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In the time before animals were as they are today, Raven and Loon were both white. Their feathers had no colour at all.

Graeme Base takes young readers on an exhilarating journey of discovery from the plains of Africa and the jungles of the Amazon to the woodlands of North America and the deserts of outback Australi

Presents a tribute to timeless childhood summer activities, from playing hide-and-seek and hopscotch to making mud soup and imagining that a stick is a magic wand.

Dusk, the world's first bat, must lead his colony to safety in a time of changing species.

A simple description of a flowering plant's life cycle through the seasons.

Based on memories from his childhood, Aboriginal author Larry Loyie tells of the adventures of Lawrence, an Aboriginal boy who learns many lessons during the winter season.

A young girl discovers a vacant park next door to her new house that is intended for butterflies, but when she has trouble getting butterflies to stay there, her new neighbors help her plant flower

When Sophie and Matthew plant pumpkins, their grandfather explains to them why they need bees to make their pumpkins grow, but how will the bees find their garden?

Tom loves running through cow fields with his best friend, Peggy, and his dog, Amos—especially when he's pretending to be his favorite radio hero, the Lone Ranger.

Four separate stories celebrate the many-legged friendship between Squid and Octopus as they disagree over how to stay warm, encourage each other, and fret over the contents of a fortune cookie.

During the summer her grandfather is dying of leukemia and death seems all around, 15-year-old Vicky finds comfort with the pod of dolphins with which she has been doing research.

December, 1943: A badly damaged American bomber struggles to fly over wartime Germany. At the controls is twenty-one-year-old Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown.

A celebrated collection of twelve short stories.

A Choctaw boy tells the story of his tribe's removal from the only land its people had ever known, and how their journey to Oklahoma led him to become a ghost--one with the ability to help tho

"A young mother, one of the many missing indigenous women, watches over her small daughter as she grows up without her nimama.