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★ “Tug at the heartstrings and tickle the funny bone…This warm tale is definitely one for the keeper shelves.

On her annual trip in her father’s 18-wheeler, eight-year-old Jolene is headed to Los Angeles on a six-day road trip to deliver some newsprint with her dad.

A young child walks along a country road into town where there’s a parade on. The experiences of the day, and the child’s eventual homecoming and bedtime, are chronicled and compared to the sun.

Meet Onyx and the orcas of J pod, the world’s most famous whales. Illustrated with stunning photos, this picture book introduces young readers to the orcas humans first fell in love with.

This illustrated nonfiction picture book by child psychologist Dr. Jillian Roberts introduces children to the important topic of the environment.

RCMP Sergeant Ray Robertson has been serving with the United Nations, a job that takes him to South Sudan and Haiti, where he is training local police and assisting with investigations.

Follow along as reluctant mob goddaughter Gina Gallo gets dragged into one wild scheme after another by her bumbling mob family that never gets it right.

In this sweet little book, a monster tries to scare a young child. But the child insists the monster is not scary but actually quite huggable.

Wild birds are everywhere, from the dry deserts to the icy poles.

InBig Whales, Small Worldyou will meet whales from around the world. This rhyming photographic board book visits the oceans of places like New Zealand, Russia and South America.

Award-winning author Merl Massie brings to the page the life and career of Sylvia Fedoruk (1927-2012), which encompassed some of the most ground-breaking scientific, athletic and public transformat

The environmental crisis is, in many ways, a crisis of time.

We think of Métis as having Prairie roots. Quebec doesn’t recognize a historical Métis community, and the Métis National Council contests the existence of any Métis east of Ontario.

This book is about how you listen and what you hear, about how to have a dialogue with the sounds around you.

Cognitive neuroscience, once a specialized area of psychology and biology, has enjoyed increased worldwide legitimacy in the last thirty years not only in psychiatry and mental health, but also in