Here are the Best Children’s Books of the year as chosen by our team of reviewers and editorial staff, selected from our reviews posted in 2022. The six titles are in no particular order, and each link will take you to the review here at TMR.
Our Best Fiction titles will be appearing soon! Our Best Poetry of 2022 choices can be found here, and Non-Fiction is here.
- Canada Wild: Animals Found Nowhere Else on Earth by Maria Birmingham, Art by Alex MacAskill (Nimbus)
- Catalina – Lori Doody (Running the Goat Books)
- Molly, The Imperfectly Perfect Dog – Jennifer McMullin (Pockets of Love Publishing)
- I’m Not Sydney – Marie-Louise Gay (Groundwood Books)
- The Lonely Little Lighthouse by Lana Shupe (Nimbus)
- Groundhog Night: Shubenacadie Sam’s Shadow by Doretta Groenendyk (MacIntyre Purcell)
James M. Fisher is the owner and editor-in-chief of The Miramichi Reader. He began TMR in 2015, realizing that there was a genuine need for more book reviews of Canadian literature. It has since become Canada’s best-regarded source for the finest in new literary releases. James has been interviewed about TMR on CBC Radio and other media sites. James works as a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Technologist and lives in Miramichi, New Brunswick with his wife Diane and their tabby cat Eddie.