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  • Where Does Your Cat Nap?

    CA$12.95
    Little readers and cat lovers everywhere will delight in this cozy tale of choices. Each cat romping through this story makes its own decision about the best place to snuggle down for a well-deserved rest. And we discover that love and belonging are important for both children and pets.
  • ABC's Down on the Farm

    CA$12.95
    Learn the alphabet down on the farm!
  • Return of the Fearsome...

    CA$12.95
    If you go out in the woods today...

    Don't.

    You might get a nasty surprise.

    Once upon a time, and not so long ago as that, the vast forests of Canada and the United States were filled with hordes of lumberjacks. The work was hard and dangerous, the living conditions primitive ... but that wasn't the worst of it.

    There were things in the woods.

    Not the usual menace of grizzly bear, timber wolf or mountain lion.

    Something worse. Something much worse.
  • Do Trees Sneeze?

    CA$12.95
    Do trees sneeze in the autumn breeze? My nonna says they do. What do YOU think?
  • Ti-Shadd: L’Ujima au Quotidien

    CA$12.95
    Le père de Li’l Shadd est un médecin pionnier très occupé. Lorsque Dr Shadd est appelé à aller voir un patient le jour d’anniversaire de son fils Shadd, le jeune garçon n’arrivait pas à comprendre pourquoi aider d’autres personnes étaitplus important que sa fête. Il y a une seule façon de le découvrir : rejoindre son père sur le long voyage en calèche pour aider la famille Nīkānisiw.
  • He Who Flies by Night: The...

    CA$12.95
    He Who Flies By Night: The Story of Grey Owl tells the true story of how Englishman Archie Belaney fulfilled his childhood fantasy of living in Canada's North with the First Nations people. He transformed himself into Wa-Sha-Quon-Asin or 'Grey Owl,' living with the animals of the forest and coming to love and respect the beauty and balance of nature. Children will love reading of how he lives with his two beaver friends, Jelly Roll and Rawhide, and how part of their beaver lodge was built right up through the floor of his cabin at Ajawaan Lake, Saskatchewan! Grey Owl became a well-respected conservationist, saving his beloved beavers from extinction.

    Grey Owl's vision and quest for conservation is shared throughout this book. The story itself is written in an engaging and colourful manner and beautiful paintings by First Nations artist, Mike Keepness, illustrate Grey Owl's remarkable adventures in northern Saskatchewan and take the reader from dawn to dusk and through the seasons. Children will be intrigued to discover a grey owl in every picture and the paintings themselves, in addition to their clarity of depiction, convey the humour and poignancy of Grey Owl's chosen life in the wild.

    Most children are unaware of Grey Owl and the lasting legacy of conservation he inspired. It is our hope that He Who Flies By Night: The Story of Grey Owl will continue to share Grey Owl's wonderful, timeless message of respect for nature and wildlife. Grey Owl, a master storyteller himself, often spoke with children about the importance of our place in the environment, saying, Remember, you belong to Nature, not it to you.
  • When We Had Sled Dogs (soft...

    CA$14.95
    When We Had Sled Dogs: A Story from the Trapline ācimowin ohci wanihikīskanāhk takes readers young and old on a journey into the past when dog teams were part of the traditional way of life in Northern Saskatchewan. Inspired by Elder Ida Tremblay’s childhood memories, and told in English with Woodland Cree words and phrases, the story follows the seasonal cycle of trapline life.
  • When the Trees Crackle with...

    CA$14.95
    A bear sleeping safely in her den, Kohkom telling a story by the fire, the trees crackling with cold—we are all connected to the seasons and the cycle of nature. The calming rhythm of the words echoes the rhythm of the land in this timeless picture book about the moon calendar of the northern Cree, and its warmly rendered watercolour illustrations bring Saskatchewan’s north to life. When the Trees Crackle with Cold is written in English and the northern Plains Cree y-dialect, inviting Cree and non-Cree speakers alike to explore the traditional moon calendar.
  • How's Peanut?

    CA$14.95
    Everyone is excited when there’s a baby on the way! Share the story of how babies grow before they’re born with your own “little peanut”!
  • apisîsiw shadd—Li Pchi...

    CA$14.95
    Li’l Shadd ohtāwiya ana Dr. Alfred Schmitz Shadd, caniwēw pihtikwēpiciw maskihkēwiyiniw. ikospīhk Dr. Shadd kānitaw wāpamāt kā-ahkosēyit ayisiyiniwa ikospīhk Li’l Shadd kā-tipiskahk, ana oskinīkiw namōya nistohtam tānihki ē-mistēyihtakwahk ka-wīcihihcik ayisiyiniwak pihci kā-tipiskahk. pēyak poko ēsi ka-kiskēyihtamihk: ka-wīcīwāt ohtāwiya wahyaw ka-pimitāpāsocik isi mīkiwāhp māmawinitowin.

    Li pchi Shadd so Papa aen premier Docteur paa li taan. Ishpi Docteur Shadd ka taypwawtikawit chi wapamawt aen malad li zhour Pchi Shadd ka tipishkuhk. Li pchi garsoon namoo nishtoohtum tanehki chaykoot si papa chi weechihawt la malad si mischetnawut avawn ka tipishkuhk. Yaenk aen fway chi kishkayhtahk: chi weechaywaat opapawa sur li zhourny avec aen zhwall pi aen wagoon chi weechihayw la famee di Nikanisiw.
  • Two Trees, The

    CA$14.95
    Jaxon's older brother Syd is smart, really smart, but all Jaxon wants is someone to play with. When Jaxon sees Syd having trouble interacting with other kids, he is torn between loyalty to his brother and the frustration of having a sibling who is "different." It is only when Syd gets the support he needs that the whole family is able to move forward in hope and healing.

    Education about ASD is key to the success of these remarkable individuals. Compassion and understanding is necessary not only for ASD kids, but for their parents and siblings too. The Two Trees is intended to raise awareness about the challenges of having an ASD child in the family, and to be a springboard for important discussions with ASD families, educators, students, and the general public.
  • Lullaby Lilly

    CA$14.95
    Lilly Lamm loves lullabies! All kinds of lullabies: happy ones, sad ones, short ones and long ones, tall ones, thin ones, fat ones and small ones! And every night Lilly insists someone sing her a lullaby. But when her mother and father, brothers and sisters, and cousins and aunts and uncles, and grandpa and grandma can’t sing enough lullabies to keep Lilly satisfied, she has to make up her own. But can Lilly learn to time a rhyme and lilt a lullaby when she doesn’t yet know how to write?

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