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Snowy Owls: Whoo Are They ?
Artist: Jennifer BohmanPublisher: Mountain Press Publishing$12.00Written for readers ages 8 and up, Snowy Owls: Whoo Are They? reveals how this bird of prey survives?and thrives?in the harsh landscape of the Arctic tundra. With clear language and beautiful illustrations, the book travels alongside the Snowy Owl as it hunts, finds a mate, raises a family, and faces the challenges of an uncertain future.
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Nature’s Yucky ! Gross Stuff that Helps Nature Work Gross Stuff that Helps Nature Work
Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing$10.00Nature’s Yucky uses kids’ natural fascination with the stinky, the gross, and the icky to help them learn more about wild animals and why critters behave as they do.
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You Can Be a Nature Detective
Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing$14.00This wonderful book explains how children and adults alike can have fun using nature’s clues to figure out such conundrums as which bird built what nest, what butterfly or moth a caterpillar will turn into, and which animal made what tracks.
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Fiddleheads to Fir Trees : Leaves in all Seasons
Artist: Laurie CaplePublisher: Mountain Press Publishing$12.00Children will be delighted by the fourteen diverse North American plants depicted in Fiddleheads to Fir Trees, from weeping willow and cedar to cattail and poison ivy. The plants are organized by season, starting with the tender fiddleheads of a fern in early spring and ending with the snow-dusted needles of the balsam fir.
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Awesome Osprey: Fishing Birds of the World
Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing$12.00In this scientific yet light-hearted book, readers will become acquainted with ospreys and their life cycle, from courtship, nesting, and raising young to their yearly migrations. Lovely illustrations bring these birds and their aquatic world to life.
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Sweet Dreams, Wild Animals ! A Story of Sleep
Artist: Laurie CaplePublisher: Mountain Press Publishing$12.00Fourteen animals, including the cuddly koala, the hairy anteater, and the wise owl, are featured in this lyrical bedtime story about the unusual ways that animals sleep. Natural history notes explain how each animal sleeps, from the magnificent frigatebird, which naps while flying hundreds of feet above the sea, to the walrus, which sleeps with its tusks anchored in floating ice.
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Camas & Sage A Story of Bison Life on the Prairie
Artist: Christina WaldPublisher: Mountain Press Publishing$12.00In Camas and Sage: A Story of Bison Life on the Prairie, kids are invited to explore and discover the northern plains in a truly unique way: through the eyes and ears of a bison calf.
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Follow the Goose Butt, Camelia Airheart !
Artist: Odette BarrPublisher: Chocolate River Publishing$10.95Poor Camelia Airheart. She is easily distracted and her GPS — Goose Positioning System — is faulty. When she gets separated from her flock, she gets lost and starts on a journey that will take her all over New Brunswick. Will she ever find her way home to her flock? A beautifully illustrated early chapter book for children.
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Maya and Mitaine:From Saint John to Paris
Publisher: Chocolate River Publishing$11.95A trip to Paris to attend a fashion show! Maya is worried but looking forward to it. Will her elderly cat, Mitain, still be alive when Maya returns from Paris’ And will she miss seeing her father who is working on the Queen Mary II’ This story of travel, haute couture, and the loss of a beloved pet is a translation of Maya et Mitain published by Bouton d’ors Acadie.
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Take off to Tantramar
Artist: Odette BarrPublisher: Chocolate River Publishing$14.95Camelia Airheart is back. She’s on an adventure to the Tantramar Wetlands, in southeast New Brunswick. She is looking for “leg bling”, just like the kind her Aunt Tilly has. This picture book is a prequel to Follow the Goose Butt, Camelia Airheart! and tells the story of how Camelia came to acquire her very own leg band. It is bound to delight Camelia fans, both young and old.
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Deer Island Mystery
Publisher: Chocolate River Publishing$11.95Jamie’s heritage project on Captain Nehemiah Butler quickly turns into a search for buried treasure, and he and his friends have to draw on their deductive, orientation, and science skills to find it. Tension mounts when an important clue goes missing at school. Will someone else beat them to the treasure? This mystery read for ages 9-12 is set on New Brunswick’s Deer Island.
