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Marco Polo (Connais-tu? ; #3)
By Johanne Ménard. 2010
Connais-tu Marco Polo, le plus intrépide voyageur du Moyen Âge? Ce fils de marchand de Venise parti au bout du…
monde à l'âge de 17 ans? Celui dont les aventures extraordinaires ont inspiré de grands explorateurs comme Christophe Colomb? Années 1-3. 2010.Maya Angelou (Little people, big dreams ;)
By Lisbeth Kaiser, Leire Salaberria. 2016
Maya Angelou spent much of her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas. After a traumatic event at age eight, she stopped speaking…
for five years. However, Maya rediscovered her voice through wonderful books, and went on to become one of the world's most beloved writers and speakers. Grades K-3 and older readers. 2016. Uniform title: Pequeña & grande.Yoga Baby
By Amy Hovey. 2019
Can you roar like a lion? Flutter like a butterfly? Stand strong and tall like a mountain? Then you can…
do yoga! This exuberant rhyming board book celebrates the simple joy of yoga and the natural shapes that even the littlest yogis and yoginis can make with their bodies. Poses such as happy baby, child's pose and downward dog are ones you will see children spontaneously explore from a very young age. Babies and toddlers intuitively know the movements that restore their bodies and minds. Yoga Baby celebrates this mindful playfulness with a diverse selection of babies doing what babies love to do: feeling good and having fun!A Likkle Miss Lou: How Jamaican Poet Louise Bennett Coverley Found Her Voice
By Nadia L. Hohn. 2019
A Kirkus Reviews most anticipated picture book of fall 2019, new from Nadia L. Hohn, named one of CBC’s “6…
Black Canadian writers to watch” Louise Bennett Coverley, better known as Miss Lou, was an iconic poet and entertainer known for popularizing the use of patois in music and poetry internationally—helping to pave the way for artists like Harry Belafonte and Bob Marley to use patois in their work. This picture book tells the story of Miss Lou’s early years, when she was a young girl growing up in Jamaica. As a child, Miss Lou loved words—particularly the Jamaican English, or patois, that she heard all around her. As a young writer, Miss Lou felt caught between writing “lines of words like tight cornrows,” as her teachers instructed, and words that beat more naturally “in time with her heart.” The uplifting and inspiring story of a girl finding her own voice, this is also a vibrant, colorful, and immersive look at an important figure in our cultural history. With rich and warm illustrations bringing the story to life, A Likkle Miss Lou is a modern ode to language, girl power, diversity, and the arts. End matter includes a glossary of Jamaican patois terms, a note about the author’s “own voice” perspective as a Jamaican-Canadian writer, and a brief biography of Miss Lou and her connection to Canada, where she lived for 20 years.How to Solve a Problem: The Rise (and Falls) of a Rock-Climbing Champion
By Ashima Shiraishi. 2020
From Ashima Shiraishi, one of the world's youngest and most skilled climbers, comes a true story of strength and perseverance--in…
rock climbing and in life.To a rock climber, a boulder is called a "problem," and you solve it by climbing to the top. There are twists and turns, falls and scrapes, and obstacles that seem insurmountable until you learn to see the possibilities within them. And then there is the moment of triumph, when there's nothing above you but sky and nothing below but a goal achieved.Ashima Shiraishi draws on her experience as a world-class climber in this story that challenges readers to tackle the problems in their own lives and rise to greater heights than they would have ever thought possible.Through the wardrobe: how C. S. Lewis created Narnia
By Lina Maslo. 2020
As a child, Clive Staples Lewis imagined many things...heroic animals and knights in armor and a faraway land called Boxen.…
He even thought of a new name for himself-at four years old, he decided he was more of a Jack. As he grew up, though, Jack found that the real world was not as just as the one in his imagination. No magic could heal the sick or stop a war, and a bully's words could pierce as sharply as a sword. So Jack withdrew into books and eventually became a well-known author for adults.But he never forgot the epic tales of his boyhood, and one day a young girl's question about an old family wardrobe inspired him to write a children's story about a world hidden beyond its fur coats...a world of fauns and queens and a lion named Aslan. A world of battles between good and evil, where people learned courage and love and forgiveness. A magical realm called Narnia. And the books he would write about this kingdom would change his life and that of children the world overShe made a monster: how Mary Shelley created Frankenstein
By Felicita Sala, Lynn Fulton. 2018
Recounts the night that Mary Shelley became inspired to create her monster, Frankenstein, and how her chilling story, originally part…
of a friendly contest, endured for generations. For grades 2-4. 2018The boo-boos that changed the world: a true story about an accidental invention (really!)
