Join chicks, turtles, and their fuzzy countryside friends as they stretch and yawn and start the day in this new board book series! These adorable board books follow a group of fuzzy backyard families as parents guide their babies through daily life. In Wake Up, Chicks!, readers will see mice and insects starting their days while a family of owls is just settling in to sleep. Sabina Gibson's warm and inviting world is perfect for new families to curl up in together. Don't miss the other books in the Little Loves series: Eat Up, Triceratops, Can Tapir Play?, and Sleep Tight, Polar Bear !
Juvenile fiction
- Auteur:Gibson, SabinaSommaire:
- Auteur:Nason, RielSommaire:
A beautiful celebration of small town life, friendship, and opening up to change! Hope's world is shaken when her parents announce that they're leaving their small New Brunswick town and moving to Toronto for her father's job. Hope's anxiety, manageable before that point, skyrockets as she fears making new friends and leaving her beloved ocean, and the sea glass that she has been carefully nurturing for years. At least there's a tremendous diversion for her final summer — her village of St. David's is one of five entrants in a nationwide TV contest that celebrates "Canada's Tiniest Treasures." In the countdown to the summer's end — and the move date —Hope and her best friend, Willa, dedicate themselves to the St. David's campaign, celebrating what is unique about small town life, and their friendship.
- Auteur:McFarlane, SherylSommaire:
Waiting for the Whales illuminates the unique friendship between grandparent and child and celebrates the restorative power of the natural world. An old man lives alone on a bluff overlooking the sea, tends his garden and waits. Only when the whales return each year to the bay in front of his cottage is his loneliness eased. Until, one day, an unexpected visitor arrives. Originally published over thirty years ago, this award-winning picture book is sure to enchant a whole new generation of readers.
- Auteur:McFarlane, SherylSommaire:
In this timeless picture book, an old man lives alone on a bluff overlooking the sea and awaits the whales' return each year to the bay. This edition combines both written and spoken words.
- Auteur:Connor, LeslieSommaire:
Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.
- Auteur:Munsch, RobertSommaire:
It is Olivia's birthday, and when she blows out the candles on her cake and makes a wish, she gets exactly what she wanted—SNOW, SNOW, and MORE SNOW, even though it's summertime. All that snow leads to too much trouble, though, so Olivia's parents bake her another cake so she can make a new wish that will get rid of it. But when that wish, and the next one, and the next one lead to even more trouble what will Olivia do to solve it? Wait and see!.
- Auteur:Speidel, SageSommaire:
A mother - the author of this story - shares Lakota cultural experiences with her daughter, introducing her to waci (dance) as a way to celebrate life. Wacipi (powwow), where the dancing occurs, is a setting for Indigenous song, dance, regalia, food and crafts. A warm, family story for all ages, Waci! Dance! visually embraces the joy of being together and caring for each other. (A glossary and author's note are included.)
- Auteur:Duchesne, Christiane, Côté, Geneviève, Kunigis, PaulSommaire:
Enhanced ebook featuring a narrated story and a recorded song performed by Karen Young and Glen Bowser. Learning the alphabet is bound to be fun as you go on a wild and amazing musical odyssey through the letters A to Z. Zany, hilarious characters come to life through expressive watercolor illustrations.
- Auteur:Perro, BryanSommaire:
1- VOYAGE AUX ENFERS Prisonnier des Enfers, le porteur de masques devra traverser l'Achéron, le fleuve du chagrin, le Styx, l'affluent de la haine, le Phlégéton, la rivière en flammes, le Cocyte, le torrent des lamentations, et le Léthé, le ruisseau de l'oubli, afin d'atteindre la cité Infernale. C'est dans la capital des neufs Enfers, peuplés de démons et de créatures cauchemardesques, que se jouera le destin déjeune héros. 2 - LA CITÉ DE PÉGASE Amos se retrouve chez les icariens, des hommanimaux vivant dans une grande cité située au sommet de la haute montagne du continent. Le porteur de masque y vivra sa première histoire d'amour, mais il devra garder la tête froide puisque pèsent sur lui les terribles prédictions de l'oracle, la prophétie des gardiens du dogme et les intrigues qui rongent la ville. 3- LA TOISON D'OR Animé par l'ambition de gouverner le royaume des Quinze et de mener une croisade contre tous les humanoïdes du monde, Barthélémy part à la recherche de la toison d'or. Selon une vieille légende, cette cape magique rend inviolé celui qui la porte, et le chevalier mettra tout en oeuvre pour se la procurer.
- Auteur:Epstein, Adam JaySommaire:
Chopping blades, scorpion nests, giant spider webs - no one makes traps better than Wily Snare. He has never seen the sun or a blue sky or even his parents. Wily Snare lives underground, creating traps to keep treasure-seekers away from the gold in an ancient wizard's dungeon. He spends his days mopping up giant-slug slime, avoiding poison darts, and herding undead skeletons. It's all he knows. But then an unusual band of adventurers?an acrobatic elf, a warrior with a magic arm, and a giant made of moss - successfully defeat Wily's traps. And they want the ultimate treasure: Wily himself. His skills can help them invade every other dungeon in the kingdom. He might even aid their fight against the Infernal King, whose gearfolk and prisonauts terrorize the land. But for a boy who has never been outside, dungeons aren't nearly as scary as the world above-or an evil king who builds the trickiest traps of all...
