Product Description: This well-loved storybook has been reissued with enhanced reproduction and many newly created illustrations just in time for a warm Christmas read under a cozy quilt by the light of a flickering fire. Ten-year-old Lucy is a pioneer girl in the Upper Canada of 1800...read more

The popular Canadian author responsible for Amos's Sweater, a 1997 American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, tells the charming story of a little girl whose seemingly odd affection for umbrellas proves prescient on her rainy birthday.

In 1783, as the loyalists leave New York, Charlotte Haines disobeys her father to say farewell to her cousins, who are leaving with their father

Twelve-year-old orphan Rose, sent to live with unknown relatives on a farm in Canada, ventures into her aunt's root cellar and finds herself making friends with people who lived on the farm more than a century earlier

When fifteen-year-old Mary journeys from Scotland to Canada in search of her cousin, she makes a tragic discovery and alienates the townsfolk, who fear her psychic powers

Product Description: First United States edition, stated, hardback with dust jacket,

A retelling of the traditional tale of twelve princesses who dance secretly all night long and the gardener's boy who follows them and discovers where they dance.