Lest We Forget: Books for Remembrance Day
Every year on November 11, Canadians pause in a moment of silence to honour and remember those who have served, and continue to serve Canada during times of war, conflict, and peace. We remember the more than 2,300,000 Canadians who have served throughout our nation’s history and the more than 118,000 who made the ultimate sacrifice. Here is a selection of K–12 books to help celebrate, honour, and learn about history and Remembrance Day with your classroom or library.

A Bear in War

Sergeant Billy
The True Story of the Goat Who Went to War

Hold the Oxo!
A Teenage Soldier Writes Home

And Then the Sky Exploded

I Am Canada: Fire in the Sky
World War I, Paul Townend, Over No Man's Land, 1916

Mr. Hiroshi's Garden

Bear on the Homefront

Stealing Home

Painted Fences

Innocent Heroes
Stories of animals in the First World War

Seasons Before the War

Uncertain Soldier

Remembrance Day

Winnie's Great War

In Flanders Fields
The Story of the Poem by John McCrae

Where Poppies Grow
A World War I Companion