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A Growling Place
by Thomas Aquinas Maguire

Aril's amazing adventure begins in her bedroom on the night the wind blows her teddy bear away. In vivid dreamscapes, Aril follows her bear with the ...

AWARDS

- Alcuin Society Award Winner, 2008

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
Illustrated by Iassen Ghiuselev

Spectacular illustrations capture the wonder of Alice's journey through a rabbit hole and beyond.

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- Silver Medal, Society of Illustrators


American Institute of Graphic Arts, 50 Books/50 Covers Competition Winner 


- The 19th Annual Chesley Awards
Nominee, Best Interior Illustration, 2003


- Alcuin Society Excellence in Book Design in Canada

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Dragons Love
by Stephen Parlato

The world has not always loved dragons ... but dragons have always loved the world. Dragons love the simple beauty of nature's fleeting flowers. They ...

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Finalist for the ForeWord Magazine Book of the year, 2010!


 



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Ella's Umbrellas
by Jennifer Lloyd
Illustrated by Ashley Spires

Ella has every umbrella under the rainbow from aquamarine to jellybean green. Her umbrellas fill up the entire house. Aunt Stella from Katmandu is ...

AWARDS

Nominated for the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize, 2010!


Winner of an Alcuin Award, 2010

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In Flanders Fields
by Norman Jorgensen
Illustrated by Brian Harrison-Lever

Deeply profound and moving, In Flanders Fields is an eloquent counterpoint to the senselessness and unhumanity of war. It tells the story of a ...

AWARDS

* Shortlisted for the WA Premier's Book Awards, Children's Books, 2003


* Shortlisted for the CBCA Picture Book of the Year Awards


* Henry Berg Children's Book Finalist, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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In Flanders Fields
by Norman Jorgensen
Illustrated by Brian Harrison-Lever

Early on Christmas morning the guns stop firing. A deathly silence creeps over the pitted and ruined landscape. A young soldier peers through a ...

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- Shortlisted WA Premier's Book Awards, Children's Books


- Shortlisted CBCA Picture Book of the Year Awards


- Henry Berg Children's Book Award finalist


- American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals


 

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Jack the Bear
by Christina Leist

Nosy Fox thinks Jack the Bear is just sitting under a tree and eating his honey with Grumpy Squirrel. But Brainy Owl says that Jack the Bear is ...

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Finalist for the ForeWord Magazine Book of the year, 2010!


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Looking for Loons
by Jennifer Lloyd
Illustrated by Kirsti Anne Wakelin

Just after sunrise a boy ventures to the front porch of his family cottage to scan the misty lake with an old pair of binoculars. He is looking for ...

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Winner of Canadian Toy Testing Council’s 2009 “Great Books for Children” award  (one of ten books chosen) 

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Memorial
by Gary Crew
Illustrated by Shaun Tan

To care, to remember, to respect.

The wartime recollections of three generations are centered on a memorial tree that is in danger of being ...

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* Honor Book Award in the 2000 CBCA Awards


* Winner of an APA Design Award for best-designed children's book


* Shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Book Awards

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Monkey World
by Matthew Porter

What if monkeys were astronauts, pirates, cowboys and queens? This zany book of ABC poetry is boldly illustrated by Matthew Porter with images ...

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Alcuin Society Award Winner, 2008

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One Winter Night
by Jennifer Lloyd
Illustrated by Lynn Ray

One winter night, out of their nest, ten little grey mice climb onto the ice. One by one they run back to the house scared off by a new animal ...

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Honorable Mention Alcuin Society


 

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Owls See Clearly at Night (Lii Yiiboo Nayaapiwak lii Swer): A Michif Alphabet (L’alfabet di Michif)
by Julie Flett

From Atayookee! to Lii Zyeu: this simply, elegantly illustrated picture book introduces young and old alike to the unique Michif language of the ...

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First Nation Communities Read (FNCR) 2010 Nominated Title, 2010

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Penguin and the Cupcake
by Ashley Spires

Most penguins are happy to eat fish everyday, but not Penguin. He yearns for something sweet, something tasty, something covered in pink icing. So ...

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Winner of the 2009-2010 Chocolate Lily Award!

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Picturescape
by Elisa Gutierrez

When a young boy visits the local art gallery, he is whisked away on a cross-country Canadian journey as he moves from painting to painting. Each ...

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* Shortlisted for the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize


BC Book Prizes, 2006


* Alcuin Society Award Winner, 2006

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Running Hot
by David Hill

He couldn't hear anything above the great drum-beat of the fire. Around nearly the whole clearing now, trees flailed in the ferocious updrafts. More ...

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- Nominated in the Young Adult section of the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, 2006





 

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Ryan Heshka's ABC Spook Show
by Ryan Heshka

This creepy Halloween ABC will thrill, spook, and delight. With perfectly eerie pop-art illustrations reminiscent of old comics and monster movies, ...

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* Alcuin Society Award Winner 2008

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Saffy
by Paola Opal

Winner of Top 10 Great Books for Children Award, 2010, Canadian Toy Testing Council!

 

Saffy is a baby giraffe too short to reach even the ...

