Product Description: Barnacle Garrick is bold and saucy and selfish. And for a pirate captain, that's good, very good. And his crew are all scurvy sea dogs―selfish down to the last fleabitten scuttle-butt. And that’s good too. But Augusta Garrick is shy, polite, and selfless...read more

Product Description: Kari-Lynn Winters and Lori Sherritt-Fleming team up again for another poetry collection for young readers with the emphasis on math concepts including measuring time, patterns, counting, symmetry, numbers, shapes, estimating and more! He was hungry for math, always ready to munch...read more

Product Description: Most people hear the word "vampire" and they think of shady, nocturnal characters with capes and pointed teeth. But that's all pretend...right? Wrong! Blood-thirsty creatures are real—but not in the ways you might be imagining them! In fact, there are trillions of vampires creeping, crawling, swimming, buzzing and even flying among us...read more

Product Description: 2014 Silver Birch Express Award nomineeCanadian Science Writers? Association Outstanding Youth Book 2013 shortlistOn CCBC's Best Books for Kids and Teens list 2013On Resource Links? Best of 2013 listOn Ontario Library Association Best Bets List 2013Imagine a world without bees...read more

Nan is excited; the winter carnival is packed with fun things to do: skating, tubing, tobogganing. She wants to take part in it all! As she races around the carnival, with Pa trying to catch up, she encounters all the sounds of the alphabet like the sss of sliding down the snow and the p-p-p of the popcorn maker. Some alphabet books highlight the names of the letters. Others suggest lists of words that begin with a particular sound. This unique alphabet book does something completely different. It focuses on the phonics of the letters within the context of a story. Phonics is an important aspect of a balanced early literacy program, and this book is a stepping-stone on children’s lifelong literacy journeys.

Product Description: In this beautiful picturebook, illustrated by Christina Leist, a mother and her toddler are caught up in a summer rainstorm on their walk through the city. This simple story, poetically told by Kari-Lynn Winters, will be a fun bedtime—or anytime—read for toddlers and parents alike...read more

Product Description: Jeffrey can't think of a thing to write, so he doodles instead, only to have his doodle begin to order him about. Jeffrey struggles with the situation until he discovers that the most strong-willed doodle is powerless against a well-told tale...read more