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Animal Hide and Seek
Publisher: Islandport Press$20.95Sometimes, you need to know what to look for in order to see an animal, even if it’s hiding in plain sight! In Animal Hide and Seek, author and artist Dahlov Ipcar first offers young readers portraits of woodland animals and then, on the companion page, sets the animal into its natural setting, camouflaged for the careful reader to find. Gentle prose describes the animals and their habits, from deer to rabbits, from squirrels to salamanders.
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Fog of Forgetting
Publisher: Islandport Press$20.95Move over, Narnia. The journey to Ayda has begun. Sneaking out for a quick boat ride on a summer day, five children find themselves engulfed in a curtain of dense, powerful fog that transports them from the rocky coast to the mysterious island of Ayda. Rescued by Seaborne, a machete-toting wayfarer of few words, the children suddenly find themselves at the center of a centuries-old battle between Dankar, the ruler of Exor, and three siblings that rule the other realms of Ayda. At stake are the four stones of power and the elusive Fifth Stone that binds them all.
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Mystery of the Eagle’s Nest
Publisher: Islandport Press$19.95Trouble has returned to Wilder Family Campground. When Cooper and Packrat find their geo-cache box full of illegal eagle parts, their lazy summer is over. Someone wants those valuable parts back. And if they can’t get the parts back, they’ll settle for holding one of the rare Pine Lake eaglets hostage instead. Cooper, Packrat, and Roy must elude two goons, tolerate an annoying teenager, keep tabs on a shady new camper, and stake out the eagle’s nest—all without getting grounded.
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Lake Where Loon Lives
Artist: Brooke CarltonPublisher: Islandport Press$19.95There’s a lake. A loon. Two chicks. Sounds peaceful, right? Guess again! The Lake Where Loon Lives starts quietly, but the cumulative story builds, one line at a time, to a wacky and wonderful and splashy crescendo, as the loons are joined by a playful fly, a slippery fish, and a curious boy on the dock.
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Mystery on Pine Lake
Artist: Carl DiRoccoPublisher: Islandport Press$18.95Cooper thought living at a campground would be cool. But trouble has come to the Wilder Family Campground and Pine Lake, where a family of loons is trying to build a nest. Someone is out to harm the loons. Is it the bully with a chip on his shoulder? The irritable camper with a shady past? Or the publicity-seeking reporter? It’s up to Cooper and new friend Packrat to figure out who, why, and how to stop the culprit before it’s too late.
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There are No Moose on this Island !
Publisher: Islandport Press$20.95Jake’s excited about going on a trip to an island, and he really, really, really wants to see a moose. But his dad insists: There are no moose on this island. Both Jake and a friendly moose would like to disagree! In playful rhymes, author Stephanie Calmenson brings the reader along with Jake and his dad, as they explore the mammals, birds, insects, and sea life on and around the island. With graceful illustrations by Jennifer Thermes, Jake (and the reader) start to see the moose, a little bit at a time, but Dad’s either got his nose in a book or has binoculars glued to his eyes. In the end, it’s Jake who shows his dad the value of putting aside the guidebook and ferry schedule to truly experience the beauty and magic of the outdoors.
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Nic and Nellie
Artist: Astrid SheckelsPublisher: Islandport Press$20.95Everyone gets homesick. And Nic is no different. She’s so excited about spending the entire summer on a small New England island wit her grandparents that she counts down the days through winter and spring. But when the grand adventure finally begins, she finds tears and loneliness instead of joy and freedom. Astrid Sheckels’s picture book Nic and Nellie is a gorgeously illustrated, heartwarming story of a girl and her beloved dog, Nellie, who slowly learn that new places really aren’t so scary, and that often friends can be found around every corner –even in old rowboats, tidal ponds, and stinky mudflats.
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Seashells Treasures From the Northeast Coast
Publisher: Islandport Press$12.95Let the treasure hunt begin! As any visitor to the beach knows, all sorts of treasures ca be found if you look. This beautifully illustrated pocket guide helps young beachcombers find and identify shells of animals commonly found in the Northeast from Maine’s rocky coast to the sandy shores of Cape Cod and Long Island.
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Iciest, Diciest, Scariest Sled Ride Ever !
Artist: Jennifer ThermesPublisher: Islandport Press$19.95On a cold, icy winter day when “the world was ice and we were skaters without skates,” seven children set out on a sledding adventure that soon soars to epic proportions. Lizzie and her friends convince Grampa Bud to let them use his custom-built runner sled. But first they have to get the long sled up the iciest, diciest, scariest hill ever! Storyteller Rebecca Rule infuses this story with her trademark wry sense of humor and wonderful sense of language, making it perfect for story time or one-on-one reading.
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One Horse Farm
Publisher: Islandport Press$19.95Dahlove Ipcar has written and illustrated more than thirty children’s and young adult books, starting with The Little Fisherman (by Mararet Wise Brown) in 1945 and including The Cat at Night, Hardscrabble Harvest, My Wonderful Christmas Tree, and Wild Animal Alphabet. Today, her vibrant and fanciful artwork is known worldwide, and her paintings are in the permanent collections of numerous renowned museums. New editions of her books continue to delight young readers in the 21st century.
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My Cat, Coon Cat
Artist: Jeannie BrettPublisher: Islandport Press$19.95Sandy Ferguson Fuller has lived her entire professional life in the world of children’s books. An accomplished writer and illustrator, her titles include Moon Loon, Out in the Night, and Hannah and the Perfect Picture Pony. She is also the co-author of the series, The BLUES Go Birding, the first of which, The BLUES Go Birding Across America, was released in 2010 by California-based Dawn Publications. Jeannie Brett has previously illustrated four children’s books: L is for Lobster, A Maine Alphabet; Fishing for Numbers, A Maine Numbers Book; M is for Mayflower, A Massachusetts Alphabet; and One if by Land, A Massachusetts Numbers Book. She has also written and illustrated Little Maine and illustrated Little New York, Little North Carolina and Little South Carolina, board books of state-themed early readers books. Brett has lived in Maine for more than three decades.
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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
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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.
