Owlkids

05/21/2026

Celebrate Asian Heritage Month! ❤️

May is Asian Heritage Month in Canada and Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month in the United States. We'd like to highlight some author and illustrators along with their books to celebrate the food, language, traditions, and diversity of Asian communities!

SAMINA GOES TO A WEDDING
A SALWAR KAMEEZ FOR AMBIKA
YOU CAN'T TAME A TIGER
THAO: A PICTURE BOOK
THE MANGO MONSTER
THE EIDI BAG
100 CHAPATIS
THE PAPER BOAT
HOW TO SPOT A SASQUATCH
THE BLUE BOWL
THE TRAY OF TOGETHERNESS
ALIYA'S SECRET: A STORY OF RAMADAN
CHAIWALA!

05/20/2026

read the full Winter 2026 Creator Corner interviews on owlkidsbooks.com! 📚

Are you interested in learning more about the creative process? Do you want to take a peek inside our authors' and illustrators' brains? Check out CREATOR CORNER, a seasonal blog by the Owlkids team where you can learn more about the way your favorite book came to be!

🔗 https://owlkidsbooks.com/category/news/

Learn about what inspired the authors, which art did the illustrators enjoy making and why, and of course, some very interesting fun facts about our creators 👀

05/19/2026

Tomorrow is 🐝 that there are around 20,000 discovered species of bees—and most are wild, solitary bees that don’t live in hives!

THE BUZZ ON WILD BEES: THE LITTLE-KNOWN POLLINATORS THAT KEEP OUR PLANET HUMMING is:

💛 The WINNER of the 2026 Green Earth Book Award - Children's Nonfiction (The Nature Generation)
💛 “Informative and engaging.” — ⭐ School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW
💛 "Bee-guiling and informative." —Kirkus Reviews
💛 Expert reviewed by Dr. Dirk Steinke, professor, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics at University of Guelph

05/18/2026

Take a look at these super cool MAN IN MOTION chocolate bars! 🍫

Created by Kasama Chocolate with the Rick Hansen Foundation and illustrator Emma Fitzgerald, this chocolate bar displays the cover of THE MAN IN MOTION. Check them out here:

🔗 https://ow.ly/kO9u50Z1gWz

*A portion of your purchase of this chocolate bar supports the Rick Hansen Foundation, a national charity advancing accessibility and disability equity 🩵

05/15/2026

THE WEEDFLOWER is a Forest of Reading Blue Spruce Honour Book! Congrats to these amazing books 👏👏👏

05/11/2026

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The CCBC isn't the only one turning 50 this year. We're in good company with our friends at Owlkids. Happy 50th, Owlkids!

05/10/2026

Happy 💐 Read these family-focused books to celebrate all the moms out there 💗

MUMMY & ME: A MONSTER'S TALE
LOVE YOU FROM HEAD TO TOE
RAVEN'S RIBBONS
ALL THE FACES OF ME
BEAUTIFUL YOU, BEAUTIFUL ME
I SANG YOU DOWN FROM THE STARS

05/08/2026

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05/08/2026

Thank you so much ❤ Make sure to read our 50th anniversary feature by Quill & Quire 👇

OWL – an acronym for outdoors and wildlife – was launched in 1976 and the inaugural issue included an article by Farley Mowat. Read our history of OWLkids here: https://bit.ly/4uT6bIf

05/08/2026

Good luck to the Toronto Tempo on opening night from Owlkids! Super excited to see you out there Toronto Tempo 🎉🏀