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When Buster Bear comes to live in the Green Forest, the amiable bully stirs up quite a commotion, for bears haven't lived in the forest for years.

Grandfather Frog is very old and very wise, and he knows all about the days when the world was young. When he is feeling just right, he dearly loves to tell about those long-ago days.

It is 1900, and 14-year-old Bertie McCross is a newspaper boy in downtown Toronto.

Commended for the 2009 Best Books for Kids & Teens Canadian World War II pilot Charley Fox, now in his late eighties, has had a thrilling life, especially on the day in July 1944 in France whe

In 1812, a 67-year-old black United Empire Loyalist named Richard Pierpoint helped raise "a corps of Coloured Men to stand and fight together" against the Americans who were threatening t

The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk is another in the long list children's books by the conservationist, Thornton W. Burgess.

The Adventures of Paddy Beaver is another in the long list of children's books by the conservationist, Thornton W. Burgess.

The Adventures of Reddy Fox is another in the series of children's stories by conservationist Thornton W. Burgess.

When Farmer Brown's boy starts setting traps for the woodland critters of Laughing Brook and Smiling Pool, Grandfather Frog has a scheme to save the animals.

The residents of Green Forest are puzzled by strange sounds, such as Sticky-toes the Tree Toad hearing his own voice coming from another tree, or Sammy Jay keeping everyone awake by calling "T