By Barry Wittenstein, Chris Hsu. 2018
After his new bride, Josephine, injured herself repeatedly in the kitchen, Earle Dickson invented a homemade adhesive bandage that eventually…
became a Band-Aid. Discusses the history of how the little bandage was mass produced, distributed, and became a popular household item. For grades K-3. 2018Just like Beverly: A Biography of Beverly Cleary (Growing to Greatness)
By David Hohn, Vicki Conrad. 2019
Biography of Beverly Cleary, from her roots in Oregon to her years as a librarian and, eventually, children's book writer.…
Author of the beloved Ramona series, Cleary wrote the stories she longed for as a child. For grades K-3. 2019Finding Narnia: the story of C.S. Lewis and his brother
By Jessica Lanan, Caroline McAlister. 2019
Introduces the beloved creator of The Complete Chronicles of Narnia (DB 50083), as a young boy named Jack, who grew…
up dreaming of other worlds with his brother, Warnie. For grades K-3. 2019One plastic bag: Isatou Ceesay and the recycling women of the Gambia
By Miranda Paul. 2020
The inspiring true story of how one African woman began a movement to recycle the plastic bags that were polluting…
her community. Plastic bags are cheap and easy to use. But what happens when a bag breaks or is no longer needed' In Njau, Gambia, people simply dropped the bags and went on their way. One plastic bag became two. Then ten. Then a hundred. The bags accumulated in ugly heaps alongside roads. Water pooled in them, bringing mosquitoes and disease. Some bags were burned, leaving behind a terrible smell. Some were buried, but they strangled gardens. They killed livestock that tried to eat them. Something had to change. Isatou Ceesay was that change. She found a way to recycle the bags and transform her community. This inspirational true story shows how one person's actions really can make a difference in our world.Enormous SMALLNESS: a story of E. E. Cummings
By Kris Di Giacomo, Matthew Burgess. 2015
Presents the life and work of the twentieth-century American poet Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962). Focuses on his fascination with words…
from a young age and highlights his poetry's inspirational and innovative qualities. For grades 2-4. 2015One plastic bag: Isatou Ceesay and the recycling women of the Gambia (Millbrook Picture Books)
By Elizabeth Zunon, Miranda Paul. 2015
The Pilot and the Little Prince: the life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
By Peter Sís, Peter Sis. 2014
A biography of French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Antoine was one of the first pilots to deliver mail…
by plane, and he wrote of the adventures that later influenced his book The Little Prince (DB 44071). For grades 3-6 and older readers. 2014Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude
By Jonah Winter, Calef Brown. 2009
And Gertrude and Alice are Gertrude and Alice. And you are welcome to join them for tea. But beware, for…
there you will find a bear in a chair, just barely scary. And here is a beard with a man attached to it. And then, of course, some words might appear, uninvited , but delighted in spite of their lightbulbs. But, but, but, but - that doesn't make any sense! Yes! In a story inspired by the oh-so-modern groundbreaking writing of Gertrude herself, not a lot makes sense. Even so, the oh-so-popular author Jonah Winter, and the ever-so-popular illustrator Calef Brown, and the most popular poodle of all time, Basket, invite you to enter the whimsical world of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. For grades 2-4. 2019The librarian of Basra: a true story from Iraq
By Jeanette Winter. 2005
Alia Muhammed Baker is the librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for…
those who love books. Until now. Now Alia fears that the library and the 30,000 books within it will be destroyed forever. In a war-stricken country where civilians, especially women, this true story about a librarian's struggle to save her community's priceless collection of books reminds us all how throughout the world, the love of literature and the respect for knowledge know no boundaries. For preschool-grade 2Super Oscar
By Mark Shulman, Andrea Montejo, Lisa Kopelke, Oscar de la Hoya. 2006
Will Rogers: an American legend
By Mike Wimmer, Frank Keating, Francis Anthony Keating. 2002
Dewey: there's a cat in the library!
By Vicki Myron, Bret Witter, Steve James. 2009
Dewey the cat, who finds a new home at the Spencer Library when librarian Vicky Myron finds him in the…
return box, learns that young visitors like to chase him, pull his tail, and give him tight hugs, but he soon realizes that, despite the demands, helping people is what he does best. For grades K-3To market, to market
By Nikki McClure. 2011