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A young woman holds her newborn son and looks at him lovingly. Softly she sings to him. This is a…
story of how that little boy goes through the stages of childhood and becomes a man. It is also about the enduring nature of parents' love and how it crosses generations. Grades K-3. 1987.
On moving day, Danielle's mom and dad are busy packing boxes. "Danielle," says her mom,"don't just stand there, do something.…
Go take care of the little kids." So Danielle does. She finds Julianne playing with her dolls, carefully puts her in a big box with some towels and tapes it up. Then she goes to find Christopher, Rylan and Laurin, and she takes care of them, too. As the moving truck is leaving, her mom says, "Danielle, you've been such a help. You've kept the little kids so quiet! Where are they?" "On the truck, of course!" says Danielle. "Oh, no!" say her parents and they all get in the car and chase the truck to the new house. Danielle listens to all the boxes finds her little brothers and sisters and lets them out of their boxes. And then they all stay out of Mom's hair while she's unpacking, because the little kids spend the next few days chasing Danielle around, trying to put HER in a box. Grades K-3. 2018.
Kelsey thinks she should live in one house and her mom and dad should visit her. Instead, she puts her…
books and her unicorn picture and her favourite pillow in her suitcase and takes them with her as she goes back and forth. But what will happen when she decides to pack up the dog? A charming story about a girl making the best of her co-parenting situation, and the mom and dad (and dog!) who love her. Grades K-3. 2017.
A young girl is torn between her desire to stay home with her family and her desire to go to…
school and discover the world beyond the mountains that surround them. Grades K-3. 2018.
A gentle tale told entirely through sticky notes between a mother and daughter as the girl's departure for her first…
summer camp draws near demonstrates how love can be found even in scribbled messages and other unlikely places. Grades K-3. 2017.
Throughout his day, a young boy thinks of his father who is working in the coal mine that is located…
underneath the ocean. Winner of the 2018 Lillian Shepherd Award for Excellence in Illustration. Winner of the 2018 TD Canadian Children's Literature Award. Grades K-3. 2017.
Resolving to never have fun again when his family moves to a new city, young Milo watches his little sister…
explore their new neighbourhood. He reluctantly ventures out himself when Georgie goes missing. Grades K-3. 2017.
Gentle rhyming text captures the wonder new parents feel as they welcome baby into the world. A celebration of the…
bond between parent and child, this is the perfect song to share with your little ones. Grades P-2. 2016.
When a teacher asks the children in her class to think about what makes their families special, the answers are…
all different in many ways, but the same in the one way that matters most of all. Grades K-3. 2016.
Mom is very angry. Her very favorite teapot is broken, and no one is 'fessing up. Was it Dad, sitting…
in his underwear reading the paper? Was it Cat, who was all tangled up in a ball of yarn? Was it Baby perched in his highchair? Or is there a surprising twist to this mystery that teaches Mom a little lesson in anger management? Grades K-3. 2016.
Elliot's parents do not know how to take care of him. As Elliot moves from one foster home to another,…
his visits with his real parents leave him anxious and conflicted about where he wants to be. At last he finds stability with a new adoptive family. Grades K-3. 2016. Uniform title: Elliot.
Upset that her family is so focused on the screens on their various electronic devices that they no longer talk,…
laugh, and play games together, Ella takes all of their chargers and small devices. Grades K-3 and older readers. 2012.
Leo wants no part of sitting down with his family to eat Nonna's big, delizioso lunch every Sunday. "I'm not…
hungry," he insists. Not hungry? Clever Nonna gets an idea. She'll use a story to lure Leo to her table. So the pasta in her soup, called stelline (little stars), is woven into the story about a boy who journeys to his grandmother's at night. But again on the following Sunday, Leo doesn't want to eat. So Nonna expands her story, this time adding some chiancaredde (paving stones), the name of the pasta she's serving that day, to create a path for her character to follow. Now Leo's hooked. So much that he begins to badger Nonna every Sunday to reveal more pasta-based details of the story. And week by week, as Leo's relatives crowd around listening to Nonna and teasing Leo to get him to mangia (eat), he slowly comes to realize just how happy he is to have a place at this table. Grades K-3. 2015.
When Leo’s mom announces that there will be a surprise at dinner, she unknowingly sets in motion a riotous chain…
of events. What could the surprise be?! Leo and his brother are desperate to find out. Could it be a bike? A pool? A new car? Their imaginations run wild until they decide it must be an all-expenses-paid, two-week trip to Hawaii! Not surprisingly, the brothers are soon proven wrong. But the ingenious way their family decides to cheer them up poignantly reminds us that, sometimes, embracing what you already have is enough to make you feel “lucky.” Grades K-3. 2014.
Since his little sister Rosie scratched his bicycle, Caillou won't let her play with his toys anymore. But when Caillou…
breaks Daddy's guitar, he understands that everyone has accidents. Grades P-2. 2014.