfect place to warm his icy toes. So he sque-e-e-e-zes inside. But he's not the only one with that idea. How many animals can fit inside a little boy's mitten? Aylesworth’s rollicking rhyming refrains and McClintock’s delightfully animated characters are sure to make this book a storytime favourite.

Big Bear is preparing to hibernate but continually gets sidetracked by what he thinks are orders from Old Man Winter. Hilarious misunderstandings are finally resolved.

From the acclaimed author of "My Name Is Red" comes a spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings–for love, art, power, and God–set in a remote Turkish town, where stirrings of political Islamism threaten to unravel the secular order.