When his baby sister is stolen by Fairies and replaced with a changeling, John Nesbit travels into the world of the Strangers in order to rescue her and confronts such unusual creatures as human-headed flying dogs and a hollow man....
Focuses on illustration and contains essays on why and how books were chosen, a list of all books in the three volumes, and predictions for future classics. Picture books covered include titles by Edward Ardizzone, L. Leslie Brooke, Virginia Lee Burt...
Critical essays on children's novels by Louisia May Alcott, Lloyd Alexander Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lewis Carroll, Carlo Collodi, Eleanor Estes, Louis Fitzhugh, Esther Forbes, Kenneth Grahame, Irene Hunt, Rudyard Kipling, Madeline L'Engle, C.S. Lewi...
Perry Nodelman’s latest novel “successfully walks the line between light and dark fantasy” as Johnny Nesbit returns once again for a fight against the Strangers—this time for his own life (Lela Olszewski). Johnny Nesbit knows ...
In The Proof That Ghosts Exist  -- the first installment in the Ghosthunters trilogy  -- Molly and Adam managed to save their father from a family curse, and near-certain death on the day before his 35th birthday. Or did they? An unfortunate Â"er...
Brad Gold is an average Grade 11 kid, desperately trying not to attract attention to himself. When Brad agrees to interject some student opinion into Roblin High School's new proposed Code of Conduct, he gets a crash course in personal agendas and be...
A wonderful seasonal anthology for Dear Canada readers, both old and new!A real treat for fans of this series, and all lovers of historical fiction! Eleven stories that each revisit a favourite character from books in the Dear Canada series are inclu...
Coping with being poor during the Depression is hard enough, but Sally also has to contend with anti-Jewish sentiment when she ventures outside her familiar neighbourhood near Toronto's Kensington Market. Her cousin Benny is always getting into scrap...
A holiday treat for fans of the Dear Canada series, and all lovers of historical fiction! Experience the true spirit of giving. Sally's streetwise cousin Benny has complicated her life before, nudging her out of the comfort of her close-knit Jewish n...