The wind brings Millicent a hoped-for friend.
Picture books
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Author:Munsch, Robert N.Summary: - Author:Forsythe, MatthewSummary:
From the creator of the acclaimed and beloved Pokko and the Drum comes an emotionally resonant picture book about trust, worry, and loyalty between a father and daughter. Mina and her father live in a hollowed-out tree stump on the edge...
- Author:Poll, WillieSummary:
A young Indigenous water protector named Minnow goes on an underwater journey; learning from our ocean-living relatives. When she returns to the surface, she gathers her community to help make a change. This story is told in lyrical...
- Author:Vermette, KatherenaSummary:
Misaabe tells great stories -- about trolls, and x-ray glasses, and secret agents, and his super-exciting life. But is real life so bad? The Seven Teaching of the Anishinaabe -- love, wisdom, humility, courage, respect, honesty, and...
- Author:Fulton, JulieSummary:
John Logie Baird loves inventing things! When he hears about another inventor who has built a machine to show real live pictures, John sets about trying to do the same. Equipped with bits and pieces found in his house, John begins a...
- Author:Appelt, KathiSummary:
Mogie is a real-life Labradoodle with a special talent: he always knows just what a sick kid needs! Get to know this passionate pup with this story by a Newbery Honoree. Give that dog a puddle and he'd splash. Give him a whistle and he'...
- Author:Thompkins-Bigelow, JamilahSummary:
A khimar is a flowing scarf that my mommy wears. Before she walks out the door each day, she wraps one around her head. A young girl plays dress-up with her mother's headscarves, feeling her mother's love with every one she tries on....
- Author:Fournier, GinetteSummary:
Didi the dragonfly is at her wit's end--she needs Monica-Claire's help. Their mischievous friend, No-Tail the squirrel, has a play to perform in exactly one hour and he's nowhere to be found! It's wintertime in St....
- Author:Fournier, GinetteSummary:
Lili, la libellule, est dans tous ses états. Elle ne sait pas quoi faire. Il lui faut à tout prix l'aide de Monica-Claire. Leur ami, Pas d'queue, doit jouer dans une pièce de théâtre dans une heure exactement, mais il est...
- Author:Cuyler, MargerySummary:
A monster sneaks into a boy's room and cleans up while the boy is asleep.
- Author:O'Dell, DanSummary:
Two best friends, a young boy and a monster truck, cooperate to clean up the big mess they make when they CRASH into the recycling bin, after Gus's imagination takes over and let's Buck do the driving.
- Author:Cowley, Joy.Summary:
A magical tree grows on the moon spreading leaves into the sea that turn into beautiful moon fish.
- Author:Hill, Susanna LeonardSummary:
From high up in the sky, the Moon has spent her whole life watching Earth and hoping for someone to visit. Dinosaurs roam, pyramids are built, and boats are made, but still, no one comes. Will friends ever come to visit her? One day a...
- Author:Seto, LorettaSummary:
In this picture book, a young girl shares the special celebration of the Chinese Moon Festival with her parents. This edition combines both written and spoken words.
- Author:Jackson, Troy, Khaki, El-FaroukSummary:
Tajalli, Mujtaba, and Aasiya just want a break from adult conversations. They go to check out the old garden in their new mosque building, and end up making a new friend and learning an important lesson about caring for the earth.
- Author:Musgrave, SusanSummary:
Young twins can't get enough of their favorite fruit in this rhyming board book. This edition combines both written and spoken words.
- Author:Wayland, April HalprinSummary:
A family's Passover celebration is equal parts warmth and charm in this cozy picture book, adapted for audio, with the traditional seder song “Dayenu” as the grateful refrain. In this story told in spare, lyrical prose, a Jewish...
- Author:Baldacchino, ChristineSummary:
A young boy faces adversity from classmates when he wears an orange dress at school.
- Author:Munsch, Robert N.Summary:
The story" ... of a little boy who won't go to sleep at night and who drives his family crazy with his rowdiness ... (It is) of tremendous appeal to kids and parents at the same stage".--Globe and Mail.
- Author:Cowley, Joy.Summary:
Itty-Bitty Kitty asks Mouse to leave the house, but when Kitty realizes how lonely it is, Mouse is invited back.
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