Jean Little

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  • Bibliography:
    45 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1965
  • Latest Book:
    April 2018
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Emma

Emma's Magic Winter (Jan-2000)
Emma's Yucky Brother (May-2002)
Emma's Strange Pet (Nov-2004)

Book List in Order: 45 titles

  • Home from Far

  • Take Wing

    Jean Little has told a moving story of a girl caught between her shyness and her strong determination to protect her handicapped brother. In it she has drawn a convincing picture of what family love and courage can do to help one who is different....

  • One to Grow on

  • Look through My Window

  • From Anna

    Jean Little's classic celebrates its 40th anniversary with a new look for a new generation!Nine-year-old Anna has always been the clumsy one in the family -- somehow she can never do anything right. She bumps into tables, and she can't read the cha...

  • Kate

  • Stand in the wind

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  • Mine for Keeps

    Away at school, Sally Copeland has always dreamed of going home, but now that she’s there, she feels frightened and unsure of herself.Will her brother and sister accept her? Will she be able to do things for herself? And what will it be like to go ...

  • Different Dragons

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    Ben isn't sure he wants to visit his Aunt Rose while his parents and older brother are away. He doesn't like admitting it, but he's afraid of a lot of things -- dogs, thunderstorms, new places and people. Aunt Rose turns out to be much nicer tha...



  • Hey World, Here I Am!

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    Eighth-grader Kate Bloomfield, the character who also appeared in "Look Through My Window" and "Kate", shares her thoughts on life in this collection of poems, vignettes, and observations. Her topics include family, religion, dating, and love. Illust...

  • Lost and Found

    A Jean Little Classic

    When Lucy's family moves to a new town just before school begins, Lucy is lonely and worried about whether she'll make new friends. Then she meets a little dog that is friendly and may -- or may not -- be a stray. Her parent...

  • Mama's Going to Buy You a Mockingbird

    A Jean Little Classic

    Jeremy is not having a good summer. His best friends have moved away, and he has to stay at the cottage with only his little sister and Aunt Margery. His parents have remained in the city so his father can have an operation.<...

  • Listen for the Singing

    A companion to the beloved classic From Anna!Just as Anna is about to enter a new school, she hears news on Papa's radio -- Canada is at war with Germany. What will that mean for the Soldens, who immigrated from Germany just a few years ago?She soo...

  • Jess Was the Brave One

    Claire's younger sister is always braver when it comes to shots, spooky shadows, tree climbing, fierce dogs, and scary movies, but when bullies take Jess's teddy bear, Claire finds her own way to be brave...

  • Revenge of the Small Small

  • Bats about Baseball

  • Gruntle Piggle Takes Off

    At first, difficulties erupt between Gruntle, a refined city pig, and her Grampa Bacon, a country pig, who sees things very differently, but, with time, Gruntle sees that Grampa Bacon's ways are not that bad and begins to change her ways....

  • The Belonging Place

    In the 1840s, a Scottish orphan is brought to Canada to live with distant family members, and she finds her strange new world difficult at first as she must learn to cope with her previously unknown relations, new surroundings, and a dramatically dif...

  • Emma's Magic Winter

    Emma
    I Can Read: Level 3

    A new friend? When Sally moves into the house next door, Emma's mom thinks it will be easy for the two girls to become friends. But Emma is so shy, she can barely even read out loud in school. Will Emma ever make friends with her new neighbor?...



  • Emma's Yucky Brother

    Emma
    An I Can Read Book

    Emma has always wanted a little brother. Now her family is adopting Max, and Emma is sure he will be the best brother ever. But Max has his own ideas. He thinks sisters are yucky, and that Emma is the yuckiest! Is this really what having a brother is...

  • Birdie for Now

    Dickon wasn't happy in his old home or his old school. He hopes that in his new neighborhood he will meet children who never knew his old, hyper self, who will like him for who he is now. And he hopes for a dog of his own. Dickon's mother cal...

  • Willow And Twig

    Willow doesn't know what to do. Her mother has taken off again, she has to look after her brother Twig, and they're out on the streets of Vancouver with nowhere to go. Then Willow remembers her grandmother, whom she hasn't seen in years. Gram doesn't...

  • The Birthday Girl

    Nell makes two wishes on her birthday, but the next day they show little sign of coming true. Everyone in her household is busy and wants her out from underfoot and no one is willing to help her find her lost cat. In the end she finds more than a cat...

  • Rescue Pup

    Shakespeare is a Seeing Eye puppy. But before the time comes for him to train with a blind person, he must spend six months with a girl who has never learned to love. He does all he can to teach her, but the job places him in some dangerous situation...

  • Emma's Strange Pet

    Emma
    I Can Read: Level 3

    From an award-winning team comes a lively and heartwarming I Can Read book about a family's first pet.

