Mile End

Mile End is Isabelle Arsenault's picture-book collection set in the real Montreal neighbourhood where she lives, following a small, changing gang of children through the everyday dramas of their block. Each book is a graphic-novel-style story wrapped in a picture-book jacket, told in delicate hand-lettered comic panels and a soft, limited palette that shifts book to book. The heart of the collection is community: the loose, welcoming crowd of Mile End kids who fold in newcomers, tease and reconcile, and turn ordinary streets into a stage for imagination. Warm, funny and quietly wise about friendship, fairness and finding your place, it is a gentle celebration of childhood in a lively city neighbourhood, equally at home shared aloud or read alone.

Isabelle Arsenault's warm, funny picture-book collection about a gang of city children, told in hand-lettered comic panels and soft colour — everyday adventures on one welcoming Montreal block.

Primary themes

• Belonging
• Community
• Creativity and imagination
• Fairness and justice
• Friendship

Tone palette

• Warm
• Funny
• Gentle
• Whimsical