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30 books your family can read together

Celebrate Family Literacy Day by reading one of these great Canadian books with the little one(s) in your life.

Erin Balser · CBC · Posted: Jun 13, 2017 10:35 AM EDT | Last Updated: June 13, 2017

A family that reads together stays together, we say. Why not start with one of these great books?

Eye of the Crow won the Arthur Ellis Award for Juvenile Crime Fiction. (Penguin Canada/Tundra Books/Penguin Canada)

Run by Eric Walters
Eye of the Crow by Shane Peacock
The Dream Carvers by Joan Clark

Barbara Smucker won the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People in 1988. (Tundra Book/Penguin Canada/Scholastic)

Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang by Mordecai Richler, illustrated by Dušan Petričić
Underground to Canada by Barbara Smucker
This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall by Gordon Korman

Virginia Wolf won the Governor General's Literary Award for Young People's Literature (illustrated) in 2012. (Inhabit Media/Kids Can Press/Pan Macmillan)

Skraelings by Rachel and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley
Virginia Wolf by Kyo Maclear, illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

In 1986, Joy Kogawa was made a Member of the Order of Canada. (Owlkids Books/Fitzhenry & Whiteside/Kids Can Press)

You Are Stardust by Elin Kelsey, illustrated by Soyeon Kim
Naomi's Tree by Joy Kogawa, illustrated by Ruth Ohi
Earth Magic by Dionne Brand, illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes

Plain Kate won the 2011 TD Canadian Children's Literature Award. (Scholastic/HarperCollins )

Plain Kate by Erin Bow
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Hunchback Assignments by Arthur Slade

Airborn won the 2004 Governor General's Literary Award for Young People's Literature. (Penguin Canada/HarperCollins/Penguin Canada)

Awake and Dreaming by Kit Pearson
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
Mama's Going to Buy you a Mockingbird by Jean Little

Hana's Suitcase was named the Canadian Library Association's Book of the Year for Children in 2003. (Kids Can Press/Second Story Press)

Small Saul by Ashley Spires
Hana's Suitcase by Karen Levine

Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin was shortlisted for the 2014 Governor General's Literary Award for Young People's Literature (illustrated). (HarperCollins/Kids Can Press)

Alligator Pie by Dennis Lee, illustrated by Sandy Nichols
Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin by Chieri Uegaki, illustrated by Qin Leng

Shin-chi's Canoe won the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award in 2009. (Groundwood Books/Kids Can Press)

Shin-chi's Canoe by Nicola I. Campbell, illustrated by Kim LaFave
Scaredy Squirrel by Mélanie Watt

Fox and Squirrel was shortlisted for the 2014 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award. (Scholastic)

Fox and Squirrel by Ruth Ohi
Grumpy Bird by Jeremy Tankard

Robert Munsch says Mortimer was the first story he ever made up. He came up with the idea in 1971 when he was working as a student teacher. (Annick Press/Kids Can Press)

Mortimer by Robert Munsch, illustrated by Michael Martchenko
The Legend of Ninja Cowboy Bear by David Bruins, illustrated by Hilary Leung

The Man with the Violin won the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award in 2014. (Annick Press/Scholastic)

The Man with the Violin by Kathy Stinson, illustrated by Dušan Petričić
The Subway Mouse by Barbara Reid

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