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Series: A Good Day for Ducks New edition Board book Jane Whittingham 9781772781885 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 1 - 3 Feb 09, 2021

Now a high-quality board book in Pajama Press' Toddler Tough imprint! Rain is falling, and these siblings know just how to enjoy it: raincoats, rubber boots, puddle jumping, swimming ducks, and wiggling worms! A thunderstorm sends the children scrambling for home and a cup of hot cocoa. Maybe it will rain again tomorrow! From the acclaimed creators of Wild One, A Good Day for Ducks is a child-centered celebration of the joy that can be found in any rainy day. Jane Whittingham's spare but sensory-laden text and Noel Tuazon's energetic and endea... + Read More
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Series: Small Things Paperback Mel Tregonning 9781772781328 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Feb 09, 2021

Three starred reviews called Small Things “monumental” (Booklist), “superb” (School Library Journal) and “intense” (Foreword Reviews). In this short, wordless graphic picture book, a young boy feels alone with his anxiety. He isn’t fitting in well at school. His grades are slipping. He’s even lashing out at those who love him. Talented Australian artist Mel Tregonning created Small Things in the final year of her life. In her emotionally rich illustrations, the boy’s worries manifest as tiny beings that crowd around him constantly, overwhelm... + Read More
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Series: Easter Morning, Easter Sun Hardcover Rosanna Battigelli 9781772781779 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6 Mar 16, 2021

A family of cats’ spirited celebration of Easter traditions from the creators of Pumpkin Orange, Pumpkin Round Easter morning, Easter sun, Easter breakfast, Easter bun. What would Easter be without family traditions like hot cross buns for breakfast, a gleeful egg hunt, and a special dinner with loved ones? In infectious rhyme, a family of cats celebrates the holiday with feline fun. The festive bonnets are out, the meadow is alive with spring, and even a tumble and an emptied basket can’t dampen the joy this family of charming cats share. From... + Read More
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Series: Music for Tigers New edition Paperback Michelle Kadarusman 9781772781892 $15.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Mar 08, 2021

From Governor General’s Literary Award finalist Michelle Kadarusman comes a novel about a young violinist who discovers her mother’s family secretly harbor a sanctuary for extinct Tasmanian tigers in the remote Australian rainforest Shipped halfway around the world to spend the summer with her mom’s eccentric Australian relatives, middle schooler and passionate violinist Louisa is prepared to be resentful. But life at the family’s remote camp in the Tasmanian rainforest is intriguing, to say the least. There are pig-footed bandicoots, scary spi... + Read More
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Series: The Egyptian Mirror Paperback Michael Bedard 9781772781106 $15.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Feb 16, 2021

A darkly fantastic middle-grade mystery with the ominous atmosphere loved by fans of Jonathan Auxier and Jonathan Stroud Thirteen-year-old Simon’s life has been knocked askew ever since his family moved into his deceased grandfather’s house. First there’s his eccentric neighbor Mr. Hawkins, who is laid up with a broken leg. Simon’s mother begins sending him over there with dinner for the elderly man, and soon Mr. Hawkins is depending on Simon to fetch old books and manuscript pages from all over his eerie, mirror-filled house. There’s one mirro... + Read More
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Series: Cuckoo's Flight Hardcover Wendy Orr 9781772781908 $21.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Mar 16, 2021

A new gripping Bronze Age story from Wendy Orr, internationally acclaimed author of Dragonfly Song and Swallow’s Dance Clio can’t remember a time when she didn’t share a bond with the mare Grey Girl. On the whole island of Crete, she and her Trojan-born father are the only people who raise and ride horses—and she couldn’t live without it. Between the freedom of the pasture and the safety of her grandmother Leira’s pottery studio, Clio has always had everything she needed. Then an accident stole Clio’s ability to ride, or even to walk without a ... + Read More
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Series: When Elephants Listen With Their Feet Discover Extraordinary Animal Senses Hardcover Emmanuelle Grundmann 9781772781236 $23.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Mar 16, 2021

Explore the wild and wonderful world of animal senses with a dynamic work of children’s nonfiction. Humans experience the world through sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. But what if you had the compound eyes of a fly, the whiskers of a cat, or a whale’s ability to sense magnetic north? There’s a whole world of surprising senses out there, and fascinating adaptations that have allowed animals to make use of them. We can’t interpret the faint vibration of an elephant’s faraway stomp, but learning how they keep in touch with family across t... + Read More
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Series: The Harvey Stories Harvey Comes Home New edition Paperback Colleen Nelson 9781772781984 $15.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Apr 20, 2021

