Canadian fiction, Fantasy, Humourous fiction, Serious and literary fiction
Human-transcribed braille
Pipo's feet are so enormous that he can win races without even moving, but he keeps outgrowing his shoes. Luckily…
a good fairy decides to give him magical red boots that will grow with watering. But these boots quickly change hands - Pipo loses them to an ogre, Pipo's jealous neighbour steals them from the ogre and then buries them. One is found by Pipo's sister, who does something very interesting with it! Grades K-3. 1995. Uniform title: Bottine magique de Pipo.
Kamanya dreams of becoming his tribe's next shaman, and spends his time following the current shaman into the forest and…
learning the secrets of the plants. But local plants can't cure the new diseases brought to the area by strangers, and the pills the strangers bring with them cause the native people to lose faith in the ability of their shaman. Eventually a woman named Gabriella, who comes to study the properties of the rain forest plants, restores the tribe's faith. Grades K-3. 2001. c1998.