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A tender and lyrical story celebrating the natural world and our place within it, Wild Trails to the Sea follows a coastal family as seasons change and children grow. With a hopeful refrain, a parent shares their dreams for their young ones, urging them to pay attention to every bit of magic the world has to offer, from watching a mayflower bloom to skipping pebbles on an icy pond, encouraging a lifelong love of natural spaces.
Told in gentle free-verse...
2) Country Baby
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In this endearing board book, mom and baby enjoy a day out on the farm, picking carrots, cuddling sheep and finally coming home for a warm bath and snuggly bedtime. Pull on your boots for a day out on the farm.
Mud puddles, speckled eggs and cozy sheep's wool...It's a day in the country for mom and baby.
It starts when we pull on rubber boots. Then we're ready to splash in puddles, pet the cozy sheep's wool and explore the sounds and sights of...
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In this story an Island girl can hear music in the ocean - not as a metaphor, but as melodies, percussion, harmonies ringing from the waves. In this story an Island girl can hear music in the ocean - not as a metaphor, but as melodies, percussion, harmonies ringing from the waves.
She tries to find someone else in the town who can hear what she hears, but everyone is toonoisy and busy to pay attention.
When a giant storm comes to her town, it makes...
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In this illustrated picture book set in 1952, a young Métis girl anticipates the arrival of electricity in her small town. The river glowed with lights for the first time.
On a cold winter morning in 1952, Patsy Lamondin wakes to the day electricity will finally be connected to her small town along the Magnetawan River.
Patsy and her siblings buzz with excitement, eagerly awaiting the ceremony being held at the center of town. The Lamondins have...
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2022 Bologna Children's Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition winner
2021 The White Ravens catalog
2021 Tartu Prize for Children's Literature
Everyone deserves a quiet, restful retirement. But for John, a newly retired classroom skeleton, life is just beginning. When John is adopted by Grams and Gramps and leaves the classroom to live on their farm, every day is an exciting new adventure: John rides in the car for the first time, makes a snow angel,...
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An Appalachian summer walks the line between toxic and intoxicating in this debut novel about first loves, broken hearts, and moonshine.
Luisa "Lulu" Mendez has just finished her final year of high school in a small Virginia town, determined to move on and leave her job at the local junkyard behind. So when her father loses her college tuition money, Lulu needs a new ticket out.
Desperate for funds, she cooks up the (illegal) plan to make and sell...
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What would it be like to live on a houseboat on the Mississippi River with two parents, four kids, eight chickens, several turtles, a dog, and a cat? Patsy and her family are about to find out! At first, Patsy is upset when her parents decide to move from their home in River City, Illinois, to a houseboat on the Mississippi River. She'll miss her house and friends, and she's sure the trip downriver will be boring. Gradually, she and her brother and...
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Over by the harbour,
In a bog in the sun
Lived an old mother moose
And her little calf one.
"Stomp!" said the mother;
"I stomp!" said the one.
So they ran and they stomped
In a bog in the sun.
A delightful modern adaptation of the classic counting rhyme "Over in the Meadow" set in outport Newfoundland and Labrador, Over by the Harbour teaches young readers counting and rhyming skills while also introducing them to some of the province's most iconic...
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In this charming historical novel, acclaimed artist Lauren A. Mills reimagines her beloved picture book, The Rag Coat, with fifty delicate pencil illustrations and an expanded story about a resilient little girl, her patchwork coat, and how the two bring a community together.
Minna and her family don't have much in their small Appalachian cabin, but "people only need people," Papa always reminds her. Unable to afford a winter coat to wear to school,...
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