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Product Description: Do Not Open Until Christmas is a collection of Christmas-themed short stories from critically acclaimed children's author Jean Little. From a young boy settling in with a new family complete with new siblings (and a chipmunk and raccoon!) just in time for Christmas to a Dickensian story of Barnardo children trying to settle in to a new home after being rescued from the poverty of living on the dangerous streets of 19th century London, these stories are filled with hope and all of the warm and joyful feelings of the holiday season...read more

Hardcover:

9780889955271 | Red Deer Pr, October 31, 2014, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Do Not Open Until Christmas is a collection of Christmas-themed short stories from critically acclaimed children's author Jean Little.
9780889955288 | Red Deer Pr, October 31, 2014, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Do Not Open Until Christmas is a collection of Christmas-themed short stories from critically acclaimed children's author Jean Little.

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Product Description: Book by Little, Jean

Hardcover:

9781935279150 | 1 edition (Kane Miller Book Pub, June 1, 2009), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Book by Little, Jean

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A collection of poems and brief vignettes from the perspective of a girl named Kate Bloomfield, reflecting her views on friendship, school, family life, and the world.
By Jean Little and Sue Truesdell (illustrator)

Reinforced:

9780606035255 | Demco Media, April 1, 1990, cover price $13.59 | also contains Hey World, Here I Am! | About this edition: A collection of poems and brief vignettes from the perspective of a girl named Kate Bloomfield, reflecting her views on friendship, school, family life, and the world.

Prebinding:

9781442005662 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $13.99 | also contains Hey World, Here I Am!

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Product Description: I Gave My Mom a Castle is a collection of poems about giving and receiving. Most are prose poems, mini stories, told by a wide cast of characters from toddlers to teens with an adult or two thrown in for good measure.

Paperback:

9781551432533 | Orca Book Pub, March 1, 2004, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of poems about the various kinds of gifts people receive, the art of giving, and related topics.

Prebinding:

9781435262140 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 25, 2008), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: I Gave My Mom a Castle is a collection of poems about giving and receiving.

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Flora Gauld faces the challenges of taking care of her younger brother, William, and living with her aunt and uncle in Canada, while her parents return to Taiwan as missionaries.

Hardcover:

9780670856640 | Viking Childrens Books, September 1, 1995, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Flora Gauld faces the challenges of taking care of her younger brother, William, and living with her aunt and uncle in Canada, while her parents return to Taiwan as missionaries

Paperback:

9780140377613 | Penguin Global, April 24, 2007, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Flora Gauld faces the challenges of taking care of her younger brother, William, and living with her aunt and uncle in Canada, while her parents return to Taiwan as missionaries.

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Samantha and Alexis meet on the plane as they travel from Vancouver to Toronto to begin their summer vacations, and decide to switch places as they'd each rather be at the other's destination.

Hardcover:

9780670044665 | Penguin Global, April 24, 2007, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Samantha and Alexis meet on the plane as they travel from Vancouver to Toronto to begin their summer vacations, and decide to switch places as they'd each rather be at the other's destination.

Product Description: Nell makes two wishes on her birthday, but the next day they show little sign of coming true. Everyone in her household is busy and wants her out from underfoot and no one is willing to help her find her lost cat. In the end she finds more than a cat, and she makes her own wishes come true with the help of a row of tall, bright, smiling sunflowers...read more

Paperback:

9781551432922, titled "The Birthday Girl" | Orca Book Pub, September 30, 2004, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Nell, now eight years old, had a wonderful birthday celebration, but now she must find her cat who has been missing for two days.

Library:

9781424212569 | Fitzgerald Books, January 1, 2007, cover price $20.00 | also contains The Birthday Girl | About this edition: Nell makes two wishes on her birthday, but the next day they show little sign of coming true.

Prebinding:

9781417641840 | Turtleback Books, September 1, 2004, cover price $14.75 | About this edition: Nell, now eight years old, had a wonderful birthday celebration, but now she must find her cat who has been missing for two days.

Product Description: "All good pets have fur. Only strange pets have no fur." Emma's brother, Max, wants a dog. But he can't have one because Emma is allergic to furry animals. With her birthday just a few days away, Emma decides that she would like a pet for a present...read more

Library:

9781424205820 | Fitzgerald Books, January 1, 2007, cover price $13.85 | also contains Emma's Strange Pet | About this edition: "All good pets have fur.

