Issue: March 2007

Good To Be Small

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

When little Mouse offers to find a lost lamb, the other sheep dismiss her. Sometimes the smallest member of the barnyard can get the biggest results, and Mouse is about to prove it.

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Priscilla And Rosy

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

A tempting boat trip tests an alley-rat’s loyalty to her best friend.

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Singing The Dark

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

As dusk falls, mother and child perform a bedtime ritual by singing a welcoming song to the night.

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Secrets In The Fire

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

As a victim of a landmine and a child of war-torn Mozambique, Sophia turns to a village elder for advice and soon finds ways to cope with her difficult circumstances in order to grow into a person with great strength and determination.

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City At Night

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Celebrates the night worker in the big city, focusing mainly on Toronto, and the active night life that occurs there.

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The Treasures of Trinkamalee

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

With the background of The Arabian Nights, this book deals with themes of young men’s folly, greed, adventure, crime and punishment. An old man narrates how years earlier he and friends set out to see the world and to find riches to bring home.

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In Flanders Fields : The Story Of The Poem By John Mccrae

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Presents the context for the writing of the famous poem by the Canadian medical officer, John McCrae, who attended injured soldiers in Flanders during the First World War.

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Black And White Blanche

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Although everything in the Weatherspoon household is either black or white, daughter Blanche yearns for a pink dress, so her friends at Felicity’s flower stand try to help Blanche satisfy her quest for color, in this story set in Victorian London.

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Click!

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

A polar bear cub and a young photographer wander away from the safety of their mothers and have parallel adventures, eventually meeting face to face.

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Crabbe

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

One night, just before final exams, 18-year-old Franklin Crabbe–smart, rich yet unhappy and a semi-alcoholic–packs his gear and drives away into the woods to disappear completely.

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