• Freda the Fry

    Freda the Fry

    Created by: Judith Graves
    Artist: Marla Lesage
    Publisher: Acorn Press
    $24.95
  • Every Leaf on Every Tree Cover

    Every Leaf on Every Tree

    Created by: Lauren Soloy
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    A tender and playful baby board book bursting with declarations of love from the bestselling author/illustrator of The Hidden World of Gnomes.

    $14.95
  • Tummy Time Friends A fold-out book

    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Your baby will love to look at the smiling baby faces in this fun, accordion-style book. Unfold it on the floor during tummy time (an important developmental activity to strengthen baby’s neck and back muscles) and your baby can say hello to their new friends, and gaze at their own face in the mirror at the centre of the book. Perfect for new parents or as a gift.

    $12.95
  • If You Could Be Anything

    Created by: Jennifer Britton
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    A gentle lullaby celebrating the abundant nature of the East Coast, from the illustrator of Wildflower and The Book of Selkie.

    If you could be anything, what would you be?
    I’d be a tall ship, racing fast on the sea
    I’d fill up my sails with the salty cool breeze
    If I could be anything. If it were up to me.

     

    $22.95
  • Mi’kmaw Daily Drum Mi’kmaw Culture for Every Day of the Week

    Created by: Alan Syliboy
    Artist: Alan Syliboy
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Mi’kmaq artist Alan Syliboy’s daily drum artworks paired with a different day of the week in an accessible and beautiful baby board book.

    $14.95
  • Read Talk Play Baby Steps to Reading

    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Rub a dub dub
    Splashing in the tub
    You can say bubble
    BUB, BUB, BUBBLE
    Rub a dub dub

    The road to reading begins at birth, and talking, playing, and reading with your baby lays a solid foundation to build a lifetime of loving books and learning.

    Read Talk Play is three books in one: the perfect starter collection to introduce babies to the joy of books and reading. It features photo images that will capture a babys attention, and bouncy text that is fun to read aloud. Divided into three “mini books,” each section is introduced with helpful tips for caregivers on how babies learn to talk and read, and how play is essential to learning—all based on developmental research. Perfect for families, libraries, baby shower gifts, and early literacy promoters and educators.

    $14.95
  • Here Babies, There Babies in Summer

    Created by: Nancy Cohen
    Artist: Carmen Mok
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    This delightful board book for babies follows baby on a typical summertime day.

    $10.95
  • My Hair is Beautiful

    Created by: Shauntay Grant
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Celebrate natural hair with Governor General’s Award-nominated author Shauntay Grant in this joyful board book. With accessible text and vibrant photos of toddlers sporting afros, cornrows and everything in between, My Hair is Beautiful brings a powerful message of self-love.

    $9.95
  • Say Goodnight

    Created by: Emily Manning
    Artist: Becky Cameron
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    This charming lift-the-flap book is perfect for parents and children to read together to get ready for bedtime. With soft rhyming text and beautiful artwork, it encourages young ones to say goodnight by putting away their toys, closing the curtains, and turning on the nightlight. Each page has fun flaps to open and close which change the time on the clock, open the toy box, draw back the drapes to reveal cute animal friends, and more.

    $9.95
  • Mi’kmaw Animals

    Created by: Alan Syliboy
    Artist: Alan Syliboy
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Alan Syliboy, author of The Thundermaker, showcases his vibrant artwork in this new baby board book. Colourful images depicting Canadian animals like moose, whales, and caribou, and more makes this vibrant book a perfect introduction to the Mi’kmaw language. With English and Mi’kmaw translations for the animal names on every page, babies will enjoy the vivid paintings while they learn new words and discover a bit of Mi’kmaw culture in a fun way.

    $14.95
  • Maud Lewis Colours

    Artist: Maud Lewis
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Maud Lewis Colours is a perfect first introduction to colours through the joy-filled art of Nova Scotia’s most famous folk painter, Maud Lewis. Even the youngest babies will be drawn to the bright colours and bold forms in Lewis’s whimsical paintings. Babies and toddlers will have fun learning their colours as they explore each vibrant image. A perfect companion to Maud Lewis 1 2 3, this set makes a great baby gift.

    $13.95
  • Counting in Mi’kmaw / Mawkiljemk Mi’kmawiktuk

    Created by: Loretta Gould
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    One is Ne’wt, for one bear. Two is Ta’pu, for two women making offerings. Counting from one to ten in English and Mi’kmaw, baby is introduced to both the ancestral language of Mi’kmaki and to Mi’kmaw culture and legend, through beautifully rendered illustrations of important animals, like turtle, bear, and beaver, to concepts integral to the Mi’kmaw world view, like the Four (Ne’w) Directions, and the Seven (L’luiknek) Mi’kmaw teachings. Features bright and detailed illustrations from celebrated Waycobah-based Mi’kmaw illustrator, Loretta Gould.

    $14.95
  • Let’s Point!

    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    When baby reaches about 12 months of age, pointing becomes a powerful way to communicate. Let’s Point! features curious and wonder-filled babies pointing at the many interesting things around them. Foil-embellished images of everyday objects accompanied by simple text invite baby to engage in their own pointing, and encourage early communication and conversation between parent and child. A perfect first-birthday gift and ideal for early literacy programs, Let’s Point! will excite baby’s curiosity about the world around them.