Reinforced:

9780606326292 | Demco Media, October 1, 2004, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: Emma is allergic to animals with fur, but because she and her adopted brother really want a pet, they decide to try a lizard.

Product Description: "All good pets have fur. Only strange pets have no fur." Emma's brother, Max, wants a dog. But he can't have one because Emma is allergic to furry animals. With her birthday just a few days away, Emma decides that she would like a pet for a present...read more

Hardcover:

9780060283506 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, September 1, 2003, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Emma is allergic to animals with fur, but because she and her adopted brother really want a pet, they decide to try a lizard.

Paperback:

9780064442596 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins Childrens Books, November 1, 2004), cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Emma is allergic to animals with fur, but because she and her adopted brother really want a pet, they decide to try a lizard.

Library:

9781424205820 | Fitzgerald Books, January 1, 2007, cover price $13.85 | also contains Emma's Strange Pet | About this edition: "All good pets have fur.
9780060283513 | Harpercollins, September 1, 2003, cover price $16.89 | About this edition: Emma is allergic to animals with fur, but because she and her adopted brother really want a pet, they decide to try a lizard.

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Emma finds out how hard it is to be a big sister when her family adopts a four-year-old boy named Max.

Hardcover:

9780060283483, titled "Emma's Yucky Brother" | Harpercollins Childrens Books, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Emma finds out how hard it is to be a big sister when her family adopts a four-year-old boy named Max.

Paperback:

9780064442589, titled "Emma's Yucky Brother" | Harpercollins Childrens Books, April 1, 2002, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Emma finds out how hard it is to be a big sister when her family adopts a four-year-old boy named Max.

Library:

9781424205837, titled "Emma's Yucky Brother" | Fitzgerald Books, January 1, 2007, cover price $13.85
9780060283490, titled "Emma's Yucky Brother" | Harpercollins, January 1, 2001, cover price $16.89 | About this edition: Emma finds out how hard it is to be a big sister when her family adopts a four-year-old boy named Max.

Reinforced:

9780606256025, titled "Emma's Yucky Brother" | Demco Media, December 1, 2002, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: Emma finds out how hard it is to be a big sister when her family adopts a four-year-old boy named Max.

Prebinding:

9780613454865, titled "Emma's Yucky Brother" | Turtleback Books, August 1, 2001, cover price $13.55 | About this edition: Emma finds out how hard it is to be a big sister when her family adopts a four-year-old boy named Max.

Product Description: A new friend? When Sally moves into the house next door, Emma's mom thinks it will be easy for the two girls to become friends. But Emma is so shy, she can barely even read out loud in school. Will Emma ever make friends with her new neighbor?

Hardcover:

9780060253899, titled "Emma's Magic Winter" | Harpercollins Childrens Books, August 1, 1998, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: With the help of her new friend who has magic boots just like her own, Emma overcomes her shyness and no longer hates reading out loud in school

Paperback:

9780064437066, titled "Emma's Magic Winter" | Reprint edition (Harpercollins Childrens Books, July 1, 2000), cover price $3.99 | About this edition: With the help of her new friend who has magic boots just like her own, Emma overcomes her shyness and no longer hates reading out loud in school.

Library:

9781424205813, titled "Emma's Magic Winter" | Fitzgerald Books, January 1, 2007, cover price $13.85 | About this edition: A new friend?
9780060253905, titled "Emma's Magic Winter" | Harpercollins, September 1, 1998, cover price $15.89 | About this edition: With the help of her new friend who has magic boots just like her own, Emma overcomes her shyness and no longer hates reading out loud in school

Prebinding:

9780613278058, titled "Emma's Magic Winter" | Turtleback Books, September 1, 2000, cover price $12.35 | About this edition: With the help of her new friend who has magic boots just like her own, Emma overcomes her shyness and no longer hates reading out loud in school.

Product Description: Seeing-eye pup, Shakespeare, conquered many fears in Rescue Pup. Now he is back, about to be matched up with a blind boy, ready to begin his working life. Tim is enraged by his blindness and wants nothing to do with a guide dog. But he is no match for Shakespeare.

Paperback:

9781551433394, titled "Forward, Shakespeare!" | Orca Book Pub, October 1, 2005, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Now that Shakespeare has completed his training as a guide dog, he is given to Tim, a seventeen-year-old who is enraged that he is blind, and Shakespeare has his work cut out for him.

