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September marks the 10th anniversary of A Family Is a Family Is a Family, a bestselling picture book that has been widely celebrated and banned in some classrooms for its depiction of diverse families. Check out our interview with author Sara O’Leary and illustrator Qin Leng about censorship, creating inclusive kidlit, and the book’s legacy.

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Cover: Leila and Khaled, A Novel by Nyla Matuk. A black line drawing of a couple in a passionate kissing embrace on a rich red background.

Leila and Khaled

Two Palestinians search for a language of love amid the ruins of dispossession.

The Longest Death

The Longest Death

Two lovers plot a daring heist in this atmospheric noir about fate and fortune on the fringes of the American dream.

Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2026

Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2026

The prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best poetry published in English from the shortlist of the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Murder in Paris '68

Murder in Paris '68

A captivating true crime story about an unsolved murder in 1960s Paris that scandalized a nation.

Cover: The Body Riddle: A Novel by Sam K MacKinnon, featuring two crossed arms embracing large green leaves and pink ferns against a deep brown background, with the title text overlaid in bold white letters.

The Body Riddle

What if the body you fought for no longer fits the life you built before it?

Layaway Child

Layaway Child

Magnificent stories about Caribbean immigrants navigating the emotional terrain of girlhood, displacement, longing, and identity across continents.

The Book of Birds

The Book of Birds

From the creators of the internationally bestselling, award-winning, multi-adapted phenomenon The Lost Words: a dazzling celebration of birdlife, re-imagining the classic field guide for a new generation of nature lovers

Cover: The Two Roberts, by Damian Barr. A black-and-white upper-body photo of two men, both with light skin tone. One man lies sideways, his head on his arm and his hand draped over his head; the second man sits more upright behind the first, only the lower half of his face visible, both smile slightly.The image is partially obscured by diagonal semi-opaque coloured stripes at the top of the frame and the title, and similar stripes at the bottom of the frame and the author's name.

The Two Roberts

An intoxicating, brave, and compassionate novel that reimagines one of the most passionate love stories of modern British art.

Cover: Interregnum: Inside the Gruelling and Glamorous Two-Year Battle to become the Next King of Chess by Jordan Himelfarb. Chess pieces on a green checkered board against a light background and two illustrated hands reaching toward the pieces. The title is set in the top third of the cover and the author’s name at the bottom.

Interregnum

A riveting chronicle of the battle for chess supremacy and the brilliant, eccentric, extremely online grandmasters changing an ancient game.

Cover: Temporary Palaces, a novel, by Jeff Miller. Photograph of an abandoned two-storey house sitting on a vacant lot. The ground floor windows are covered by boards, which have been spraypainted with graffiti, while the upper floor windows have been smashed out. The title and author’s name appear in large, black letters inside a white frame around the photograph. The words “A Novel” appear beside the title in large, pink letters.

Temporary Palaces

For readers of Jennifer Egan and Heather O’Neill comes a blazing debut novel set in the DIY music and arts scene of the early 2000s

Cover: The Wren by A. F. Moritz. An illustration of a wren perches on a branch, leaning forward and looking upward, over a beige background. The text appears in a serif font, with the title in a medium brown and the author's name in black.

The Wren

In The Wren, A.F. Moritz arranges 70 short poems in a sort of galaxy: an apparent scatter, not of stars but of poems, of feeling-thoughts.

Cover: Ultra Blue by Graeme Bezanson. The text appears in thick yellow brush strokes over a red background, with

Ultra Blue

Ultra Blue is a sequence of poems about the emotional lives of boys and the challenges of growing up within contemporary masculinity.

Cover: Pitiful by Brandi Bird. The text is white over a back backgound, with

Pitiful

Part self-interrogation, part hospital diary, these heartbreakingly frank poems detail the author’s struggles with eating disorders and depression.

Cover: Inheritance, a novel, by Jane Park. A silver eunjangdo (Korean ornamental knife in a sheath) with a blue tassel and a yellow crysanthemum over a background illustration of a prairie grassland. The title Inheritance is set in the top third of the cover and the author's name at the bottom.

Inheritance

A Korean Canadian woman returns to the prairies, where she revisits her childhood and confronts a haunting guilt.

