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1. Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois

   Amy Novesky & Isabelle Arsenault

   A loving illustrated homage to one of the most extraordinary and inspiring women in the history of creative culture

2. Once Upon a Northern Night

   Jean E. Pendziwol & Isabelle Arsenault

   Once Upon a Northern Night – impossibly wonderful illustrated love letter to winter’s whimsy:

3. Migrant

   Maxine Trottier & Isabelle Arsenault

   Beautiful and moving children’s book about the lives of migrant workers, a kind of Alice in Wonderland for the modern immigrant experience

4. Jane, the Fox, and Me

   Fanny Britt

   A wonderful graphic novel about acceptance, belonging, and the travails of youth, inspired by Charlotte Brönte’s Jane Eyre