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Using over 2 dozen excerpts from Beethoven's works, tells the story of a boy who lives downstairs from Beethoven.

K-Gr 4 Does anyone ever think about how dogs feel about fetching all those balls humans throw? Nichol does in her poem, 'Lazy Dog': 'My grievance is so very small/I'm tempted to forget it./But when it's you who threw the ball/Why must I go and get it?' This appealing collection o...

At first, ten-year-old Christoph resents the eccentric boarder who enters his home, but slowly he comes to understand the torment of Ludwig van Beethoven's deafness, and appreciate his genius and the beauty of his music.

After the dramatic send-off of Bach's music into space aboard Voyager II, Mr. Bach unexpectedly arrives at the house of Elizabeth, a present-day child, who is awkwardly practicing his famous Minuet in G. Along with three of Bach's choir boys, Elizabeth learns about his life.

Safe and Sound are two small dogs with big ideas: they want to see the world. But the world is not at all what they expect.

In a big city there is a little garden, hidden away from the street behind a little house built many years ago. The garden is one of many gardens in the city, planted in a place that used to be a forest. It has a history and many stories to share.

Retells the adventures of an eccentric Spanish country gentleman and his companion who set out as a knight and squire of old to right wrongs and punish evil.

A young girl describes the summer of 1912 when her little sister gets very sick and when unusual creatures that look like small flying dogs come from the Don River to her home in Toronto.