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Henrietta’s Nightlight
Publisher: Chocolate River Publishing$12.95Henrietta is staying overnight at her grandparents? cottage for the first time. She would love to see the great blue heron that visits in the morning, but there?s no electricity or running water at the cottage, and the night noises are scary. After a grownup day exploring nature with her grandparents, will she be able to make it through the night?
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Follow the Goose Butt to Nova Scotia
Artist: Odette BarrPublisher: Chocolate River Publishing$10.95Camelia Airheart, the lovable Canada goose, is back! In this humorous early chapter book, she follows her Aunt Tillie’s goose butt to Nova Scotia where she meets interesting characters like Spike, the cuddly porcupine, Cindy Crowsby, the famous hockey player and Willow, the bookworm donkey. Will she find her way after she becomes stranded on a beach, lost in a pea-soup fog, and alone and afraid on the Bluenose?
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Under the Floorboard
Publisher: Chocolate River Publishing$12.9515-year-old Aileen never feels good enough to please her mother. When she pries up the floorboard at her aunt’s house, she sheds a light on the dark secret she worked so hard to forget. Why does no one ever talk about her baby sister Claire and what happened to her?
Then her mother announces she’s pregnant and starts acting strange. After the baby is born, her mother descends into a depression, and Aileen has to cope with the effect this has on both her and her family. Life isn’t easy when your parent has a mental health issue. Especially when no one talks to you about it. Honesty is tough. Is it possible her mother has secrets of her own and is Aileen ready for the truth? Miscommunications abound, but underneath there is love—even if it is hard to feel it sometimes.
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Peggy of the Cove: Ransomed Book 3
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$15.00Author, artist, and storyteller Ivan Fraser brings to life the charming character, Peggy of the Cove, who some claim the famous fishing village of Peggy’s Cove was named after. Ivan’s love of the ocean, this rugged coastline and quaint village inspired him to take you on a heartwarming adventure that will make you fall in love with Peggy, the Cove and the people of Nova Scotia.
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Stormy Passage
Publisher: Chocolate River Publishing$9.95Young Nate is enjoying his newfound freedom from school when he gets a job working on the steamship New York. But the work is hard, and the ship gets caught in the Saxby Gale of 1869. Will they ever make it to safety? Based on a real incident, this adventure story should appeal to ages 9-12 even though it is written at a grade 2-3 reading level.
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Finding Avalon
Publisher: Chocolate River Publishing$12.95Avalon Monday doesn’t mind telling schoolmates that her mother ran off to California to live with a guy she met on the internet. After all, that’s way less embarrassing than the truth.
One fresh start and three years later Avalon discovers there are things you can never truly leave behind. When the past collides with the present it exposes her secret and threatens to leave her new life in ruins.
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Disaster at the Highland Games
Artist: Nathasha PilottePublisher: Chocolate River Publishing$15.95Kate doesn’t think she needs to practice her Highland dancing to get ready for the Highland Games. Practicing at home isn’t as much fun as dancing in class. She’s good enough already, and everything will be fine. Or will it?
This high-energy picture book by author and Highland dance teacher Riel Nason showcases Highland dancing and the Highland Games culture and is brought to life by the whimsical illustrations of Nathasha Pilotte.
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A Calf for Olive
Publisher: Chocolate River Publishing$10.95Olive is devastated when she overhears a kid at school making fun of her for wanting to raise a calf for the 4-H calf competition. They think she can’t possibly do it because she has cerebral palsy. But, with the love and support from her family and friends, Olive develops a strong bond with a Jersey calf and draws on her problem-solving skills to get her calf ready for the fall competition.
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Natalie’s Glasses
Publisher: MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.$19.95To tell you the truth, and this is no word of a lie, the story of Natalie’s Glasses is about learning to see. But then again isn’t everything? Natalie Whitman is nine years-old, in grade four, and attends Lunenburg Academy. Natalie’s dad and granddad went to the Lunenburg Academy; even her granddad’s dad and his granddad went there.The Lunenburg Academy is the most beautiful school in the most beautiful town in the whole world. When you tell people the Lunenburg Academy is a school, sometimes they don’t believe you. Children aren’t supposed to go to a school this beautiful. Sometimes, though, Natalie doesn’t notice or think of just how beautiful it really is, that is until somebody wants to take it away from her.I don’t think I told you, but Natalie wears glasses. What is important to mention is that she loses her glasses and the funny thing is only then could she see. This is an epic children’s journey . . . a journey of discovery and belief in yourself. The spirit of Natalie Whitman triumphs in this battle with adults who just can’t see.
