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Series: Stella and SamRead Me a Story, StellaHardcover
Marie-Louise Gay9781554982165
$16.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 2 - 5
Aug 01, 2013
In the first new Stella book in four years — in a series that has sold two million copies in ten languages — Stella introduces little brother Sam to the pleasures of reading. Sam is as busy and worried as ever, and Stella almost always has her nose in a book these days, but she finds time to help him out, while sharing her new pastime with contagious enthusiasm. Sam has gathered a wagonload of branches to build a doghouse for Fred, and he wonders if the book Stella is reading tells you how to make one. It doesn't (although it is very funny), bu... + Read More
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Series: Out the WindowBoard book
Cybele Young9781554983704
$12.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 1 - 4
Oct 26, 2013
Ingenuity saves the day in this cleverly constructed board book! Bestselling author/illustrator Cybèle Young is back with a board book for the very young. The main character of this charming, nearly wordless story is a small unidentified mammal who accidentally loses his ball one day. Too small to look out the window, the little creature is frustrated at first in his attempts to see where his precious ball has gone. But undeterred, he perseveres until he comes up with a solution to his problem, at which point he discovers that an unusual parad... + Read More
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Series: The VoyageHardcover
Veronica Salinas9781554983865
$16.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7
Aug 10, 2013
This deceptively simple book about adapting to new situations will appeal to children who are just starting school or daycare, children who are about to move to a new home, or children who are learning a new language. In this delightful picture book, a small duck finds itself in a place full of unusual creatures who speak an unfamiliar language. Eventually, it meets an animal whose big feet are a bit like its own. And with a friend by its side, the small duck soon can feel at home. The illustrations are gently humorous, while the simple text af... + Read More
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Series: The Huron CarolHardcover
Ian Wallace9781554983940
$14.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5
Oct 01, 2013
Renowned children's book illustrator Ian Wallace brings his masterful ability to paint landscape and his cultural sensitivity to The Huron Carol, a beautiful and unusual song with a rich history. In the early 1600s Father Jean de Brébeuf came to Canada from his native France as a Jesuit missionary. He settled among the Huron, or Ouendat, people in what is now Midland, Ontario. Despite his missionary zeal, Brébeuf was sensitive to the people with whom he lived. He learned their language and he wrote, in Huron, the original version of this famous... + Read More
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Series: I Know HereHardcover
Laurel Croza9781554983933
$16.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7
Oct 01, 2013
Winner of the 2011 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, the 2010 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the 2011 Ezra Jack Keats and New York Public Library New Writer Award, and a finalist for the Governor General's Award for Children's Illustration The little girl in this story lives with her family in a trailer in northeastern Saskatchewan, where her father is building a dam. She knows everything about the place she lives -- her road, her school, the forest where she plays hide-and-seek and where the wolf howls at night, the hill where she goes tobogg... + Read More
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Series: A Salmon for SimonHardcover
Betty Waterton9781554983926
$14.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6
Oct 01, 2013
Simon has always longed to catch a salmon. But when his luck suddenly changes and an eagle accidentally drops one into a tidal pool, Simon is torn between sympathy for the fish and the desire to catch something of his own.All summer long, Simon, a young First Nations boy, has been desperate to catch a salmon. He goes fishing every day, but has no luck. Then one day a high-flying eagle drops a salmon into a clam hole right before his eyes, and Simon must decide whether to take it home or let it go.This simple story, with its evocative watercolor... + Read More
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Series: Zoom at SeaHardcover
Tim Wynne-Jones9781554983919
$14.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7
Oct 01, 2013
This fanciful nautical adventure stars a winsome cat named Zoom, who stays indoors paddling in the sink or sailing in the bathtub all night when other self-respecting cats are out mousing and howling at the moon. One day Zoom finds in his Uncle Roy's diary a map of the sea and how to get there, which leads him to the huge house of the beautiful Maria. When, with the turn of a large wheel, mysterious Maria launches him on a wonderful sea voyage, the first of Zoom's adventures begins.
