The Wind and Amanda’s Cello, by Alison Lohans

March 12, 2024March 12, 2024 | sharon

*The Wind and Amanda’s Cello*, by Alison Lohans

Coming on September 24, 2024!

One day, as Amanda sits practicing her cello, a restless wind swoops inside her instrument. From that moment on, all sorts of unusual musical things occur as the wind directs Amanda’s music-making.

But then, Amanda begins to outgrow her little cello . . .

Author: Alison Lohans
Illustrations: Sarah Shortliffe
Publisher: Shadowpaw Press

Paperback price: $14.99 CAD
Hardcover price: $23.99 CAD
Pages: 32 (ages 3-5)

The Wind and Amanda’s Cello will be published in hardcover and paperback on September 24, 2024 It is available for pre-order from:

The 1-Dogpower Garden Team, by Alison Lohans

August 19, 2021February 8, 2022 | sharon

The 1-Dogpower Garden Team, by Alison Lohans

Sophie loves her dog, Max. Max loves Sophie. But he also loves to dig. Can Sophie find a way to stop Max from digging up Mom’s garden?

Author: Alison Lohans

Picture book, 32 pages

You can order this book in paperback from:

Purple Hair? I Don’t Care!

June 23, 2019June 23, 2024 | sharon

Author: Dianne Young
Illustrated by Barbara Hartmann
Oxford University Press/Stoddart, 1994
ISBN 0-19-540991-4
OUT OF PRINT

“Purple Hair? I Don’t Care! is the [cumulatively rhyming] story of Mrs. Della Ragon’s visit to Dr. Gray. The doctor tells Della that she is going to have a baby – but he must warn her about a few things. First of all, the baby may have purple hair. To this Della responds, “I don’t care! I’ll love my little baby anyway.” Dr. Gray proceeds to make other outrageous predictions about Della’s baby, but always her response is the same. The reader has the impression that she is in the doctor’s waiting room overhearing this exchange with the other obviously concerned patients. A surprise ending will please young readers.”

Kay Jones, NeWest Review

A World of Difference

June 23, 2019June 23, 2024 | sharon

Author: Dianne Young

Whitecap Books, 1999
ISBN 1-55110-955-7

OUT OF PRINT

“… some of us, not just the age group for whom this book was written, would have some difficulty saying exactly what distinguishes a rabbit from a hare, or an Asian elephant from an African elephant. Explaining (and illustrating with photgraphs) these differences is the task author Dianne Young has set herself. Extra information in coloured boxes add some sauce to the substance.”

Susan Perren, The Globe and Mail

Grampa, Will You Tell Me a Story? by Dianne Young

November 12, 2018June 23, 2024 | sharon

Author: Dianne Young
Illustrator: Brian Crane (creator of the Pickles comic strip)

Publisher: Baobab Press

When Nelson asks for a story, Grampa obliges. But it isn’t the story Nelson expects. Full of funny reversals and twists … who knows where this tale will lead?

Order from Our Little Book Shop

See more at Dianne’s website.

Honouring the Buffalo wins 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Award

Honouring the Buffalo, a Plains Cree Legend - by Judith Silverthorne

May 10, 2016September 2, 2019 | sharon

Congratulations to Judith Silverthorne and Ray Lavallee, whose book Honouring the Buffalo (illustrated by Mike Keepness) has won one of two first prizes in the 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards in the Children’s Picture Book (6 years and up) category!

Honouring the Buffalo, by Judith Silverthorne

February 1, 2015January 20, 2016 | sharon

Author: Judith Silverthorne
As told by: Ray Lavallee, Wisdom Keeper and Medicine Man of the Piapot First Nation
Illustrator: Mike Keepness
Publisher: Your Nickel’s Worth Publishing

48 pages
ISBN-978-1-927756-33-1

Features:

Includes Plains Cree translation (Y dialect)
Meets the curriculum outcomes for Grade 1-6 Social Studies and Language Arts; also ties in with teaching about treaties
Education guides, question and answer sheets, and student worksheets available.
For details, download the Honouring the Buffalo Information Sheet .

What’s Inside:

An estimated thirty to fifty million bison once thundered across the Great Plains and much of North America.

Honouring the Buffalo is the story of how the Buffalo gifted themselves so freely through the Creator to the Plains Cree people to help them survive. Discover how every part of the buffalo was used to provide shelter, food, clothing, tools, hunting, spiritual ceremonies and many other necessities.

For more details, worksheets and ordering information, see Judith’s website.