Now in paperback, the award-winning story of a lost West Highland Terrier warming hearts and bringing generations together A dog’s world is a world of scents, of adventure. When a Harvey the West Highland Terrier wanders out of his old life guided only by his nose and his heart, lives begin to converge. Austin, a young volunteer at the Brayside retirement home, quickly finds that the audacious Harvey inspires Mr. Pickering, a bitter resident coping with memory loss, to tell stories of his childhood. Moved by the elderly man’s Dust Bowl recolle... + Read More
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Series: Outside, You Notice Hardcover Erin Alladin 9781772781939 $22.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Apr 20, 2021

A lyrical nonfiction celebration of the outdoors pairing childlike observation with facts about the natural world Outside, you notice things. Time spent in the outdoors stirs a child’s imagination. Nature sparks wonder, wonder leads to curiosity, and curiosity brings about a greater knowledge of the world and one’s self. In Outside, You Notice, a meditative thread of child-like observations (How after the rain / Everything smells greener) is paired with facts about the habits and habitats of animals, insects, birds, and plants (A tree’s roots r... + Read More
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Series: Giraffe Meets Bird 2nd edition Board book Rebecca Bender 9781772781946 $13.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 1 - 3 Apr 13, 2021

An endearing board-book prequel to the laugh-out-loud Giraffe and Bird collection by the award-winning Rebecca Bender For more than a decade Rebecca Bender's award-winning Giraffe and Bird books have been tickling the funny bones of children and their families as the cantankerous cronies learn that friendship, while not always easy, is always worthwhile. But how did this unlikely pair become friends in the first place? In Giraffe Meets Bird, Bender’s bright acrylics and lively storytelling reveal the friends' early days while pairs of scrumpti... + Read More
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Series: Weather Days Sunny Days Hardcover Deborah Kerbel 9781772781977 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 5 Jun 01, 2021

With more enticing collage art and sparkling rhyme from the creators of Snow Days, a preschooler’s celebration of sunny weather and all the activities it makes possible Morning sun, golden skies Softly waking sleepy eyes For preschoolers, sunny days are full of possibility. A sunbeam on the ground is the perfect place to curl up with a furry friend, and warming weather means seeds in the garden, mud pies in the yard, adventures at the beach, and ice cream in the shade. Evening brings the silly fun of watching little shadows stretch out long, a... + Read More
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Series: If Only... Hardcover Mies van Hout 9781772781960 $22.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 May 18, 2021

Bestselling author-illustrator Mies van Hout employs vivid creatures in a jewel-tone natural setting to explore the longing we all feel at times to be like somebody else. What child has not daydreamed about having wings like a butterfly? But secretly, the flashy butterfly yearns for a stick insect’s privacy. And the stick insect wants to swim like a whirligig beetle. One after the other, the denizens of bestselling author-illustrator Mies van Hout's vibrant garden landscape wish to be like somebody else. From the glowing firefly to the capabl... + Read More
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Series: No More Plastic Hardcover Alma Fullerton 9781772781137 $22.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 May 18, 2021

A young girl takes action against ocean pollution in a timely story with unique plastic-waste diorama art from award-winning author-illustrator Alma Fullerton. Isley loves the ocean and everything in it. Well, almost everything. Her heart sinks at the sight of her Alantic Ocean shoreline covered in trash. One day, upon discovering a beached right whale that has starved to death after swallowing plastic, Isley decides enough is enough. She steers her family into adopting a zero-waste lifestyle, inspiring others to do the same. But when the adul... + Read More
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Series: Ballewiena Hardcover Rebecca Bender 9781772781373 $22.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Jun 28, 2022

The award-winning creator of the Giraffe and Bird books introduces Dotty the dancing dachshund, celebrating the gifts of those who struggle to "sit" and "stay" Dotty the dachshund knows she was born to dance ballet. When told to sit, she does a plié. Asked to stay, she does an assemblé. Fed up with Dotty’s lack of discipline, Mrs. Austere sends her to the Canine School of Obedience, but Dotty just can’t seem to learn. Heartbroken, the little dog flees to the park—where an unexpected new friend is waiting. Could he know the secret to helping Do... + Read More
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Series: Harley the Hero Hardcover Peggy Collins 9781772781953 $22.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Jun 22, 2021

An exciting picture book inspired by a real-life classroom service dog with themes of friendship, neurodivergence, and courage Harley the service dog is on the job! He goes to school every day with Ms. Prichard to make sure she feels safe. Their students are a lot of fun, but Harley can’t play with them while he's wearing his work vest. They write him lots of letters instead, and everything is perfect in the best, most quiet class in the whole school. Until the day the old stage curtains catch fire. As the fire alarm blares and chaos erupts, H... + Read More