Award-winning poet Matthea Harvey and illustrator extraordinaire Giselle Potter team up to create an indescribably unique picture book about wanting to be normal, then coming to appreciate being different. Ruby would love to be like everyone else—not easy when you have a tiara-wearing mother and a father who spends his time trimming outrageous topiary. She'd also like to get a nice normal pet, maybe a dog. Then, on a family vacation to Norway, she finds herself adopted by a small, affectionate glacier.
Sometimes Amanda surprises Alligator with books... sometimes Alligator eats them. But what happens when Amanda brings home a special surprise? Narrated by Cher Willems with Mo and Trixie Willems.
Get ready to roll through the ABCs with a cast of busy little peas, as they work and play their way from A to Z. Music and vocal performance by Crystal Taliefero. Animation by Soup2Nuts.
One sluggish afternoon young Gronny decides to scare up some fun for his ogre friends and family. Instead, he catches a contagious case of yawns from a deceptively safe-looking creature in a playground, and he brings them back to the ogre homestead, where no one has ever seen a yawn before. The yawns spread like crazy and inspire ogre hysterics.
TumbleBook narrated by Robert Munsch! Megan is told to feed the pigs, but not to open the gate. She does of course, and the results are hilarious as the pigs help themselves to coffee and the newspaper at the breakfast table, follow Megan to school, and ride home by way of the school bus
It’s Olivia’s birthday and she is getting EVERYTHING she wishes for! But every time she blows out the candles, her wish makes a BIG mess! Can birthday cake after birthday cake, after birthday cake, make things right again?…wait and see, as Olivia says!
TumbleBook is narrated by Robert Munsch!
When Giant wakes up with a big hurting head and a sore raspy throat, he finds the cure is a bowl of Boy Soup! Giant captures five boys and Kate, who all protest his plan. But Kate soon comes up with her own remedy and convinces the Giant that the soup should be made, not of boys, but by boys. Narrated by author!
Special thanks to grade 1 and 2 students at Pope John Paul II School of the Simcoe County Catholic School Board in Barrie, Ontario for recording the Audio Quiz!!
When Braid Beard's pirate crew invites Jeremy Jacob to join their voyage, he jumps right on board. Buried treasure, sea chanteys, pirate talk--who wouldn't go along? Soon Jeremy Jacob knows all about being a pirate. He throws his food across the table and his manners to the wind. He hollers like thunder and laughs off bedtime. It's the heave-ho, blow-the-man-down, very best time of his life. Until he finds out what pirates don't do--no reading bedtime stories, no tucking kids in. . . . Maybe being a pirate isn't so great after all.