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Top 10 Great Books for Children Award, 2010, Canadian Toy Testing Council


 

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Sunny
by Robin Mitchell-Cranfield & Judith Steedman

Sunny wakes up on a bright, summer morning to the familiar sounds of his wonderful world. Inspired by what they hear, he and his friends decide to ...

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* Alcuin Society Award Winner


* Shortlisted for the BC Book Prize


 

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The Adventures of Pinocchio
by Carlo Collodi
Illustrated by Iassen Ghiuselev

Winner of the 2002 Independent Publisher Book Award for Juvenile/Young Adult fiction (presented at BookExpo America), this hard cover edition ...

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* Benjamin Franklin Award - Finalist in the category of The Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book - Fiction


* ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award Silver Winner for Juvenile Fiction


*American Institute of Graphic Arts /AIGA/ 50 Books of the Year Award


* IPPY Book Award for Juvenile/Young Adult Fiction


* Alcuin Society Excellence in Book Design Award

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The Boy from the Sun
by Duncan Weller

Three gloomy children sit on the sidewalk when a little boy with a yellow, shining head floats down beside them. He takes them on a journey through ...

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- Winner of the 2007 Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Literature -Illustration


- Winner of the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award, 2008

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The Day it All Blew Away
by Lisa Cinar

Huge-headed Mr. Tadaa and the little person are mighty lonely. Surrounded by hat-tippers who are always tipping their hats and shunning those who ...

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Shortlisted for the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize, BC Book Prizes, 2008

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The Kalevala: Tales of Magic and Adventure
by Kaarina Brooks & Kirsti Mäkinen
Illustrated by Pirkko-Liisa Surojegin

Winner of the 2010 Benjamin Franklin Awards, Juvenile/Young Adult - Fiction!

Winner of the 2009 Aesop Award!

This ...

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Winner of the 2010 Benjamin Franklin Awards, Juvenile/Young Adult - Fiction



Finalist (Silver) Book of the Year Awards, Forward Magazine 


 


Winner of the 2009 Aesop Award


Winner of an Alcuin Award, 2010

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The Lost Thing
by Shaun Tan

OUT OF PRINT!

The Lost Thing is a humorous story about a boy who discovers a bizarre-looking creature while out collecting bottle-tops ...

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- Honourable Mention at the Bologna International Book Fair, Italy


- Honour Book at the CBCA Awards


- Winner of Aurealis Award and a Spectrum Award for illustration



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The Moon Rock
by Boriana Todorov & Vladimir Todorov

When Elliot slips his grandfather's moon rock into his pocket little does he know of the rock's extraordinary powers. The rock launches him into an ...

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* Alcuin Award for Design, Honorable Mention, 2008 

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The Rabbits
by John Marsden
Illustrated by Shaun Tan

OUT OF PRINT!

A rich and haunting allegory for all ages, all cultures. In The Rabbits, bestselling young adult author, John Marsden, has ...

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- Winner of the CBCA Picture Book of the Year, 1999


- Winner of the Aurealis Convener's Award for Excellence, 1999


- Spectrum Gold Award for Book Illustration, 1999



 

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The Red Tree
by Shaun Tan

When a child awakens with dark leaves drifting into her bedroom, she feels that "sometimes the day begins with nothing to look forward to, and ...

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- Winner of the Patricia Patricia Wrightson prize in the NSW Premier’s Book Awards


- Winner of the 'le Prix Octogones 2003’ prize by the Centre International d'Etudes en Litterature de Jeunesse, following its translation into French.


 

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The Viewer
by Gary Crew
Illustrated by Shaun Tan

For Tristan, the city dump was a treasure trove full of mystery. He would take each sad, broken and dirty thing apart to see how each could be ...

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- Winner of the Crichton Award, 1998


- Notable Book CBCA, 1998

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The World that Loved Books
by Stephen Parlato

In the world where all creatures read, marvelous transformations occur. Cats reading about mice become mice. Horses reading about fish become ...

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- Finalist for the ForeWord Magazine 2008 Book of the Year Award, Children's Picture Book



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Voyage with Jason
by Ken Catran

This retelling of the Greek legend of Jason and the Argonauts emphasizes the characters rather than the quest itself. Hercules rescues Pylos, ...

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- Winner of the New Zealand Post Children's Book of the Year Award 2001

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When You Were Small
by Sara O'Leary
Illustrated by Julie Morstad

All children like to hear stories about when they were small. In this charming picture book by Sara O'Leary and Julie Morstad, a young boy and his ...

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- Winner of the 2007 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award


- Shortlisted for the 2007 Amelia Frances Howard-GIbbon Illustrator's Award


- First Prize Alcuin Society Award for Excellence in Book Design, 2007


- 2007 CanWest Raise a Reader Beginning Reader Pick

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Where You Came From
by Sara O'Leary
Illustrated by Julie Morstad

In the sequel to the acclaimed picture book When You Were Small, curious little Henry has a new question for his parents: "Where did I come ...

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- AIGA 50 Books/ 50 Covers 


- Finalist for the ForeWord Magazine 2008 Book of the Year Award, Children's Picture Book


Alcuin Society Award Winner, 2008