Picture books

  • Singing Sisters: A Story of Humility

    Creator

    Vermette, Katherena

    Abstract

    Ma'iingan knows she is a very good singer. Conflict erupts when her little sister wants to sing just like her. The Seven Teaching of the Anishinaabe -- love, wisdom, humility, courage, respect, honesty, and truth -- are revealed in these seven stories for children. Set in an urban landscape with Indigenous children as the central characters, these stories about home and family will look familiar to all young readers.

    Publisher (Source)

    Winnipeg

    HighWater Press

    Not specified
  • Misaabe's Stories: A Story of Honesty

    Creator

    Vermette, Katherena

    Abstract

    Misaabe tells great stories -- about trolls, and x-ray glasses, and secret agents, and his super-exciting life. But is real life so bad? The Seven Teaching of the Anishinaabe -- love, wisdom, humility, courage, respect, honesty, and truth -- are revealed in these seven stories for children. Set in an urban landscape with Indigenous children as the central characters, these stories about home and family will look familiar to all young readers.

    Publisher (Source)

    Winnipeg

    HighWater Press

    Not specified
  • Kode's Quest(ion): A Story of Respect

    Creator

    Vermette, Katherena

    Abstract

    Kode knows many things, but she doesn�t know one thing: What does respect mean? Who will help her figure out the answer? The Seven Teaching of the Anishinaabe -- love, wisdom, humility, courage, respect, honesty, and truth -- are revealed in these seven stories for children. Set in an urban landscape with Indigenous children as the central characters, these stories about home and family will look familiar to all young readers.

    Publisher (Source)

    Winnipeg

    HighWater Press

    Not specified
  • Amik Loves School: A Story of Wisdom

    Creator

    Vermette, Katherena

    Abstract

    Amik tells Moshoom about his wonderful school. Then his grandfather tells him about the residential school he went to, so different from Amik's school, so Amik has an idea... The Seven Teaching of the Anishinaabe -- love, wisdom, humility, courage, respect, honesty, and truth -- are revealed in these seven stories for children. Set in an urban landscape with Indigenous children as the central characters, these stories about home and family will look familiar to all young readers.

    Publisher (Source)

    Winnipeg

    Portage & Main Press

    Not specified
  • A Salmon for Simon

    Creator

    Waterton, Betty

    Blades, Ann

    Greene, Graham

    Abstract

    This enhanced e-book, in celebration of Groundwood's 35th anniversary, includes a read-aloud feature of the story narrated by Graham Greene.Simon has always longed to catch a salmon. But when his luck suddenly changes and an eagle accidentally drops one into a tidal pool, Simon is torn between sympathy for the fish and the desire to catch something of his own.All summer long, Simon, a young First Nations boy, has been desperate to catch a salmon. He goes fishing every day, but has no luck.

    Publisher (Source)

    [S.l.]

    Groundwood Books Ltd

    Not specified
  • Once Upon a Northern Night

    Creator

    Pendziwol, Jean E.

    Arsenault, Isabelle

    Abstract

    In this exquisite lullaby, the beauty and wonder of a northern winter night unfold, with images of a soft snowfall, the wild animals that appear in the garden, the twinkling stars, the gentle rhythm of the northern lights and the etchings of frost on the window pane. As the young child sleeps, wrapped in a downy blanket, a snowflake falls, and then another and another. The poem describes the forest of snow-covered pines, where a deer and fawn nibble a frozen apple, and a great gray owl swoops down with its feathers trailing through the snow.

    Publisher (Source)

    [S.l.]

    Groundwood Books Ltd

    Not specified
  • Loon

    Creator

    Vande Griek, Susan

    Reczuch, Karen

    Abstract

    Winner of the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Picture Book Award, the TD Norma Fleck Award, the Vancouver Children's Literature Roundtable Information Book Award, and a USBBY Outstanding International Books Honor Book. Nominated for an OLA Silver Birch Express Tree Award and a Midwest Booksellers Choice Award. The e-book edition of this award-winning non-fiction picture book includes an audio clip of loon calls, drawing readers in to this avian family's world. The haunting call of a loon is quintessential summertime for many people.

    Publisher (Source)

    [S.l.]

    Groundwood Books Ltd

    Not specified
  • Me and Mr. Mah

    Creator

    Spalding, Andrea

    Abstract

    When Ian's parents separate, he moves with his mother to the city, a thousand miles away from the prairie wheat farm he calls home. With no friends and a bleak moonscape of a backyard to play in, Ian has only an old shoe box of objects from his past life to keep him company. But after he peeks through the fence to the lush garden next door, Ian is inspired to start digging his own little plot. And when he meets Mr. Mah, the old man who owns the garden, Ian is surprised to learn they have a lot in common. Also displaced from the original home he misses, Mr.

    Audience
    Juvenile**
    Not specified
  • One-dog canoe

    Creator

    Casanova, Mary

    Abstract

    A girl and her dog set out in their canoe one morning, only to be insistently joined by a series of animals, large and small.

    Audience
    Primary
    Not specified
  • The Little Book of Big Fears

    Creator

    Arnaldo, Monica

    Abstract

    Whether it’s raccoons, the dark, math, or whatever lurks in the bathtub, everybody is afraid of something. Big or small, common or quirky, fears are normal — and maybe even a little less scary when brought to light (and made light of). This book introduces 16 fictional children, named in alphabetical order, along with something each fears. There’s Claire, who recoiled from legumes; Drew, who was scared of raccoons; Quinn, horrified by needles; and Will, unsettled by beetles. Darkly playful illustrations show each fear as magnified and real as a child would imagine it.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Owlkids Books Inc.

    Not specified