Ruby is a boisterous young girl that can’t understand why her cat Mattoo is so shy about playing with her, but when she and her friend Clemente take a calmer approach to playing, they find that Mattoo is happy to join in.
Mattoo, Let’s Play!
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Edgar Potato
If you knew you were to read a story of a Prince Edward Island potato that had grown too big, you would be able to predict the rest: his peer potatoes would give him a hard time, right? Right. But in the end he would win out, right? Right again, in fact the prize for the Potato Beauty Contest. There is not too much to be put in the middle of such predictability, but Don Oickle has made a good effort. Because Edgar Potato is so near the surface, he gets to see and experience much of the lovely Prince Edward Island scenery. This makes up in part for the insults he receives from his smaller neighbour potatoes. He will not, they jeer, be able to become a wonderful baked or French fried or instant mashed potato. His fate will be to be made into pig food. After winning his beauty prize, Edgar’s last comment is “Maybe being bigger than all the others isn’t so bad after all!
A Salmon For Simon
Simon, who wants to catch a salmon, finally realizes his wish; but the creature is in need of help and, Simon thinks, too beautiful to die.
Courage In The Storm
She urged the horse on with a jerk at the reins. Judy went on a few steps and stopped again. The object stretched right across her path. It was close and clear now, and Greta gasped. Her very heart seemed to stop beating. For there, like a ghost risen out of the ice, lay a ship. A ship, of all things! A big schooner with three tall masts, all crusted with snow. What was it doing here? Slowly her mind filled with awful suspicion. She tried to put it aside, but it came back. At last she faced the truth.
The little mare had been lost all this time. Instead of crossing the ice, they had been wandering down the river, towards the open sea.
A Halifax Abc
Paintings of the capital of Nova Scotia depict such aspects of that city as anchor, boat, children–and on through the alphabet.
Princesses Are Not Perfect
Three princesses, each with a particular skill, decide they are bored with what they do and swap jobs.
Where Poppies Grow: A World War I Companion
Finalist for the Silver Birch AwardWinner of the 2002 Information Book Award When World War I began in 1914, no one knew that millions of young people would die in the agonizing years ahead. No one imagined the effect it would have on family life, or that whole villages would disappear, or thatentire nations would be changed forever. They believed their sons and daughters, mothersand fathers would be home by Christmas. They were tragically mistaken. With photos, memorabilia, and anecdotes, Linda Granfield brings us face-to-face withpeople from all walks of life who risked everything for their country. These painstakingly-gathered bits and pieces are remnants of conflict on a scale never before witnessed. Hastily-penned letters, notes written in code, and prayers for deliverance form an eloquent portrait of humanity, and a startling comment on the devastation of war.
Frozen Land
“Describes the traditional ways of life of an Inuit family living in the Canadian Northwest Territories and some of the changes they have had to face”–Provided by publisher.
The West Is Calling
Haiku and illustrations evoke 150 years of British Columbia history, from pre-contact to the present day.
Me and You
Two friends discuss how different they are from each other, and each decide, after wishing they were like the other, that it’s best to accept one’s own individuality.