Miscellaneous:

9781554696239 | Orca Book Pub, September 1, 2005, cover price $5.95

Reinforced:

9780606344166 | Demco Media, November 1, 2005, cover price $14.70 | About this edition: Seeing-eye pup, Shakespeare, conquered many fears in Rescue Pup.

Prebinding:

9781417685103, titled "Forward, Shakespeare!" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 2005, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Now that Shakespeare has completed his training as a guide dog, he is given to Tim, a seventeen-year-old who is enraged that he is blind, and Shakespeare has his work cut out for him.

Product Description: Shakespeare is a Seeing Eye puppy. But before the time comes for him to train with a blind person, he must spend six months with a girl who has never learned to love. He does all he can to teach her, but the job places him in some dangerous situations and by the end of the story he has earned the title Rescue Pup...read more

Paperback:

9781551432991 | Orca Book Pub, March 30, 2005, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Before beginning his training as a Seeing Eye dog, Shakespeare, a labrador retriever who understands human speech, is placed for his first year of life with a foster child who has never learned to love.

Reinforced:

9780606331890 | Demco Media, March 30, 2005, cover price $13.60 | About this edition: Shakespeare is a Seeing Eye puppy.

Prebinding:

9781417685141 | Turtleback Books, February 1, 2005, cover price $14.80 | About this edition: Shakespeare is a Seeing Eye puppy.

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Intimidated and dejected by the other animals' stories about the important gifts brought by their ancestors to the stable where Jesus was born, Pippin the pig performs an act of kindness and discovers the true meaning of Christmas giving.
By Jean Little, H. Werner Zimmermann (illustrator) and Werner Zimmermann (illustrator)

School and Library:

9780439650625 | Scholastic, October 1, 2004, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Intimidated and dejected by the other animals' stories about the important gifts brought by their ancestors to the stable where Jesus was born, Pippin the pig performs an act of kindness and discovers the true meaning of Christmas giving.

Product Description: Nell makes two wishes on her birthday, but the next day they show little sign of coming true. Everyone in her household is busy and wants her out from underfoot and no one is willing to help her find her lost cat. In the end she finds more than a cat, and she makes her own wishes come true with the help of a row of tall, bright, smiling sunflowers...read more

Miscellaneous:

9781554697335 | Orca Book Pub, April 1, 2004, cover price $2.99

Library:

9781424212569, titled "Birthday Girl" | Fitzgerald Books, January 1, 2007, cover price $20.00 | also contains Birthday Girl | About this edition: Nell makes two wishes on her birthday, but the next day they show little sign of coming true.

Reinforced:

9780606309066, titled "Birthday Girl" | Demco Media, October 1, 2004, cover price $13.60 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

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Ten-year-old Willow and her difficult little brother Twig, abandoned on the streets of Vancouver, take a chance and get in touch with a grandmother Willow barely remembers, crossing Canada to make a new home in the Ontario countryside with a peculiar group of people and animals.

Hardcover:

9780670888566 | Viking Childrens Books, April 1, 2003, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Ten-year-old Willow and her difficult little brother Twig, abandoned on the streets of Vancouver, take a chance and get in touch with a grandmother Willow barely remembers, crossing Canada to make a new home in the Ontario countryside with a peculiar group of people and animals.

Product Description: Dickon wasn't happy in his old home or his old school. He hopes that in his new neighborhood he will meet children who never knew his old, hyper self, who will like him for who he is now. And he hopes for a dog of his own. Dickon's mother calls him Birdie...read more

Paperback:

9781551432038 | Orca Book Pub, September 1, 2002, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: When Dickon Fielding moves to a new neighborhood with his mother, he hopes to get the dog he has always dreamed of when he discovers that the local Humane Society is right on the other side of the fence from his new home.

Miscellaneous:

9781554695782 | Orca Book Pub, September 1, 2002, cover price $5.95

Reinforced:

9780606253390 | Demco Media, December 1, 2002, cover price $13.45 | About this edition: Dickon wasn't happy in his old home or his old school.

Prebinding:

9780613534826 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2002, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: When Dickon Fielding moves to a new neighborhood with his mother, he hopes to get the dog he has always dreamed of when he discovers that the local Humane Society is right on the other side of the fence from his new home.

