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Abbott’s Reach
Publisher: Islandport Press$18.95Ardeana Hamlin grew up in Bingham, Maine, in the 1950s and 1960s, in the days of the river drives, the veneer mill, and the woods operations. Now a newspaper journalist, she lives in Hampden, Maine, and is the author of two previous novels, Pink Chimneys and A Dream of Paris.
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Dahlov Ipcar’s Farmyard Alphabet
Publisher: Islandport Press$12.95Dahlov Ipcar has written and illustrated more than thirty children’s books during her four-decade-long career. Today, her distinctive artwork is known worldwide, with pieces of her work in the collections of numerous renowned museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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The Calico Jungle
Publisher: Islandport Press$18.95Dahlov Ipcar has written and illustrated more than thirty children’s books during her four-decade-long career. Today, her distinctive artwork is known worldwide, with pieces of her work in the collections of numerous renowned museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Shoutin’ into the Fog
Publisher: Islandport Press$15.95“Shoutin’ Into the Fog” is a gritty Depression-era memoir of life in Midcoast Maine. Author Thomas Hanna, a long-time resident of Bath, grew up in the village of Five Islands on Georgetown Island, in a small, crowded bungalow pieced together on the edge of a swamp with second-hand wood and cardboard. He was the eldest son and the second of eight children born to his young mother and his father, a World War I veteran big on dreams, but low on luck. Drawing on insight gleaned from his eighty years, this is a book written with sensitivity, humour, and subtle emotion about a hardscrabble way of life, old-time Maine, and the meaning of both family and forgiveness. His personal tale casts an honest light not only on his own family, but helps illuminate a way of life common to the coast in the 1920s and 1930s that is slowly fading from memory.
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Where Cool Waters Flow
Publisher: Islandport Press$15.95Master Maine Guide Randy Spencer knows the lakes, streams, and woodlands around Grand Lake Stream, Maine, like few others. He has learned the ways of the old Maine Guides – from the proper way to prepare shore lunches, to where to find the best salmon and bass, to how to survive in the wilderness – from some of the area’s local legends. Now, in his first book, “Where Cool Waters Flow”, Randy puts you in the casting seat of his Grand Laker, introduces his many ‘sports’ who come from miles away to decompress, brings you out on the trail during fall hunts, and takes you on many other adventures as only an insider can.
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Nine Mile Bridge
Publisher: Islandport Press$15.95In this critically acclaimed Maine classic, first published in 1945, Helen Hamlin writes of her adventures teaching school at a remote Maine lumber camp and then of living deep in the Maine wilderness with her game warden husband. Her experiences are a must-read for anyone who loves the untamed nature and wondrous beauty of Maine’s north woods and the unique spirit of those who lived there. In the 1930s, in spite of being warned that remote Churchill Depot was ‘no place for a woman’, the remarkable Helen Hamlin set off at age twenty to teach school at the isolated lumber camp at the headwaters of the Allagash River. She eventually married a game warden and moved deeper into the wilderness. In her book, Hamlin captures that time in her life, complete with the trappers, foresters, lumbermen, woods folk, wild animals, and natural splendour that she found at Umsaskis Lake and then at Nine Mile Bridge on the St. John River.
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When I’m With You
Artist: Leslie MansmannPublisher: Islandport Press$15.95Elizabeth Elder has worked as a teacher and a journalist. When I’m With You is her third book and her first full-color children’s book.
Leslie Mansmann has a degree from the Philadelphia College of Art and has worked for more than 25 years
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Hardscrabble Harvest
Publisher: Islandport Press$16.95This is a charming story in verse about the running battle between a farm family and the mischievous animals that plunder their fields. Crows peck at freshly sown seeds, ducks eat new strawberry plants, rabbits nibble on tender lettuces, and racoons dine on ears of ripening corn. All summer long the young farmer and his wife are hard-pressed to protect their growing crops. But autumn comes at last, and the family is ready to celebrate its harvest-bushels of red tomatoes, a cellar full of apples for cider, and pumpkins for pie. In rollicking verse and wonderful illustrations, Dahlov Ipcar tells of all the hard work that goes into making a bountiful fall harvest.
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The Little Fisherman
Artist: Dahlov IpcarPublisher: Islandport Press$16.95The Little Fisherman is a milestone in the illustrious career of the legendary Dahlov Ipcar. The Little Fisherman, originally published in1945, was the very fist children’s book illustrated by the then-twenty-eight-year-old artist. The book, with its authentic coastal scenes, helped establish her distinctive style and ignited a four-decade creative run that saw her write and illustrate more then thirty books, all from her farm studio overlooking her farm on Georgetown Island, Maine. The fact that Ipcar’s first book was also written by the legendary writer Margaret Wise Brown only adds to its importance in the world of children’s literature.
