Kids Can Press: 252 books

When a series of unlikely accidents destroys his library book, Jasper John Dooley knows he’s going to have to pay for the ruined book or they’ll never let him back in the library again. Desperate to get back there and have a much-coveted turn reading to Molly the dog, he devises a clever way to earn...

Every Sunday, Leo and his family gather at Nonna's house for lunch. Everyone is hungry for Nonna's delicious homemade pasta ...except Leo, who'd rather play. But when Nonna passes around the bowls of soup with stellini small, star-shaped noodles she also serves the start of a story. Leo eats his lunch...

Martin Bridge: On the Lookout! features three more illustrated stories about Martin’s well-laid plans unravelling, with funny and touching results.

The delightful follow-up to Kiss Me in New York.Serena Fuentes won’t waste one moment of her whirlwind trip to Paris. She has it all mapped out, right down to the photos she will take, and the last thing she wants is a change in plans. Yet suddenly she’s touring the city with Jean-Luc, a French...

Inspired by urban visionary Jane Jacobs, seven-year-old Lucia takes the reader through a day in her neighborhood and celebrates the people and places that make it feel like home. A great starting point for discussions on cities, this book will encourage readers to stop and smell the urban roses.

Fed up with her terrible triplet brothers, Loula decides it’s time her parents made her a sister. But they explain it isn’t that simple — it takes special “ingredients.” With Gilbert, the chauffeur, the plucky girl gathers everything she needs. Then she waits and waits, and nothing happens...

A sexual assault survivor seeks to find her truth, face her truth and speak her truth.Grace once spent the best summers of her life in New Harbor. Now that she’s returned, though, the place just reminds her of all she’s lost: her father, her best friend, her boyfriend and any memory of the night...

An endearing tale about a little boy who wants to be sure.“See you this afternoon,” says Daddy when he drops off Matthew at kindergarten. But Matthew says, “What if, this afternoon, the old green car doesn’t start?” Thus begins a series of what-ifs that Matthew poses to all of Daddy’s ideas...

An fresh look at the numbers one to ten, using familiar urban scenes captured by Zoran Milich’s expert camera lens.

Loula has had enough of her terrible triplet brothers and decides to run away to Africa. Luckily, her mother’s chauffeur, Gilbert, knows just how to get there. Together, Loula and Gilbert ride camels, cross a desert and, most important, use heaps of imagination in this heartwarming adventure.

A playful allegory about why misery exists in the world, and always will.They call her Old Misery, and for good reason, too. She’s got nothing to call her own except her cat and her apple tree, which would be something if it weren’t for all the stealing! Every day she hobbles up and down the hill...

Maia and Nico are the very best of friends, spending all of their time together. When Nico and his family move far away for a little while, Maia is left with a hole in her life that she thinks will never be filled. Eventually, though, she meets a furry companion, makes a new friend and even discovers...

Max is thrilled when his favorite writer, Rhonda Remington, calls up the detective agency. But Rhonda is less than thrilled: someone has warned her to beware on the night of a big storytelling competition. Max is on the case, but his unusual partner — the ghost of his great-uncle Larry — is his usual...

A little boy goes with his father to swing on his favorite swing. But a huuuuuge monster has just woken up from a long nap nearby, and it’s very hungry — for little children! As the monster creeps closer and tries to scare the boy with its fierce cry, “pruwwwahhahaha!” all the boy does is laugh...