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Disturbed by a deafening snore, Jack wakes up the family and animals one by one in search of the noisy culprit.

This heartwarming picture book tells the true story of João Pereira de Souza, who found a Magellanic penguin covered in oil and starving near his home on an island off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. João spent a week cleaning the creature's tarred feathers and feeding him a daily...

"2 is a little. 0 is nothing. 1 is not enough. Right? But think again. One sun is a lot. One tree is a lot. One dog is a lot̥ Sometimes two is too much, and sometimes zero is just right. One Is a Lot is a unique and thoughtful picture book that introduces readers to a different w...

Doors in the Air is the story of a boy who is fascinated by doors. He marvels at how stepping through a doorway can take him from one world to another. He is especially enthralled by the doors of his imagination, which he refers to as "doors in the air." He delights in discoverin...

When an ice storm snaps a small girl's favorite branch from the tree in her yard, she won't let it be hauled away. To her, it wasn't just any branch, "It was my castle, my spy base, my ship ... " Her neighbor Mr. Frank agrees. He says the branch has "potential," and the two get t...

Hermann coudn't stop eating! Before long, he was eating entire countries. Now, only Sara can save the world.

A circus clown's search for his partner leads him to the top of an acrobatic pyramid, found by unfolding the book's final page.

"Max," said the farmer to his dog one day, "can you catch a thief?" Of course! He can catch anything! And Max eagerly sets off on a quest to find the culprit who has been stealing the farmer's fruits and vegetables. Within moments, the dog is confident he has spotted the thief --...

The lives of two dogs change after a new animal, a baby, comes to their house.

Corey knows that windy weather is perfect for flying the kite which he made all by himself.

A fantastic and colorful journey allows young readers to join a magical changing hippo, who transforms into a boot, a race car, a ship, and a hot dog, in this humorous and whimsical book with vivid and amusing illustrations.

A playful dog continually hides things in the closet, and his family makes him them return every time--except for one.

Rather than return to the circus, an elephant attempts to hide himself using a variety of disguises, such as butterfly and dinosaur costumes, with hilarious results for him and the boy he has found, until they decide the best place for him is Africa.

""Imagine a city draped in a blanket of green ... Is this the city you know?" This beautiful book of narrative non-fiction looks at the urban forest, starting with a bird's-eye view of the tree canopy, then swooping down to street level, digging deep into the ground, then moving ...

Un récit enveloppant et troublant qui met en lumière avec candeur toute la souffrance causée par l'abandon et l'espoir infini d'un monde meilleur. C'est une histoire d'amitié et de reconstruction, une rencontre aussi improbable que touchante entre une bande de chiens abandonn...

"Given that Canada has the longest coastline in the world and its motto is "From Sea unto Sea," it is not surprising that virtually every Canadian writer has been inspired to write about some aspect of the sea at some point in their work. As this book shows, those watery passages...

Dumpling, a lonely dog with no sense of smell, moves with his family to the country and makes a new friend who takes some getting used to.