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In the 1840s, a Scottish orphan is brought to Canada to live with distant family members, and she finds her strange new world difficult at first as she must learn to cope with her previously unknown relations, new surroundings, and a dramatically different way of life.

Hardcover:

9780670875931 | Viking Childrens Books, November 1, 1997, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: In 1848, sixteen-year-old Elspet looks back on her life and describes how she came to be orphaned in Scotland, went to live with relatives, and emigrated with them to a rough but rewarding existence in Canada.

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At first, difficulties erupt between Gruntle, a refined city pig, and her Grampa Bacon, a country pig, who sees things very differently, but, with time, Gruntle sees that Grampa Bacon's ways are not that bad and begins to change her ways.
By Jean Little and Johnny Wales (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780670863402 | Viking Childrens Books, February 1, 1997, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Gruntle decides to leave the city to be a 'real' pig like her grandfather, but she discovers that rolling in muck and eating swill and living without any books to read are not for her.

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Despairing of ever getting his baseball-loving grandmother to pay attention to anything else during baseball season, Ryder thinks that she does not hear his announcement that he wants to be a mathematician when he grows up.
By Kim Lafave (illustrator), Jean Little and Claire MacKay

Hardcover:

9780670852703 | Viking Childrens Books, May 1, 1995, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Since his baseball-loving grandmother never pays attention to anything else during baseball season, Ryder thinks that she does not hear him say what he wants to be when he grows up

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Her family and schoolmates teach Sarah not to expect special privileges because she is disabled

Hardcover:

9780670859672 | Reissue edition (Viking Childrens Books, April 1, 1995), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: After spending five years in a cerebral palsy center, Sally is challenged to adjust to normal family and school life.

Paperback:

9780316528009 | Reprint edition (Little Brown & Co, April 1, 1988), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Her family and schoolmates teach Sarah not to expect special privileges because she is crippled

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Claire's younger sister is always braver when it comes to shots, spooky shadows, tree climbing, fierce dogs, and scary movies, but when bullies take Jess' teddy bear, Claire finds her own way to be brave
By Jean Little and Janet Wilson (illustrator)

Paperback:

9780140543094 | Reprint edition (Puffin, January 1, 1995), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Claire's younger sister is always braver when it comes to shots, spooky shadows, tree climbing, fierce dogs, and scary movies, but when bullies take Jess' teddy bear, Claire finds her own way to be brave

School and Library:

9780670834952 | Viking Pr, March 1, 1992, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Claire's younger sister is always braver when it comes to shots, spooky shadows, tree climbing, fierce dogs, and scary movies, but when bullies take Jess's teddy bear, Claire finds her own way to be brave

Reinforced:

9780606077385 | Demco Media, January 1, 1995, cover price $11.20 | About this edition: Claire's younger sister is always braver when it comes to shots, spooky shadows, tree climbing, fierce dogs, and scary movies, but when bullies take Jess' teddy bear, Claire finds her own way to be brave

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While on a picnic, a father puts together familiar elements from various stories until he comes up with a version his children like.

Hardcover:

9780670829637 | Viking Pr, April 1, 1991, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: When their father begins mixing up fairy tales, a little girl and her brother must set him right

Paperback:

9780140541649 | Reprint edition (Puffin, March 1, 1994), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: When their father begins mixing up fairy tales, a little girl and her brother must set him right

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Because she is the youngest child in her family, Patsy Small is constantly teased by her older brothers and sister until she builds a model town and gains respect. By the author of Jess Was the Brave One.
By Jean Little and Janet Wilson (illustrator)

School and Library:

9780670844715 | Viking Pr, March 1, 1993, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Patsy, the youngest of the Small children, suffers from the teasing of her brothers and sisters, until she uses the craft supplies her father gives her when she is sick to let them know how she feels

Twelve-year-old Janie's family had reached the point where no one believed anything she said. But then godmother Tillie appeared at just the right time to save the summer--and Janie.

Hardcover:

9780316527965 | Little Brown & Co, June 1, 1969, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Twelve-year-old Janie's family had reached the point where no one believed anything she said.

Paperback:

9780140346671 | Reprint edition (Puffin, September 1, 1991), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Janie is a terrible liar and her godmother decides to find the cause of her problem because Janie herself doesn't know why she tells untruths

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