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Cat at Night
Publisher: Islandport Press$16.95Dahlov Ipcar has writen and illustrated more than thirty children’s books during her four decade long
career. Today, her distinctive artwork is known worldwide, with pieces of her work in the collections of
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Fish House Door
Artist: Astrid SheckelsPublisher: Islandport Press$18.95
The late Robert F. Baldwin was a modern day troubadour, singing, playing the banjo, and collecting and
telling stories wherever he went. His articles and stories have appeared in numerous magazines. His
children’s books include This is the Sea That Feeds Us, and Cities Through Time: Beijing.
Astrid Sheckels was born and raised in the farming town of Hatfield, Massachusetts. She cannot remember a
time when she wasn’t listening to, telling, or illustrating stories. Her detailed illustrations give every story more depth and dimension. Astrid’s first children’s book was the award-winning The Scallop
Christmas published by Islandport Press in 2009. She lives, paints, and teaches in western
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My Wonderful Christmas Tree
Publisher: Islandport Press$16.95Dahlov Ipcar has writen and illustrated more than thirty children’s books during her four decade long
career. Today, Ipcar’s distinctive artwork is known worldwide, with pieces of her work in the collections
of numerous renowned museums, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American
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Scallop Christmas
Artist: Astrid SheckelsPublisher: Islandport Press$16.95Jane Freeberg lives on Georgetown Island in Midcoast Maine and has lived in the state for thirty years. The Scallop Christmas is based on a true story told to her by her friend Marcia, who lived most of the story.
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Halifax Explosion Mystery
$9.95It’s 1934 and junior detectives Dan Veinotte and Becky Wentzell travel to Halifax to find an heirloom lost during the Halifax Explosion. Dan is caught with stolen property and taken to the County Jail. To clear his name he must first help a jail mate prove her innocence. The plan is foiled and Dan is left to die in the tunnels beneath the Citadel. Follow the clues to reveal the identity of a reluctant villain.
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Mystery Marauders
$9.95It’s 1933 and junior detective Dan Veinotte faces his toughest case yet–the mystery of Oak ISland. Skeletons, a cryptic message, a Spanish coin, and an old family ring lead to a ghostly encounter. Clairvoyant friend Becky Wentzell fears for Dan’s life. Follow the clues and solve a 120-year-old mystery.
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The Dolphin Way
Publisher: AR Live$16.95Discover the magic of an underwater world with three-year-old dolphin Mattie and his friends. As youngsters, it’s their first time attending the “Dolphin Olympics”, where dolphins from all over the world gather to participate in events such as the “Great Challenge” and the “Most Flips in a Single Jump” contest. Challenges for Mattie are quick to find him, and during his exploits he gains the knowledge and confidence to become an independent dolphin.
The Dolphin Way tells the tale of Mattie’s adventures while also revealing important facts and information about dolphins and their wonderful, fragile underwater environment. Learning about dolphins, marine life, and so much more is made easy and fun. All of the fun facts have been researched with an eye on the educational curriculum that every child should know.
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Hockey, Kids & Positive Coaching
Publisher: Lofeex Publishing$9.95An inspiring tale about a young boy whose love for the game of hockey is affected by the pressures placed on him by the adults closest to him. It demonstrates the value of love and how a child’s growth and development are enhanced when guided by people who are more concerned about feelings of self-worth than numbers on a scoreboard.
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Moonlight Marauders
$9.95Junior detective Dan Veinotte and his best friend, Becky Wentzelle, are on a wild treasure hunt to find the missing gold nuggets. This is the second book in the Marauder Mystery Series, after bestselling Midnight Marauders.
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Pamela Pollock’s Perilous Adventure
$12.95Pamela Pollock is a small fish that lives in Nova Scotia. She gets caught in a current and swept away to a place she has never been, where the water is warm, and the fish don’t look familiar, and aren’t friendly.
She wants desperately to go home but doesn’t know how until she sees a boat that looks familiar. The Bluenose. Pamela is certain if she stays close to the Bluenose she will find her way home.
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Canadian Maple Syrup
Artist: Marijke Simons$9.95Based on the real-life story of the Allaway family of Tantallon, Nova Scotia. Brian and Simmone Allaway started their backyard project with children Cara and Brian William in the 1980s, and as the popularity of their maple syrup grew, so did their small family business. Acadian Maple Products Ltd. has since developed into a large processing and retail facility with a world- wide distribution network. It employs twenty people and is still fully owned and operated by the Allaway family.
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Jigs and Reels A cruise in Maritime waters
Artist: Marijke Simons$9.95Silas and his cousin Rose are on an adventure in search of whales and mermaids as they go with their grandparents on a cruise around Nova Scotia. The sea voyage begins in Shediac, New Brunswick, continues to Prince Edward Island, explores the Cape Breton coastline, before sailing along the Nova Scotia shores to the Bay of Fundy. Along the way encountering an abundance of marine life above and below the water.
