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Brighter Red is an immigrant author's challenge to all Canadians to move beyond the current, from being good to being the best. It is an invitation to develop a Canadian Conscience. While acknowledging the riches and the success that Canada has achieved, it invites the reader to step beyond the obvious into issues that still plague Canadian society. Poverty, Child Poverty, plight of the First Nations, Youth and Crime, Sports and Education are ...

When sixth-grader Gene Tucks moves south, she dreads being the new kid at school and almost everything else about her life as a "nobody." But what she dreads most is the hundred-day journal-writing assignment her teacher has given the class. His brilliant idea is to have the journals locked in the town museum's vault for forty years so that future grade-sixers can read them. At first, Gene has trouble writing to someone who isn't even born yet...

The blue-striped monster Pickles McPhee runs away to the big city and meets a companion who shows her the sights and accidentally gets her in trouble for burglary.

Believing himself too independent and grown up for sticky, perfume-y and otherwise yucky kisses, a defiant youngster declares a kissing ban and refuses all affection until bedtime, when concerns about possible monsters prompt him to request a just-in-case good night kiss from his mom.

Gwen lives for dancing. When she has the chance to take an intensive - and expensive - course far from home, she knows her parents will object. She also knows that she can usually convince her father to support her. She raises the subject when they're together skiing, but the discussion turns into an angry confrontation that is cut short by a sudden dreadful avalanche that almost kills her dad.The avalanche leaves terrible damage in its wake. ...

Here are five first books for fledgling readers that offer the enjoyment of a good story along with the thrill of accomplishment that comes from independent reading. Written in short, easy phrases with carefully selected vocabulary and plentiful illustrations, each book helps youngsters achieve success as they have fun. The series follows three friends who love to share stories. In each book, one is reminded of a well-known story: Little Red R...

Here are five first books for fledgling readers that offer the enjoyment of a good story along with the thrill of accomplishment that comes from independent reading. Written in short, easy phrases with carefully selected vocabulary and plentiful illustrations, each book helps youngsters achieve success as they have fun. The series follows three friends who love to share stories. In each book, one is reminded of a well-known story: Little Red R...

Describes the world of ghost-tracking and paranormal investigation, including the history of ghost hauntings, the science of paranormal investigation, and what to look for in order to determine if a space is haunted.

Cindy Winters loves to play hockey. When her family's basement apartment is flooded and the floor freezes, she's even happy to skate on the concrete. Her parents are too poor to enroll her in a league, but she's resourceful and does odd jobs until she has earned enough money to play. Armed with her mother's old equipment, she is thrilled to join a team. But her happiness doesn't last long. Among her teammates are the horrible Blister Sisters. ...

Meet Mr. Mosquito, drawn from a Gypsy story. He's cantankerous and nasty enough to raise belly laughs along with the eyebrows of the polite. In a story inspired by Australian bush tales, we meet Ella and Bella, two hilarious (and flatulent) sisters. Angelina's earthy wit is memorialized in a story from Swahili tradition.The eight stories in Rude Stories have roots from Japan to Canada, from Africa to Eastern Europe, but they all share a sense ...

Each book in the True Horse Stories focuses on a contemporary horse from a different part of the world, and each animal is, in his or her own way, a hero.PBJ Decks Smokin Gun (Gunner) is an American Paint Horse, one of the many of Heather Lott Goodwin's herd, and a valuable show animal that won the World Championship Paint Horse title. When Hurricane Katrina passed over the Goodwin property, it took with it the fences, the cattle, and several ...

Filomena is a seamstress who spends her days creating gorgeous wedding dresses for many lovely brides. And when it's finally her turn to be the one to walk down the aisle, she can hardly contain herself. She gets right to work, putting her heart and soul into making her dress. But Filomena gets carried away. She adds so many frills, feathers, and lace that her groom barely recognizes the girl he loves. Here Comes the Bride is a hilarious story...

Mr. Duck and Mr. Rabbit live next to each other and never say "hello." What a difference one little word can make!

Previously published under title: Amazing grace.

Winner of the Mayor's Award for Excellence in Book Illustration, Halifax Regional Municipality (The Atlantic Book Awards) "On a summer's eve, a long time ago, "I made one wish, on the brightest star"in a twinkling night sky"I wished for a cottage by the sea.".."At the seaside, where our narrator lives, there sits a cottage "in a fragrant field of Queen Anne's lace." There is a porch to sunbathe on, a beach full of treasures waiting to be disco...

Nominated in the fiction category for the 2004/2005 Red Cedar Book Awards (British Columbia's Young Reader's Choice book award)Norbert's back, and Alan's got him! In the third of Richard Scrimger's wildly popular Nose books, Alan is off on a camping trip with his good friend, Victor. Fun, right? Not if the person who is taking you camping happens to be Christopher, your mother's new boyfriend. And not if you aren't exactly a fan of the great o...

Nominated for the Governor General's Literary Awards 2005, (Children's Literature, Illustration) As a work of art, as an insight into history, and as a moving story of survival in the midst of pitiless nature, "Maria Chapdelaine" has cast its spell over millions of readers around the world. At least 230 different editions have been published in twenty-three countries since it first appeared in 1916. Maria lives with her family near Peribonk...

Nominated in the nonfiction category for the 2004/2005 Red Cedar Book Awards (British Columbia's Young Reader's Choice book award)Brian McFarlane, one of hockey's best known and most respected historians, has gathered stories from the very first organized game of hockey, to the Olympic gold-medal face-off between Canada and the US at the 2002 Olympics. Whether through a story of courage - such as Mario Lemieux's comeback from cancer - or throu...

Named an Honor Title by the Storytelling World Awards in the category of "Storytelling Anthologies"The samurai prepared themselves for battle through physical practice, and the study of the arts. These ancient stories that inspired warriors so long ago have special significance for today's teens who face battles of their own: battles against bullies, battles with self-doubt and lack of confidence, and battles with the injustices they see aroun...

Laura Secord never thought of herself as brave. She was gentle, shy, and soft spoken. But Laura was brave, and Janet Lunn tells her compelling story. A war between Great Britain and the United States was raging. The American political leaders were sure they would win the war. "It will be a mere matter of marching, " they said. For two years, from the summer of 1812 to the winter of 1814, fierce and bloody battles were fought. One day in the sp...