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Princess Grace and the Jellyfish
Publisher: MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.$9.95Anybody familiar with the annual arrival of jellyfish on the beaches of the East Coast knows of the fear it can strike in young children. In this heartwarming story – written from a grandmother’s (Moseley) perspective – we watch as young Grace transforms into Princess Grace, becoming friends with the pink jellyfish as she realizes they do not sting parts of the body without any hair, like the palm of your hand. Instead of something to be feared, the pink jellyfish are beautiful creatures to be admired for their shape and colour.
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Where the Rivers Meet
Publisher: MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.$19.95Strange, even deadly, encounters happen when young Tommy Caffrey is left alone with the Mi’kmaq tomahawk he found. Set in a mythical northern Cape Breton town, Where the Rivers Meet is a coming-of-age story told against the backdrop of religious and racial conflict that occurs when gold is discovered on Indian land.
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Row Bot
Publisher: MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.$14.95It is not every day you meet a rowboat-rowing Row Bot (say that three times fast), but here he is. The word play is simply magnificent and the book is pure fun. You’ll find yourself reading it aloud over and over and over again. Written for kids 4-6 years-old, this book is original in every sense of the word. If your child might like to meet a genial Row Bot, come on along for the ride.
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Saskatchewan A to Z
Publisher: MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.$16.95Written 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!
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I Met an Elk in Edson Once
Artist: Wes TyrellPublisher: MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.$17.95Join an elk in undies named Rusty, my mom and me in a search for Uncle Todd. From Jasper, Fort Macleod and the hoodoos to the Calgary Stampede, Cowboy Trail and Head-Smashed-In-Buffalo Jump, come along on the best road trip around Alberta ever! Promise!
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The Little Tree by the Sea
Artist: Belle DeMontPublisher: MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.$17.95On December 6, 1917, two ships collided in wartime Halifax Harbour, creating what became the largest man-made explosion of its time. More than 2000 people died (500 of those children) and 9,000 were injured. A single little tree whispered from its branches the word “Help” that was carried by the wind to the people of Boston. Within 48 hours Boston and Massachusetts organized trains to carry 33 doctors and 79 nurses. To repay the City of Boston for its generosity, the little tree (which now had become huge and majestic tree) was given to the city of Boston as a way to say thank you, a tradition that continues to this day.
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Anne of Green Gables
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$19.95The sweetest creation of childlife yet written” – Mark Twain
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Animal Signatures
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$9.95Animal Signatures is a handy field guide that teaches one how to recognize and interpret animal signs—the tracks, droppings, and nibbled twigs that animals leave behind.
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Anne of Green Gables
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$10.95“The sweetest creation of childlike yet written” – Mark TwainSince it was first published on 1908, Anne of Green Gables has been treasured by millions of readers around the world. Anne Shirley, an orphan, arrives at Green Gables by mistake; the Cuthberts wanted a boy. But for Anne, Green gables is a dream come true. Thanks to her endearing nature, she wins the hears of the Cuthberts, finds “kindred spirits” and “a bosom friend,” and takes a staid island community on a merry ride of adventure and surprise.In this Classic Edition, Nimbus presents Anne of Green Gables as it originally appeared–complete, easy to read, and as enduring as the heartwarming story of Anne herself.Lucy Maude Montgomery was born in the charming village of New London, PEI, in 1874. She grew up in nearby Cavendish, surrounded by rolling farmlands and the sparkling waters of the ocean. Anne of Green Gables is based on her own childhood experiences.
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Remembering Honey
Artist: Jane GallinaughPublisher: Nimbus Publishing$7.95When pets die, families grieve as if those pets were human. This story explores that grief and helps families cope with the loss.
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Ahmed and the Nest of Sand
Artist: Jeffrey DommPublisher: Nimbus Publishing$10.95When Ahmed moves to Nova Scotia from his native Kuwait, he wants a pet. Instead he gets to help save an endangered bird, the piping plover.