Cover: Definitely Thriving, a novel, by Kerry Clare. An illustration of an upside-down green clawfoot bathtub full of bubbles is at the top of the frame, with a multicoloured stack of books at each end of the tub. A woman with light skin tone and dark hair in a messy top-knot reclines in the tub, reading. The title and author’s name are in dark blue brushstroke font set slanted on a yellow background with a few scattered open books and bubbles falling to the bottom of the frame.

Definitely Thriving

The heartening and hilarious story of a woman who doesn’t have it all figured out just yet.

Together by the Sea

Together by the Sea

In the tenth and final instalment of the legendary Soifs cycle, Marie-Claire Blais invites all the agonies and joys of humanity to a party by the sea.

A collection of various House of Anansi Press books by Indigenous authors arranged on a concrete background.

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Chyana Marie Sage, katherena vermette, Tanya Talaga, and more.

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New Releases

Makade Asin / Black Stone

Makade Asin / Black Stone

Inspired by an Ojibwe story, Black Stone is an English/Anishinaabemowin picture book that encourages young readers to find their own inner strength.  

Fake Gnus

Fake Gnus

Kid reporter Scoop Jackson asks readers to consider what is fake news and what is fact, while looking for the gnus that have escaped from their pen at the zoo.

Whenever You Are, by Martine Leavitt, Governor General’s Award Winner and National Book Award Finalist. A young man’s silhouette, visible from the shoulders up, is set against an ombre purple background. Two barred windows are shown against his face where his eyes might be. In one of the windows, the full body of another young man is shown in silhouette.

Whenever You Are

What if changing the biggest mistake of your life would be the biggest mistake of your life?

Go, stories by Deborah Ellis. The background is pale green. Clockwise from the top are six illustrations: A purple basket of various home items, two floor cushions around a wood Go game board covered in black and white pieces; an upside-down dog bowl surrounded by dog kibble and broken glass; an orange shirt, white towel, bar of soap and a toothbrush; a shovel in front of a gravestone; a white chair and a pink purse by a potted tree; and a pair of shoes, red cup and a race bib with the number forty-four.

Go

From Deborah Ellis, the bestselling author of Sit and Step, comes a new short story collection about realizing when it’s time to pick up … and Go.

The Burrowing Owls of the Prairie Grasslands

The Burrowing Owls of the Prairie Grasslands

It’s spring in Grasslands National Park and burrowing owls are returning from a winter away to lay their eggs in this rare and protected habitat.

Boozhoo! Hello! By Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley. Translated by Mary Ann Corbiere. A wolf is drawn in a Woodland art style, made out of simple organic shapes with smoothed, rounded lines. The wolf walks across the page while looking up at the title. It has a black head, and its body is made up of several different shapes with varying designs in blue, orange, red and green. The background is orange.

Boozhoo! / Hello!

This cheerful board book introduces the youngest of readers to woodland and water animals in English and Anishinaabemowin.

Monster Mender. Written by Christine Baldacchino and illustrated by Ilona Iske. A woman reaches up to gently hold the snout of a large green sea serpent. The woman has long grey hair with bangs, blue eyes and light skin tone. She wears a green dress underneath a burgundy smock, with burgundy tights and black shoes. The sea serpent’s long tail is wrapped in a circle, framing the title.

Monster Mender

A monster mender works hard to heal all wounds, but struggles to help a sea serpent who just seems … sad.

Stella and Sam ABC

Stella and Sam ABC

Join Stella and Sam in this new board book as they journey through the alphabet and into the hearts of a new generation.

Me enoja / Angry Me

Me enoja / Angry Me

The Spanish-language edition of bestselling Angry Me, in which a child tells us what makes her angry and how she tries to let the anger come and go.

A Friend Is a Friend Is a Friend. Written by Sara O’Leary and illustrated by Qin Leng. A group of fifteen children of various skin tones perch and swing playfully from the branches of a tree.

A Friend Is a Friend Is a Friend

In this companion to best-selling titles A Family Is a Family Is a Family and A Kid Is a Kid Is a Kid, a child explores how to make a friend.

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