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Le retour du Capitaine Baboune
Artist: Réjean RoyPublisher: Bouton d'or Acadie$9.95Oh no! Captain Baboune is at it again! This time, at the helm of an infernal machine, capturing the winds and deregulating the climate.
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Adieu, Jacoby!
Artist: Camille Perron-CormierPublisher: Bouton d'or Acadie$10.95Beloved dog Jacoby, who’s helped numerous children deal with their anxiety and has helped them with their reading skills, is very sick. Seeing him in such pain, his owner Madame Ève decides to take him to the vet to put him own. As she learns to live without her dear companion, Madame Ève is comforted by the soothing memories of him. The children Jacoby helped miss him and decide to throw him a goodbye party. Slowly but surely, without ignoring the pain, or the sorrow, life goes on.
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La promesse du bout du monde
Artist: Stéphanie BourgeoisPublisher: Bouton d'or Acadie$14.95“He gets halfway up, screams and throws a stick towards the cougar, which hits it in the eye. The sound of his scream surprises the boy himself. He is full of a singular rage, of a refusal to die here, all alone. It’s the scream of a man who takes charge of his destiny. And the animal can smell it.”
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Ouaf? Ouaf? Cot! Cot!
Artist: Sarah DeligniesPublisher: Bouton d'or Acadie$11.95A little moment in the life of Henriette, Crème Brulée, Caro and Claude.
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Le chien d’or de Québec Une aventure des Trois Mousquetaires
Artist: Paul RouxPublisher: Bouton d'or Acadie$19.95Alexis Nadeau, director of the exhibits at the Civilisations museum in Montreal, has been receiving threats signed: Québec Golden Dog. The three musketeers Gabriel, Ania and Mamadou immediately start to investigate. Gabriel even spots a real golden dog walking around the streets of Quebec! Would it be the same legendary golden dog that stands on the Porte St-Jean at the entrance of the old Quebec. Does the bizarre professor, Bazil Bizaroff, have anything to do with it? And how do you protect yourself against a ferocious dog whose fur is lined with flames?
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(M)other
Publisher: Bouton d'or Acadie$13.95No, my son doesn’t have a father!
From the delivery room to the classroom, a woman whose motherhood is questioned explains: her son doesn’t have a father, but he’s got two moms. She is the other mother. A (m)other, but there was only room for one on the birth certificate. In the minds of some adults and kids, however, a father figure must be found. Adapted from a 2018 CBC Poetry Prize shortlisted poem, this book tells, with tenderness and accuracy, the difficulties that homoparental families face in being accepted for who they are: loving families.
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Luna n’aime pas
Artist: Nathasha PilottePublisher: Bouton d'or Acadie$8.95Unlike his brother Zim, Luna is a red-haired, hot-tempered cat. While his feline furry friend scurries and climbs around the house, Luna grrrr’s and growls.
With their piercing eyes, pudgy bellies, and pillows on their feet, even the best of us can’t resist to cats! But if they make us laugh, cats aren’t always in a good mood…
Will Luna’s human and brother cheer him up?
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Un petit bonheur tout rond
Artist: Magali BenPublisher: Bouton d'or Acadie$13.95Love is growing, and baby too! Inside mommy’s tummy, baby wiggles legs, fists and toes.
Mom and Dad count the stars, baby jumps in the belly.
Patiently, Mom feels the kicks and Dad dreams and draws. Weeks go by, the belly grows high, and the parents don’t know what else to count to keep on waiting.
A poetic escape into the adventure of being born.
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Un géant dans la tête
Publisher: Bouton d'or Acadie$19.95Matis is 16 year old, and he’s a haemophiliac. Two years ago, he lost his mom in a car accident and his father lost his joy. But Matis is resilient, and he’ll prove that he’s got courage for the two of them.
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Cher père noël, où est mon banjo?
Artist: Murray BainPublisher: Bouton d'or Acadie$10.95The celebrated holiday song from multi-talented and multiple-award-winning Halifax-based roots musician David Myles is now available as a bright and fun children’s picture book, and with a French translation by none other than the great Marie-Jo Thério. Young David writes frantic letters to Santa every year, requesting a banjo, but to no avail: “How does he miss / the one thing on my list / in the letter that I sent to him?” Follow the ups and downs of the holiday season with David, his furry friends, and his family, as he pines for his most-wished-for holiday gift.
Featuring illustrations from the animation studio that created the song’s well-loved music video, a special holiday message from David Myles, and original sheet music for those who wish to play along, Santa Never Brings Me A Banjo is sure to inspire many a holiday singalong.
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La cabane
Artist: Christian QuesnelPublisher: Bouton d'or Acadie$10.95Alphonse built a splendid fishing hut and now he’s wait for a catch… But nothing’s coming, except spring, and now his beautiful hut is floating away with him inside. Along the melting ice, the unlucky fisherman, who’s got a big heart, will give away pieces of his hut, bits by bits, to those less fortunate than he. Alphonse will still come out of this a champion fisherman!
