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Picture Books and Fiction (251 series)

Hide, Fish, Hide! Sea Creature Camouflage

It's a beautiful day to be living in the ocean. The sun is shining, and the water is a glorious blue. But wait . . . something big, something hungry, something menacing is approaching. It's a great white shark! Luckily, there's no reason for alarm. From ink-releasing cuttlefish to burrowing flounder to camouflaging leafy dragon, all the local sea creatures seem to have a way to hide from our hungry shark. Well, almost all. Puffer fish finds that all the best hiding places are taken. What can a p

High Holidays

Add meaning to children's observance of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, with books from Kar-Ben.

Hockey Night on Halloween  

It's that spooky time of year again, and you know what that means... Monsters on ice! Every fall, a ghoulish game takes place-one where the stakes are high, the players are terrifying, and the puck is... well, it's spooky! This isn't your average hockey match. In fact, the winning team gets the ultimate prize: the right to haunt your house on Halloween night. Eek! Coach Frankenstein is leading his team of monstrous misfits, including a new player he's pieced together himself. Will his Frankenste

Home for a While

Calvin is in foster care, and he wants to trust someone, anyone, but is afraid to open his heart. He has lived in a lot of houses, but he still hasn't found his home. When he moves in with Maggie, she shows him respect, offers him kindness, and makes him see things in himself that he's never noticed before. Maybe this isn't just another house, maybe this is a place Calvin can call home, for a while.

How Mom Met Mama

Once upon a time, a woman meets a mermaid and falls in love. But the story doesnÎt end there. Before they can live their happily ever after, the pair must go on a fantastical journey full of pirates, dragons, trolls, and wizards. What do you think happens next? Learn the (possibly) true story of how a girlÎs two mothers met.

How to Avoid Being Eaten by Sharks . . .And Other Advice

There is one sure-fire method to avoid being eaten by sharks: Don't go in the ocean. How can you avoid being eaten by sharks? What does it mean to ""skateboard"" someone? Is there a chance you could be abducted by aliens? Are there zombies hiding under your brother's bed? In this hilarious guide, John Larkin relates his tried and tested advice for navigating the mysteries of life, with a sprinkling of some of the facts and history he's discovered along the way. Accompanied by entertaining comic-

Howard B. Wigglebottom

The books in the series deliver light handed educational messages with lots of humour and colourful, engaging illustrations. They enable children to deal with anger, conflict, bullying, feel good about themselves and become better listeners.

Huxley Higgins

Huxley Higgins is a small seven-year-old with a BIG imaginationT an imagination that often gets him into ridiculous predicaments. Young readers will laugh along with Hux's entertaining adventures in these early chapter books.

I Am a Potato!

If Creature is not a potato, what could they possibly be? Taxonomy has never been so much fun! This is a silly, delightful book that nonetheless teaches an important lesson about using the scientific method to deduce answers by observing, asking questions, and eliminating possibilities. Vividly brought to life in Elliot Kruszynski3s punchy, graphic illustrations, taxonomy has never been this fun.

I Truck: A Big Rig's Epic Trip

Packed with horsepower, towering, tough, / I truck from coast to coast, bringing goods to neighbourhoods. Climb on up into the cab of a semitruck and take a cross-country journey with a driver and her trusty pup! The truck rumbles to the warehouse to pick up a load of toys and encounters many other trucks along the way. It makes multiple stops for deliveries, encounters a snowstorm, and navigates steep mountain roads.