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Series: CarambaHardcover
Marie-Louise Gay9781554983902
$16.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 2 - 6
Oct 01, 2013
Caramba is a sweet, shy cat who bravely accepts that he is different, and then discovers his own special talent. Award-winning author and illustrator Marie-Louise Gay, best known for her Stella and Sam books, brings us an endearing character in Caramba, a sweet, shy cat who bravely accepts that he is different, and then discovers his own special talent. Caramba is a fat, furry, striped cat with a big problem. Every single cat in the world can fly, he sighs, except me! Caramba would love to swoop and glide between the clouds, to feel the wind wh... + Read More
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Series: Ghost TrainHardcover
Paul Yee9781554983896
$14.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 10
Oct 01, 2013
The story of a young Chinese girl who arrives in North America only to discover that her father has died building the railway. This powerful, unforgettable and multi-award-winning tale is based on the lives of the Chinese who settled on the west coast of North America in the early 1900s. Left behind in China by her father, who has gone to North America to find work, Choon-yi has made her living by selling her paintings in the market. When her father writes one day and asks her to join him, she joyously sets off, only to discover that he has bee... + Read More
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Series: Once Upon a Northern NightHardcover
Jean E. Pendziwol9781554981380
$17.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7
Aug 01, 2013
Once Upon a Northern Night has received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal. In this exquisite lullaby, the beauty and wonder of a northern winter night unfold, with images of a soft snowfall, the wild animals that appear in the garden, the twinkling stars, the gentle rhythm of the northern lights and the etchings of frost on the window pane. As the young child sleeps, wrapped in a downy blanket, a snowflake falls, and then another and another. The poem describes the forest of snow-covered pines, where a d... + Read More
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Series: The Camel in the SunHardcover
Griffin Ondaatje9781554983810
$17.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) to 5
Sep 30, 2013
Inspired by a retelling of a traditional Muslim hadith, or account of the words or actions of the Prophet, which the author first heard in Sri Lanka, this is the story of a camel whose cruel owner only realizes what suffering he has caused when the Prophet appears and shows love to the animal. The camel has worked its entire life for a man called Halim, carrying bundles of spices, dates, incense, silver and wool on long journeys across the desert, east of the Red Sea. It often has to climb steep dunes, run when it is exhausted, and wait in the ... + Read More
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Series: Northwest PassageHardcover
Stan Rogers9781554981533
$24.95JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 6
Sep 01, 2013
Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Illustration Award-winning artist Matt James takes the iconic song "Northwest Passage" by legendary Canadian songwriter and singer Stan Rogers and tells the dramatic story of the search for the elusive route through the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific, which for hundreds of years and once again today, nations, explorers and commercial interests have dreamt of conquering, often with tragic consequences. For hundreds of years explorers attempted to find the Northwest Passage - a route thr... + Read More
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Series: Just So Stories, Volume IHardcover
Rudyard Kipling9781554982127
$19.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) to 5
Sep 21, 2013
Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories is one of the best-loved story collections ever written for children. Now Ian Wallace, one of Canada's most accomplished children's book illustrators, reinterprets the famous tales with his vibrant art, bringing Kipling to a whole new generation of young readers. Kipling wrote the stories for his young daughter, who would only sleep if they were told “just so.” The first edition was published in Great Britain in 1902, along with black-and-white illustrations by the author himself. The stories have remained in p... + Read More
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Series: The Spotted Dog Last SeenHardcover
Jessica Scott Kerrin9781554983872
$14.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 11
Aug 01, 2013
While volunteering at a local graveyard, Derek discovers that solving a mystery from long ago will also help him put his own present-day fears to rest. While tracking clues from a secret code penciled in the margins of mystery novels at a public library, Derek Knowles-Collier discovers a time capsule that may finally put his haunting past to rest. At QueensviewElementary, grade-six students are required to complete a community service unit as part of their school curriculum. Derek Knowles-Collier was sick when groups were assigned, so he is stu... + Read More
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Series: The Spotted Dog Last SeenPaperback
Jessica Scott Kerrin9781554984015
$9.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 11
Aug 01, 2013
