Posts Tagged ‘canadian’

Down the Drain

Robert Munsch’s hilarious take on bathtime is a long overdue tribute to the kids who dread taking them–and the poor parents who dread giving them! Adam is covered in dirt. His hands are dirty. His face is dirty. And his feet are dirty. “Adam, you need a bath!” his father yells. But Adam doesn’t like…

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More Pies!

This favourite Munsch title gets a brand-new look Samuel has woken up hungry and it seems that nothing can satisfy him. Luckily, there’s a pie-eating contest in the park, where Samuel eats not one, not two, but six pies! To everyone’s surprise, he wins the contest without getting sick. But what will happen when he…

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Mortimer

After attempts by his mother, his father, his brothers and sisters, and even two policemen, Mortimer finally goes to sleep.

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Purple Green and Yellow

When Brigid asks for colored markers, she assures her mother that she will use them responsibly, but one day the temptation becomes too great.

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Camp X Shell Shocked

Jack and George have assumed new identities and are back at work as special operatives, keeping an eye out for suspicious activity at an ammunitions plant. They don’t have to wait long before they uncover a plot by German spies to blow up the plant and everyone in it It’s up to the quickthinking boys…

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Dear Canada: These are My Words

“Twelve-year-old Violet Pesheens is taken away to Residential School in 1966. The diary recounts her experiences of travelling there, the first day, and first months, focusing on the everyday life she experiences–the school routine, battles with Cree girls, being quarantined over Christmas, getting home at Easter and reuniting with her family. When the time comes…

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The Dead Kid Detective Agency

When outcast October Schwartz moves to Sticksville, she teams up with five dead teenagers to solve the mystery of a teacher’s murder.

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The Beautiful Mystery

When the choir director of a monastery in Quâebec is murdered, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sãuretâe du Quâebec are challenged to find the killer in a cloistered community that has taken a vow of silence.

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