Books

Mr. Pusskins and Little Whiskers: Another Love Story

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Mr. Pusskins is back! And this time he’s got company. Mr. Pusskins was perfectly happy. That is, until Emily decided to bring home a surprise. A surprise named Little Whiskers. Mr. Pusskins does not want a kitten around. He does not want to play lovely games with that kitten. But, little does Mr. Pusskins know, [...]

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Troy Thompson’s Excellent Peotry Book

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Troy Thompson’s Excellent Peotry Book follows Troy Thompson, a Grade 6 student, in his efforts to understand the art of peotry (poetry). It’s a rocky but endlessly amusing road for Troy, as he stumbles over the Japanese form of ‘Haiku’, the ballad, the limerick and the sonnet. At the end of the year, Troy’s poetry [...]

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Grandma Calls Me Beautiful

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

A companion to the best-selling Mama, Do You Love Me? and Papa, Do You Love Me?, this beautiful book captures the unique bond that exists between grandmother and grandchild. A Hawaiian grandmother tells her granddaughter a favorite story about how much she loves her.

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Pay Dirt: The Search For Gold In British Columbia

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008
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The Golden City: Jerusalem’s 3,000 Years

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

This history of Jerusalem from King David’s time to the present day introduces religions and cultures that have formed Jerusalem’s heritage.

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Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Step back to an English village in 1255, where life plays out in dramatic vignettes illuminating twenty-two unforgettable characters.Maidens, monks, and millers’ sons — in these pages, readers will meet them all. There’s Hugo, the lord’s nephew, forced to prove his manhood by hunting a wild boar; sharp-tongued Nelly, who supports her family by selling [...]

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The Nights of the World

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

This book tells us how a child sleeps and what happens by day through five regions of the world.

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Silent Observer

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

“I was born, like my seven brothers and sisters, in a house atop a hill overlooking lovely Bras d’Or Lake”. So begins Christy MacKinnon’s story of life as a little girl in 19th-century Nova Scotia, Canada. Through wonderful images created with her own words and her watercolors, she tells of a simple, charming life on [...]

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Silent Music

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Like other children living in Baghdad, Ali loves soccer, music and dancing, but most of all, he loves the ancient art of calligraphy. When bombs begin to fall on his city, Ali turns to his pen, writing sweeping and gliding words to the silent music that drowns out the war all around him.

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Stories by Firelight

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

The magic of winter is captured perfectly in this collection of prose, lyrical poetry, and dramatic pictures. The festive spirit of the winter season is captured in stories dealing with cold weather, winter nights, and Christmas.

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