- Auteur:Jacques, BrianSommaire:
Continuing their adventures through space and time, Ben and his faithful dog, Ned, find themselves in the Mediterranean region in 1703, befriended by a troupe of traveling entertainers and relentlessly pursued by ruthless Barbary slave traders.
- Auteur:Spafford-Fitz, KarenSommaire:
Highlighting girls' volleyball, a sport which has overtaken girls' basketball in popularity, Volleyball Vibe shows how engagement in sports can boost self-esteem, confidence, and foster responsibility and teamwork. The main character, Ria, is a teen girl living in Edmonton, Alberta, whose obsession with beauty and fashion leads her mother to insist that she either get a job or join a team sport. At an age when too many girls stop competing athletically, Ria discovers her own capabilities as well as the rewards of challenging herself and connecting with others on a team.
- Auteur:Walker, DanSommaire:
Zoya DeLarose se réveille dans un bateau volant grinçant au beau milieu de la nuit. Elle n'a aucune idée des raisons pour lesquelles elle a été clandestinement enlevée ni de la façon dont sa vie est sur le point de changer à jamais… Dans les nuages, Zoya découvre un monde de tempêtes de météorites, de combats à l'épée, de raids de minuit, d'îles flottantes, de trésors perdus depuis longtemps et, le plus surprenant, un monde d'amitié, d'honneur et de confiance. Mais, avec l'ennemi le plus mortel qui se rapproche, Zoya trouvera-t-elle la force de planer, ou dégringolera-t-elle des cieux sans personne pour ralentir sa chute? Bienvenue à bord, bienvenue dans le monde des voleurs de ciel….
- Auteur:Russell, VirginiaSommaire:
Winner of the Canadian Children's Book Centre Choice: Best Books for Kids & Teens Dave gets more excitement than he bargained for on his summer holidays to British Columbia's Gulf Islands while visiting his grandparents. He meets THAA, WEN, an elderly member of the Saanich Native Band and Rick, a new friend from Mayne Island. Together they discover an old Native campsite and THAA, WEN tells stories of the raiding parties that swept down the west coast long before the first white man arrived. Adventure begins when Dave is caught up in a search for the truth about what happened long ago at the ancient site.
- Auteur:Le Guin, Ursula K.Sommaire:
Young Memer takes on a pivotal role in freeing her war-torn homeland from its oppressive captors.
- Auteur:Hartt-Snowbell, SarahSommaire:
New Year’s 1955 is coming up fast, and eleven-year-old Vivian is determined to buy a snazzy new diary. The diary is soon put to good use, as Vivian must untangle the web of problems in her life, including a stolen keepsake of her grandfathers and her constantly arguing parents. Does her grandfather suspect her when he realizes one of his greatest treasures is missing? Does her father really mean it when he says hes leaving? Compelled to do everything in her power to keep her family together, Vivian, a natural trouble-magnet and her own worst enemy, must work through these humongous problems.
- Auteur:Baldacchino, ChristineSommaire:
In this thoughtful story about understanding and acceptance, Violet’s natural introversion and feelings of social anxiety are normalized when she and her father reach a solution together.
- Auteur:Duprey Stehlik, Tania, Vuleta Jovanovic, VanjaSommaire:
When Violet's father comes to pick her up at school, one of her classmates asks: How come your Dad is blue and you're not? Violet comes to appreciate the beauty of being different.
- Auteur:Jocelyn, Marthe, Scrimger, RichardSommaire:
When Wylder Wallace spills his lunch on Addy Crowe at ComicFest then discovers that her uncle is a steampunk comic artist, Wylder embarks on a series of adventures with Addy involving the loss of her pet rat and the unfolding of a comic book story.
- Auteur:Henighan, TomSommaire:
Short-listed for the 2007 Ottawa Book Award for Fiction When 17-year-old Rigg and his friend Ari hang a marauding wolf in the wilds of medieval Greenland, they get much more than they bargained for: a hint of werewolves, glimpses of human sacrifice to the old Norse gods, and an encounter with a resourceful native girl that changes their lives forever. This adventure brings Rigg and Ari into conflict with Rigg’s grandfather, Erik the Red, the ruler of the Greenland Norse colony, and with his daughter, Freydis, skilled in black magic. Rigg must fight a mysterious warrior known only as Death Watcher and lead a dangerous expedition to rescue his father, Leif Eriksson. Based on history and Viking beliefs and customs, Viking Terror is a striking tale of conflict between young and old, pagan and Christian, Norse settlers and Greenland natives. The skill and courage of Rigg and Ari are pitted against strong and wily adversaries, with the survival of the new Norse colony in Greenland at stake.
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