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Early Picture Books
With fewer words and pages bursting with illustrations, these early picture books are recommended for very young children and reflect the world around them.
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to 7
/ grades P
to 2
Community Snowman
Building a snowman becomes a community effort in this wordless story about a cold winter day that snowballs into a warm neighborhood gathering.
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Moon Wishes
In this timeless bedtime story, the moon's luminous, watchful presence inspires wishes of hope and love, with dreamy watercolour illustrations.
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to 6
/ grades P
to 1
When I Listen to Silence
When a child is asked to “Please, be quiet!” they sit silent … and their imagination sweeps them away on a breathtaking journey.
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ages 3
to 6
/ grades P
to 1
Sun Wishes
A joyful celebration of our daily companion, the sun, as it shines around the world.
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niwîcihâw / I Help
A simple and beautifully illustrated story in Cree and English about a young child picking rosehips in the woods with his grandmother.
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This is a lush and beautiful book...The English text is flawless while still preserving a subtle sense of linguistic magic and surprise...the book is captivating, aesthetically rich, linguistically fine-tuned, masterful...profoundly appealing...accessible for a preschool audience, [and] the originality and strength of the images will give it continued appeal for a primary school audience...a valuable resource for many classrooms and libraries...[a] success as a bilingual text. Highly Recommended.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"CM Magazine","OtherText_Review_1":"Flowing watercoiors and charming rhymes in English and Spanish combine to convey the colors of the natural world with simple yet sophisticated grace...The imagery in both words and pictures is often richly original...A lovely book to share, reflect upon and linger over.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_2":"Unusually lyrical-visually and verbally-this is a 'concept book' that will take children beyond simple colour identification and into an appreciation more profound and rare: for the colours and beauties of nature, and for the colours and beauty of metaphor.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_quote,_res_0":"Noted poet Jorge Luján and South Africa's illustrious illustrator Piet Grobler have teamed up again to produce this exquisite celebration of color.\n\nAs day turns into night, we are given fleeting, evocative glimpses of the qualities inherent in a range of colors. An antelope and some children are pictured inhabiting this delicate world. \n\nThis bilingual, bicultural book presents us with a beautiful vision of a planet in which nature, words, and the rising and setting of the sun and the moon exist in harmony.","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Noted poet Jorge Lujan and South Africa's illustrious illustrator Piet Grobler team up to produce this exquisite celebration of color.","ProductFormDescription":"Kindle, Fixed Layout","PublicationDate":"2008-02-01","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","ShortDescription":"Noted poet Jorge Lujan and South Africa's illustrious illustrator Piet Grobler team up to produce this exquisite celebration of color.","Width":"9.6","WidthCode":"in"}
ages 6
to 3
/ grades P
to 1
Colors! / Colores!
Noted poet Jorge Lujan and South Africa's illustrious illustrator Piet Grobler team up to produce this exquisite celebration of color.
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ages 4
to 7
/ grades K
to 2
nipêhon / I Wait
A quiet, gentle story about a family working together in the Cree tradition.
