Product Description: Devon, England, 1633: Lizbet Warren’s parents are captured by Barbary pirates and carried off to the slave markets in Morocco. Desperate to help them, Lizbet sets out for London with Elinor from the Workhouse of Abandoned and Unwanted Children, the only other survivor of the raid...read more

Product Description: A mute Mayan girl held captive in a crate in the Guatemalan jungle, a big-city psychoanalyst with a rescue complex, and a journalist with a broken heart are the characters in Sheila Dalton’s second literary novel. Caitlin Shaughnessy, a Canadian journalist, discovers that Inez, a traumatized young Mayan woman originally from Guatemala, has killed Caitlin’s psychoanalyst partner, Dr...read more

Bubblemania is not only a good counting book, It's the best one I've seen in a while. -- Quill & Quire

Product Description: Winner of the Canadian Children’s Book Centre Choice: Best Books for Kids & Teens Seventeen year-old Nathan is running – running from his past and running from his present. Raised by a white mother and never having known his native father, he must cope with prejudice and stereotypes...read more

There are shaggy dogs, waggy dogsAnd dogs that have fleasThere are slow dogs and low dogsAnd dogs out on spreesThere are cute dogs and mute dogsThat do without barksThere are mild dogs and wild dogsOut making their marks...Sheila Dalton, author of the acclaimed Bubblemania, and award-winning artist Kim LaFave, whose delightfully whimsical illustrations have graced such classics as Amos' Sweater, have slipped the leash to create a book of inspired wackiness about all kinds of dogs.With full-colour double-page spreads throughout and "read-it-again" sing-song verses that will encourage enthusiastic child participation, Doggerel is destined to become a dog-eared classic.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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