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Shrek the third: friends and foes
By Cathy Hapka. 2007
Shrek and Donkey search far and wide to find a king for Far Far Away so that Shrek and Fiona…
can go home to their beloved swamp. Presented in print and Braille. Grades K-3. 2007. Uniform title: Shrek the third (Motion picture)Ike's incredible ink
By Brianne Farley. 2013
Cleaning his room and talking to his best friend while preparing to write what he knows will be an incredible…
story, little Ike discovers that he is missing just the right ink to get his project underway, a need that requires extraordinary effort to fulfill. Grades K-3. 2013.Madeline and the gypsies (Picture puffins)
By Ludwig Bemelmans. 2000
Pepito, son of the Spanish ambassador, and Madeline, rescued by gypsies during a storm, travel and perform with their wandering…
friends until they again find Miss Clavel. Grades K-3. 2000, c1959.King Arthur's very great grandson
By Kenneth Kraegel. 2012
On his sixth birthday, Henry Alfred Grummorson, a descendant of King Arthur and would-be knight, sets out for adventure, but…
neither dragon, nor cyclops, nor griffin, nor leviathan is willing to engage in a real battle. Grades K-3. 2012.The greatest liar on earth
By Mark Greenwood, Frané Lessac. 2012
There is not a whisper when Louis de Rougemont steps onto the stage to recount his astonishing experiences on the…
sea and in lands far away. It is a breathtaking tale of catastrophe and miraculous events. A monster with enormous tentacles! A sea turtle big enough to ride! Fish raining from the sky! Cannibals! But critics say he is an imposter with a gift for spinning yarns. Are Louis’s tales true? Or is he the greatest liar on Earth? Grades K-3 and older readers. 2012.Jack and the flumflum tree
By David Roberts, Julia Donaldson. 2011
Jack's Granny is sick with a bad case of the moozles! And the only cure is the fruit of the…
fantastic flumflum tree which grows on the faraway Isle of Blowyernose. It's a perilous journey, but Jack bravely sets sail, with a motley crew of 3. K-3. c2011.In search of the jewel (The adventures of cosmo the dodo bird)
By Patrice Racine. 2011
When Cosmo, the last dodo bird, and his robot-spaceship friend 3R-V land on a new planet, they are hoping to…
find other dodo birds. What they find instead is a planet full of holes and a strange creature named Diggs who has a giant drill-bit for a hat. Diggs is making the holes while searching for a jewel, but he’s destroying his planet while doing it. Cosmo takes Diggs up into space so that he can see the damage he’s causing. Grades K-3. 2011, c2008. (The adventures of Cosmo the dodo bird)The great illusion (The adventures of cosmo, the dodo bird)
By Pat Rac, Neijib Bentaieb, François Perras. 2011
Cosmo is the last dodo in the world, and since he knows firsthand the toll that people can take on…
Earth's species, he becomes a champion of the environment. With his friend, spaceship 3R-V, Cosmo is searching the galaxy for other dodos when they discover that Zigor the magician is promising to make garbage disappear, but is instead shooting it into space. Grades K-3. 2011, c2009. (The adventures of Cosmo the dodo bird)Fortunately, unfortunately
By Michael Foreman. 2011
The top job
By Elizabeth Cody Kimmel, Robert Neubecker. 2007
On Career Day, a young girl entertains the class with a description of her father's exciting job as light bulb…
changer at the top of the Empire State Building. Grades K-3. 2007.The Girl and the Wolf
By Katherena Vermette. 2019
While picking berries with her mother, a little girl wanders too far into the woods. When she realizes she is…
lost, she begins to panic. A large grey wolf makes a sudden appearance between some distant trees. Using his sense of smell, he determines where she came from and decides to help her. Through a series of questions from the wolf, the little girl realizes she had the knowledge and skill to navigate herself—she just needed to remember that those abilities were there all along.Off to the Park! (Tactile Books)
By Stephen Cheetham. 2014
Come with us to the park! Which way shall we go? What shall we do? What will we find? A…
stunning interactive book for ALL children of all ages, with a delightful surprise at the end. Conceived and designed in association with Booktrust, and developed in consultation with children, families and organisations working with blind and partially-sighted children, OFF TO THE PARK is a unique project that seeks to include all children in the reading experience. Containing tactile features, Braille-style numbering, play elements, high-contrast images and a rhythmic rhyming text, this book is designed to create as sensory and involved experience as possible out of a familiar and well-loved journey.Off & Away
