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Cover: What Do You Find in a Tide Pool?

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Cover: What Do You Find in a Rainforest Tree?

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Cover: What Do You Find in a Pond?

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Cover: What Do You Find in a Coral Reef?

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Cover: ¿Qué es el espíritu emprendedor? (What is Entrepreneurship?)

Canadian Children’s Book Centre

Spring 2017 Best Books for Kids and Teens. Starred Review. View →

 
Cover: Rub-a-dub-dub: Three Men and a Pancake

Each page has only a few lines of text and bright illustrations makes this a good read for an early fluent reader or as a read aloud book for a younger child.” Recommended. View →

 
Cover: Rub-a-dub-dub: Three Men and a Pancake

This book, which is one of over twenty titles in the series, will delight children familiar with the original stories, and intrigue those children who are hearing them for the first time. View →

 

School Library Journal

An investigation of past and current energy usage in the United States and Canada, with nods to the future. Critical thinking prompts appear throughout and encourage students to reflect on past and possible energy consumption habits. View →

 
Cover: Birthdays in Different Places

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Cover: Hansel and Gretel and the Green Witch

Children will like the brightly coloured pictures, which the illustrator, Chris Jevons, obviously had fun creating.  They will also be drawn in by Laura North’s completely original take on the story that they already know.  The story is simply told, with easy words for beginning… View →

 
Cover: Get Informed - Stay Informed

Overall, these are helpful sources for beginning background on a topic, but more importantly, for instruction on how to think about information and ideas. View →

 
Cover: The Emperor's New Uniform

Haselhurst’s retelling of this well-known story is lively and fast-moving. Young readers will enjoy the setting of a soccer match and the characters being soccer players and their fans. Kelly Kennedy’s colourful illustrations add to young readers’ understanding of the story. Vocabulary… View →