While volunteering at a local graveyard, Derek discovers that solving a mystery from long ago will also help him put his own present-day fears to rest. While tracking clues from a secret code penciled in the margins of mystery novels at a public library, Derek Knowles-Collier discovers a time capsule that may finally put his haunting past to rest. At QueensviewElementary, grade-six students are required to complete a community service unit as part of their school curriculum. Derek Knowles-Collier was sick when groups were assigned, so he is stu... + Read More
Eight tales about heroes and sacrifice, love and family - all rooted in a land that is both challenging and abundant. Some of the stories strike a familiar chord. There is the tiny child, no bigger than a thumb, who outwits a giant; the poor farmer who cannot feed his children and leaves them abandoned in the forest; the princess who breaks an enchantment and releases a prince. Yet the tales are filled with the unexpected, too, as humans, monsters and the natural world transform and intersect. A princess who is pursued by two kings from neighbo... + Read More
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Series: Jane, the Fox and MeHardcover
Fanny Britt9781554983605
$21.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 - 14
Sep 01, 2013
A graphic novel about bullying, body image and the transformative power of fiction. Hélène has been inexplicably ostracized by the girls who were once her friends. Her school life is full of whispers and lies — Hélène weighs 216; she smells like BO. Her loving mother is too tired to be any help. Fortunately, Hélène has one consolation, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Hélène identifies strongly with Jane’s tribulations, and when she is lost in the pages of this wonderful book, she is able to ignore her tormentors. But when Hélène is humiliated on ... + Read More
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Series: Hold FastMedia tie-inPaperback
Kevin Major9781554983766
$9.95YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 15
Aug 01, 2013
Hold Fast is the widely acclaimed story of a young boy's struggle to survive in a new environment and his fight against those who stand as threats to his pride in himself and his way of life. Michael turned fourteen in May. By June, both his parents are dead, victims of a car crash. And for Michael, who has lived all his life in a small Newfoundland outport community, this means being suddenly uprooted and sent to live with relatives in St. Albert, a city hundreds of miles away. Hold Fast is the story of Michael's struggle to survive in his new... + Read More
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Series: Looks Like DaylightHardcover
Deborah Ellis9781554981205
$15.95YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Grade (US) from 7
Sep 30, 2013
After her critically acclaimed books of interviews with Afghan, Iraqi, Israeli and Palestinian children, Deborah Ellis turns her attention closer to home. For two years she traveled across the United States and Canada interviewing Native children. The result is a compelling collection of interviews with children aged nine to eighteen. They come from all over the continent, from Iqaluit to Texas, Haida Gwaai to North Carolina, and their stories run the gamut — some heartbreaking; many others full of pride and hope. You’ll meet Tingo, who has sp... + Read More
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Series: Lily and TaylorHardcover
Elise Moser9781554983346
$16.95YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14
Sep 01, 2013
After her older sister is murdered in a horrific incident of domestic abuse, Taylor begins a new life in a new town. She meets Lily, whose open, warm manner conceals a difficult personal life of her own, coping with her brain-injured mother. The two girls embark on a tentative friendship. But just when life seems to be smoothing out, Taylor's abusive boyfriend, Devon, arrives on the scene, and before they know it, the girls find themselves in a situation that is both scary, and incredibly dangerous. Abetted by Conor, a friend who owes him a fav... + Read More
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Series: Lily and TaylorPaperback
Elise Moser9781554983353
$9.95YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14
Sep 01, 2013
After her older sister is murdered in a horrific incident of domestic abuse, Taylor begins a new life in a new town. She meets Lily, whose open, warm manner conceals a difficult personal life of her own, coping with her brain-injured mother. The two girls embark on a tentative friendship. But just when life seems to be smoothing out, Taylor's abusive boyfriend, Devon, arrives on the scene, and before they know it, the girls find themselves in a situation that is both scary, and incredibly dangerous. Abetted by Conor, a friend who owes him a fav... + Read More
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Series: A Gift from ChildhoodPaperback
Baba Wagué Diakité9781554984213
$12.95JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) to 10
Sep 01, 2013
Baba Wagué is only four years old when he is sent to the tiny Malian village of Kassar, West Africa, to be raised by his paternal grandparents, according to the family tradition. He is most unhappy about this at first, but under his grandmother's patient and wise tutelage, he comes to love his close-knit village community, as he listens to his grandmother's stories, learns about his own history and traditions, and experiences many hilarious and sobering adventures along the way. He learns how to catch a catfish with his bare hands, learns the t... + Read More
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Once Upon a Northern Night Hardcover 9781554981380 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Aug 01, 2013