By Cale Atkinson. 2018
How would you get mail if you lived in the middle of the sea? It's Jo's dad's job to deliver…
it, taking bottles wherever they need to go. He always comes home with exciting stories to tell-but Jo is far too afraid to go out on the ocean herself. Until Dad gets a bad sea cold, that is. With no one but Jo to deliver the bottles, she must find her courage and set sail alone. As she embarks on her mission, her fears just might be replaced with new friendships . . . and grand stories of her own.With beautiful, atmospheric art and endearing new characters by author-illustrator Cale Atkinson, this picturebook is a treasure.Giraffe and Bird Together Again (Giraffe and Bird #4)
By Rebecca Bender. 2018
Bird lives for adventure. He wants to swoop, soar, and explore. Giraffe is perfectly happy right where he is, thank…
you very much. He never worries when Bird flits off for a while. But one afternoon his friend fails to return. Giraffe has a bad feeling that something has happened to Bird. Giraffe dreads the wide world full of tangly forests, craggy mountains, and mysterious plains. But he doesn't hesitate. If Bird is in trouble, then Giraffe will find and rescue him. Award-winning author-illustrator Rebecca Bender pushes Giraffe and Bird to new heights of courage, ingenuity, and humour in Giraffe and Bird Together Again. The two unlikely companions are firmer in their friendship, but their antics are just as uproarious as ever. Readers of all ages will laugh and cheer as Giraffe and Bird discover just how far each will go for the other.Even Superheroes Make Mistakes
By Shelly Becker. 2018
What do young superheroes do when they’ve blundered and bungled? They don’t get mad; they get SMART! This fun follow-up…
to Even Superheroes Have Bad Days teaches kids another humorous lesson in overcoming adversity. Even superheroes sometimes slip up and err. And when that happens, do they say, “It’s not FAIR?” or give up in despair? NO! “Ashamed Superheroes who goofed up somehow . . . First STOP . . . then CONSIDER what’s best to do now.” Whether they’ve nabbed the wrong guy by mistake or bashed into a planet while zooming through space, all superheroes ‘fess up their mess-up, get on with their day, and keep on saving the world in the most super way!The summer of the Marco Polo
By Kasia Charko, Lynn Manuel. 2007
In the summer of 1883 a famous clipper ship ran aground off the coast of Prince Edward Island near the…
home of a young girl named Lucy Maud Montgomery, who became one of Canada's most beloved writers. The town of Cavendish and Lucy Maud herself were transformed by the event and the exciting summer that followed. Grades K-3 and older readers. 2007.Tom Crean's rabbit: a true story from Scott's last voyage
By Bert Kitchen, Meredith Hooper. 1998
It's very cold in Antarctica, and the Terra Nova is crowded with both men and animals. Tom the sailor is…
looking for a quiet and cozy place for his pet rabbit to have her babies. From high in the rigging to down in the hold, the crewman takes readers all through the ship while he searches for a spot where his rabbit can make her nest. Based on the diaries of men who sailed to the South Pole on board the Terra Nova in 1910 with Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Grades K-3. 1998.The sea mice and the stars
By Kenneth C Steven, Louise Ho. 2005
One dark winter's night, two young sea mice are wakened by their mother to gaze in wonder at a sky…
sparkling with falling stars. These stars are pieces of magic, their uncle tells them, gifts to the sea mice to keep them safe through the harsh winter. And tonight, the mouse family must set out into the dark and the storms to collect the stars. Grades K-3. 2005.Who's in Maxine's tree?
By Darlene Gait, Diane Carmel Léger. 2006
Maxine has a favourite tree in the forest near her home in the Pacific Northwest. It is special because it…
talks to her. On a trek through the woods, she worries that the loggers will have chopped it down. Then, she meets a tree climber who explains that what makes the tree seem like it is talking is an endangered species of bird that nests there. Grades K-3 and older readers. 2006.Grandma and the pirates
By Phoebe Gilman. 1993