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Presents an illustrated version of the traditional counting rhyme. On board pages.

One child’s fantasy comes to life as Benny shrinks down so that no one can find him, as he swims with his pet fish, uses the house plants as a jungle gym, and takes a ride in his toy car.

The classmates of Nicholas become his friends after his friend Karen’s parents gather other parents and learn some important facts about AIDS.

Five children dress in different colorful costumes emphasizing their hair, mouth, ears, shoulders, stomachs, eyes hands, knees, feet, and toes.

Ten year old Rachel boards a ship that will take her from slavery in America to Nova Scotia but her col and barren new home is not what she imagined.

“Rachel’s family finally gets to live in a real house, and she begins to read and write too! Will all these wonderful accomplishments last?” Cf. Our choice, 2003.

In the wake of the Halifax Explosion of 1917, Penny’s father must make a decision that will alter all their lives. Faced with the difficulty of finding housing for his three motherless daughters, and worried by the constant threat of disease, Papa reluctantly sends Emily and Maggie to his sister’s home in Montreal. Penny, however,…

Meet Emily Murdoch, who lives with her parents and her two sisters in Victoria, B.C., in 1896. On the other side of Victoria’s James Bay Bridge is Chinatown, a world as different from Emily’s as can be. Thousands of Chinese immigrants looking for a better life in Canada call it home, including Hing, Emily’s family’s…

Nova Scotia, 1945: With reports that the war is coming to an end, the Publicovers eagerly await the return of Izzie and Joey’s father. But peace will also mean other, less welcome changes for Izzie’s best friends, Roberta and Patricia. Patricia fears having to return to her uncaring mother in England, never to see her…