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Grumpy Bird (By Jeremy Tankard. Scholastic, 28 pp, $15.99)

Mechanimals (By Chris Tougas. Orca Books, 27 pp, $19.95)

Princess Pigsty (By Cornelia Funke, with illustrations by Kerstin Meyer. Translated by Chantal Wright. Scholastic, 24 pp, $20.99)

A Dog Needs a Bone! (By Audrey Wood. Blue Sky Press, 27 pp, $20.99)

The Magic Beads (By Susin Nielsen-Fernlund, with illustrations by Geneviève Côté, Simply Read Books, 29 pp, $19.95)

Ryan Heshka’s ABC Spook Show (By Ryan Heshka. Simply Read Books, 52 pp, $14.95)

Looking for Loons (By Jennifer Lloyd, with illustrations by Kirsti Anne Wakelin. Simply Read Books, 29 pp, $19.95)

The Witch’s Child (By Arthur Yorinks, with illustrations by Jos A. Smith. Abrams, 30 pp, $20.95)

The Discovery of Dragons: New Research Revealed (By Graeme Base. Abrams, 41 pp, $23.95)

Very Serious Children (By Caroline Adderson, with illustrations by Joe Weissmann. Scholastic Canada, 146 pp, $9.99)

The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (By Peter Sís. Farrar Straus Giroux, 48 pp, $22.95)

Honey Cake (By Joan Betty Stuchner, with illustrations by Cynthia Nugent. Tradewind Publishers, 95 pp, $16.95)

King of the Lost and Found (By John Lekich. Raincoast Books, 308 pp, $11.95)

The Feathered Cloak (By Sean Dixon. Key Porter Books, 196 pp, $16.95)

A Perfect Gentle Knight (By Kit Pearson. Puffin Canada, 205 pp, $20)

Darkwing (By Kenneth Oppel. HarperCollins, 330 pp, $21.99)

Photo courtesy Kirsti at CWILL.