    $12.95
  • Atlantic Animal ABC

    Artist: Angela Doak
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    From Atlantic puffin to zooplankton, with lots of wild Atlantic Canadiana in between–like lobster, brown bat, moon jellyfish, porcupine, and more–Atlantic Animal ABCs is the perfect introduction for young ones to the region’s wildlife.

    With vibrant paper collage illustrations, Angela K. Doak’s whimsical animal interpretations are a great teaching tool for introducing baby to alphabet and animals all at once, and leave lots of room for play!

    $16.95
  • Let’s Read!

    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Let’s Read! brings parents, babies and books together to celebrate the joys of reading. This latest book in the popular Baby Steps series shows the many ways babies engage with books at different ages and stages, from looking and listening to pointing at pictures and choosing their bedtime books. See the foundation of reading build, from a newborn listening to their parent’s voice to a toddler excited about reading. Evocative photos of babies interacting with books and a bouncy read-aloud text will appeal to baby and parent alike. Every new parent will want Let’s Read! on their baby’s bookshelf.

    $10.95
  • Look at Me Now !

    Artist: Carmen Mok
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Look At Me Now! is a celebration of the many developmental milestones of toddlerhood. The book follows an 18-month-old through his day as he proudly practices new skills, like getting dressed and walking up stairs. The bouncy text has a celebratory beat that reinforces a toddler’s confidence in his new accomplishments and the charming illustrations are filled with eye-catching details that will invite lively conversation between parent and child. Toddlers will want to hear this story over and over again!


    $10.95
  • Baby Talk

    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Baby Talk is the third book in the Baby Steps series. Each book in the series focuses on a key developmental stage in baby’s first year. Babies love to communicate with the ones they love. With its modern twist on classic nursery rhymes, Baby Talk gives families the opportunity to have fun with sounds and words that are the building blocks of early language. Baby Talk will encourage baby’s first words in a fun and playful way.

    $8.95
  • I Spy a Bunny

    Created by: Judy Dudar
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Mandy and her Aunt Carla are spending the day at White Point Beach. They are playing I Spy, but Mandy is too busy climbing rocks, building sandcastles, and watching surfers to find the white-nosed bunny rabbit Aunt Carla spies.

    This is a wonderful book for anyone who loves Nova Scotia beaches, bright colours, and bunny rabbits!

    Now available in softcover.

    $12.95
  • Baby Play

    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Playing with baby is a bit like a dance-a joyful, back-and-forth rhythm. Baby Play gets the fun rolling with this loving look at baby’s day. Babies will love listening to the bouncy rhythm and rhyme of the text and looking at the bright, bold photos of a baby and family. This is the perfect board book for new parents, baby programs, and baby shower gifts. Extra information for parents is also available through the web link provided on the book’s back cover. Baby Play is the first book in a new series, “Baby Steps”. Each book in the series will focus on a key developmental stage in baby’s first year.

    $9.95
  • Hockey Night Tonight (Board Book)

    Created by: Stompin Tom Connors
    Artist: Brenda Jones
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    An engaging story book version of the Stompin Tom Connors Hockey Song that will stir every hockey lover’s heart.

    $14.95
  • I Spy a Bunny

    Created by: Judy Dudar
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Mandy and her Aunt Carla are spending the day at Nova Scotia’s White Point Beach. They are playing I Spy, but Mandy can’t see the white-nosed bunny Aunt Carla spies!
    On each page, Mandy sees another beautiful part of White Point. There are surfers out in the water and families playing on the beach. There are big rocks to climb and colourful chairs to relax in. Mandy spies white in the waves, in the sand, in the lighthouse, and even in a white-capped chickadee- and just before she snuggles into Aunt Carla for a nap, she finally sees the little black bunny with a white nose.
    This is a wonderful book to read aloud to young children and for early readers to read themselves, especially those who are learning their colours and who love bunny rabbits!

    $17.95
  • Christmas with the Rural Mail

    Artist: Maud Lewis
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    A gentle poem describing the journey of a mailsleigh through rural Nova Scotia at Christmas time, delivering packages and parcels to children, Christmas with the Rural Mail is a holiday classic. The poem is carefully crafted to fit Maud Lewis’s colourful paintings, and the mailsleigh passes children skiing and tobogganing, oxen and Clydesdale horses pulling heavy loads, and the train station, among other classic rural winter scenes.

    Lewis’s artwork is ideal for babies and toddlers, with its bright colours and simple forms, and the paintings and poem together perfectly evoke Christmases gone by. This is a sturdy board book edition great for young readers.

    $12.95
  • Bud the Spud

    Created by: Stompin Tom Connors
    Artist: Brenda Jones
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    The famous and irresistible song about potatoes is now on the printed page in lively storybook form.

    $11.95
  • Hockey Night Tonight

    Created by: Stompin Tom Connors
    Artist: Brenda Jones
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    An engaging story book version of the Stompin Tom Connors Hockey Song that will stir every hockey lover’s heart.

    $7.95
  • Saskatchewan A to Z

    Created by: James Zintel

    Written for 4-7 year-olds, Saskatchewan A to Z familiarizes young readers with the towns and iconic landmarks from across the province. From Aberdeen to Kindersley to Qu’Appelle, Regina and Zealandia, children will meet a colourful cast of characters as they are introduced to the Land of the Living Skies. This beautifully illustrated book should be on every Saskatchewan child’s bookshelf!

    $16.95