    Pet wanted! Max wants a furry pet. Emma wants a pet too, but she's allergic to animals with fur. When Emma finds the perfect animal, will...

  • Pippin the Christmas Pig

    Pippin the pig shows the boasting barn animals that giving of yourself is the best Christmas gift of all.

    Tomorrow is Christmas, and all the animals are boasting to little Pippin the pig about the important gifts their VERY-great-grandparents ...

  • Forward, Shakespeare!

    Seeing-eye pup, Shakespeare, conquered many fears in Rescue Pup. Now he is back, about to be matched up with a blind boy, ready to begin his working life. Tim is enraged by his blindness and wants nothing to do with a guide dog. But he is no match fo...

  • Somebody Else's Summer

  • His Banner Over Me

    Flora Gauld has lived in Taiwan for as long as she can remember, but now she is going home to Canada to stay with her uncle and aunt. She is given the special responsibility of looking after her younger brother, William -- but who will look after her...



  • The Sweetest One of All

  • Dancing Through the Snow

    Jean Little's poignant novel about an abandoned girl, and the dog who helps teach her how to trust again.Ten-year-old Min has had a long history of foster care since she was abandoned at age three. Now, let go by yet another foster family, Min contin...

  • Orphan at My Door : The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope

    Through the diary of 10-year-old Victoria Cope, we learn about the arrival of ragged Mary Anna, one of the thousands of impoverished British children who were sent to Canada at the beginning of the century. Mary Anna joins the Cope family as a servan...

  • Brothers Far From Home

    With more than 200,000 books in print, Dear Canda has fast become the historical fiction series for young girls. Jean Little's latest addition is the diary of a young girl observing her world change as war rages thousands of miles away.It has been tw...

  • If I Die Before I Wake

    Fiona comes from a large and loving family where she, her older sisters and her mother are all twins. But soon her loving family is torn apart as the Spanish flu is brought to Canada by soldiers returning from fighting overseas in World War I. Fiona ...

  • A Season for Miracles

    Twelve original holiday stories from the top children's writers in the country!What an incredible gift book for Dear Canada fans! The twelve stories in this treasury are set around Christmas time and feature the young girls from a dozen previous Dear...

  • Like a Stack of Spoons

    A holiday treat for fans of the Dear Canada series, and all lovers of historical fiction! See how love brings this family even closer together at Christmastime. Eliza's brothers both enlisted to fight in World War I. On the Home Front there were coal...

  • Untangling Christmas

    A holiday treat for fans of the Dear Canada series, and all lovers of historical fiction! Share in the excitement leading up to Christmas morning. During the euphoria towards the end of World War I, a different enemy stalked the land, killing by the ...

  • All Fall Down : The Landslide Diary of Abby Roberts, Drank, District of Alberta, 1902

    A young girl survives the deadliest landslide in Canadian history -- but a family secret could call into question everything she thought she knew about her life before the disaster.After her father dies, Abby and her family move west to live with r...

  • Do Not Open Until Christmas

    Do Not Open Until Christmas is a collection of Christmas-themed short stories from critically acclaimed children's author Jean Little. From a young boy settling in with a new family complete with new siblings (and a chipmunk and raccoon!) just in...



  • Do Not Open Until Christmas: Short Stories

    Do Not Open Until Christmas is a collection of Christmas-themed short stories from critically acclaimed children's author Jean Little. From a young boy settling in with a new family complete with new siblings (and a chipmunk and raccoon!) just in...

  • A Time for Giving: Ten Tales of Christmas

    Featuring stories from nine outstanding Canadian authors, this anthology is the perfect Christmas gift for Dear Canada readers, both old and new!A Time for Giving includes ten tales of Christmas, following the most recent Dear Canada diarists "the Ch...

  • Dear Canada

    When a frightened girl and boy arrive on the Twiss family's doorstep to escape the Blitz, Charlotte wonders how she will keep her war guests from missing their parents back home, or from cowering every time a plane flies overhead. Though the war is b...

  • Hand in Hand

    Inspired by the real-life story of Helen Keller and the servant girl Martha Washington! How did Helen Keller manage before Annie Sullivan came to teach her language? This fictionalized story of two very different girls in the South, two decades after...

  • Harry's Hiccups

    Harry tries and tries to get rid of his hiccups. He tries drinking a glass of water upside down, he tries putting an ice-cold key down his back, he gleefully tries eating a spoonful of sugar. But nothing works! In this charming picture book, writt...

  • Harry's Hiccups Read-Along

    Harry tries and tries to get rid of his hiccups.He tries drinking a glass of water upside down, he tries putting an ice-cold key down his back, he gleefully tries eating a spoonful of sugar. But nothing works!In this charming picture book, written by...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jean Little has published 45 books.

Jean Little does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Harry's Hiccups, was published in April 2018.

The first book by Jean Little, Home from Far, was published in June 1965.

Yes. Jean Little has 1 series.
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