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YA Halloween Costume: Chicken Girl

Dress up like your favorite YA book covers this Halloween! Today’s outfit is inspired by the bold, feather-filled cover of Chicken Girl We’ve done the work and searched for all the pieces for you!


Boa: cynthiasmerchant | Dress: BobcatVintage | Shoes: Converse

Chicken Girl
By Heather Smith
ISBN 9780143198680 | Penguin Teen Canada
240 Pages | Ages 12+ | Hardcover

Everybody has a story that will break your heart; a poignant coming-of-age YA for fans of David Arnold, from the author of the acclaimed The Agony of Bun O’Keefe, a Kirkus Best of the Year selection.

Poppy used to be an optimist. But after a photo of her dressed as Rosie the Riveter is mocked online, she’s having trouble seeing the good in the world. As a result, Poppy trades her beloved vintage clothes for a feathered chicken costume and accepts a job as an anonymous sign waver outside a restaurant. There, Poppy meets six-year-old girl Miracle, who helps Poppy see beyond her own pain, opening her eyes to the people around her: Cam, her twin brother, who is adjusting to life as an openly gay teen; Buck, a charming photographer with a cute British accent and a not-so-cute mean-streak; and Lewis a teen caring for an ailing parent, while struggling to reach the final stages of his gender transition. As the summer unfolds, Poppy stops glorifying the past and starts focusing on the present. But just as she comes to terms with the fact that there is good and bad in everyone, she is tested by a deep betrayal.

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KidLit Halloween Costume: Frankie’s Favorite Food

Dress up like your favorite KidLit characters this Halloween! Today’s outfits are inspired by the cast in Frankie’s Favourite Food. We’ve searched high and low for these costume tutorials for you and your little ones!

Frankies Favorite Food-interior spread

Mushroom costume: Ira Loves Mae | Pineapple costume: Studio DIY | Popcorn costume: Make It & Love It | Sushi costume: Northstory | Ramen costume: Aww Sam | Grape costume: Miss Kay DIY | Pie costume: Ramblings from Utopia | Pasta costume: Studio DIY | Pretzel costume: Oh Happy Day | Macaron costume: Studio DIY

Frankies Favorite FoodFrankie’s Favorite Food
By Kelsey Garrity-Riley
ISBN 9780735264311 | Tundra Books
36 Pages | Ages 3-7 | Hardcover

Frankie has a problem: he has too many favorite foods. He can’t bring himself to choose just one to be for the school play, so on the day of the performance, he’s still without a costume. His teacher comes up with a delicious idea: what if Frankie becomes the Costume Manager? That way, he can parlay his love of all things culinary into the whole production. From adding some last-minute garnishes to helping the rice and beans into their costumes, Frankie shines backstage until he has a brilliant idea and decides to make his debut on the menu as something that combines his love for all his favorite foods . . .

In this funny and scrumptiously adorable story, readers will delight in the variety of foods represented and the clever performances full of silly word play and sweet camaraderie. In Kelsey Garrity-Riley’s author-illustrator debut, she shows the joy of food and revels in celebrating the way food can bring people together and inspire creativity.

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2019 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic

The Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic has celebrated the best in Canadian fantasy since 2001 and takes its name from the debut novel of Phyllis Gotlieb, one of the first authors to publish contemporary Canadian speculative fiction. We would like to congratulate Rachel Hartman whose novel Tess of the Road won this year’s Young Adult Fiction award.

Tess of the Road
By Rachel Hartman
544 Pages | Ages 12+ | Penguin Teen Canada
ISBN 9780385685887

From the Sunburst Awards jury:

Rachel Hartman’s Tess of the Road is a tour de force, a novel that dives headfirst into its heroine’s complex, messy, morally multifaceted world while never losing sight of the story at its heart. Hartman’s Tess is on a journey whose point is less self-discovery than it is a simple acceptance of self-worth. Her credo, “Walk on,” comes to encompass not just her physical journey but her struggle to accept that she matters and that it is possible for others to find worth in her. Tess’s progress takes place in a richly imagined fantastic landscape where even the deeply alien quigutl are so deftly painted that the unfamiliar becomes known and comforting. The reader is able to journey with Tess into an understanding that the seemingly strictest and most unshakeable beliefs can be based on lack of knowledge or unwillingness to embrace change.

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KidLit Halloween Costume: Miss Mink

Dress up like your favorite KidLit characters this Halloween! Today’s outfit is inspired by the glamorous Miss Mink. We’ve done the work and searched for all the pieces for you!

Miss Mink-interior spread
Miss Mink-completed look

Headband: For My Love of Children | Dress: eShakti | Shoes: BangiShop

miss minkMiss Mink: Life Lessons for a Cat Countess
By Janet Hill
ISBN 9781770499225 | Tundra Books
48 Pages | Ages 4-8 | Hardcover

This whimsical collection of twenty cat-approved life lessons for living your purrfect life is accompanied by gorgeous, lushly detailed paintings.

Miss Marcella Mink and sixty-seven of her favorite feline friends live happily in her big house by the sea. But there was a time when Miss Mink was not so happy. When Miss Mink created her own business — a feline-friendly cruise company for cat lovers and their furry companions — she found she no longer had time or energy for herself or her friends. For advice she turned to her cats, who always seemed so happy, healthy, well-rounded, well-groomed and well-rested. It was not long before the Cat Countess was feeling shipshape again. Collected here are Miss Mink’s twenty cat-approved lessons, from the benefits of a good grooming and an afternoon nap to valuable advice on friendship and diet.

Tundra Book Group