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Illustrations and evocative text show how imagination can reveal the extraordinary in the everyday.
During the fire season in Australia, a wombat allows its underground shelter to become a place of refuge for other vulnerable animals in need. Discusses Australia's devastating 2019-2020 fire season, in which many animals lost their lives or their habitats.
Presents a night when imagination takes over and gravity does not work quite as expected.
Straight-laced fifth grader Emily's world is turned upside down when new neighbor and free spirit Rani moves in with her dog Otto.
"Do you want to know what dogs are thinking? What they're feeling? Now you finally can. The answers will surprise and delight young readers as scientist and dog-owner Alexandra Horowitz explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the h...
Did you know that a turtle named Jonathan is the oldest living animal on Earth? (He's almost two hundred!) How about that the largest sea turtles can dive more than three thousand feet below the water's surface? Or that turtles' shells have a spine in them, which makes turtles ve...
This adaptation of the old nursery poem "Over in the Meadow" introduces neighborhood animals and their young and the numbers one through ten.
A young woman losing her vision rides the subway with her dog in search of emotional healing.
A fascinating prehistoric creature, the flightless terror bird in ancient South America was a formidable hunter. Thomson's succinct and age-appropriate text explains how terror birds lived, hunted, and how they might have died out. The scientifically accurate illustrations will a...
"This environment/conservation-themed early reader series includes an introduction by animal advocate Chelsea Clinton, black-and-white photographs, a list of fun facts about the featured animal of each book, and things that kids can do right now to help save the featured animal f...
"A like vision is a lavish celebration of the legacy of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, Canada's canonical landscape painters. The Group's depiction of the rugged beauty of the Canadian landscape - from the coastal mountains of British Columbia to the north shore of Lake Supe...
Joe Slattermill has a knack for dice throwing and figures that he can take on any opponent. But can he win when the stakes are raised and it's his life he's gambling for?
Against the backdrop of post-World War II Australia, Sarah Adams is a nurse who becomes involved in the affairs of the wealthy Bligh family. It is dealing with themes such as anti-Semitism, sexuality, and social class.
After the death of his wife, newspaper columnist George Turner decided to move his family from Sydney to the small New Zealand seaside town of Weld. He wanted his kids, Shay and Arlo, to have a fresh start, but all did not go according to plan. In Season Two George must reunite h...
Married for 50 years, Grant and Fiona lead a comfortable life full of tenderness and humour. But the serenity is interrupted by Fiona's increasingly evident memory loss. As Fiona's lapses become more obvious and dramatic, it is no longer possible for either of them to ignore th...
Thomson's death in 1917 triggered the formation of the Group of Seven and the ascendancy of landscape painting as a national preoccupation. This is the first book to focus on Thomson's small-scale sketches and brings together a variety of voices to interpret his legacy with fresh...