Author: Janet Lunn
Publisher: Tundra Books
Keywords: candles, shining, hundred, one
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2008-10-28
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 088776889X
ISBN-13: 9780887768897

This well-loved storybook has been reissued with enhanced reproduction and many newly created illustrations just in time for a warm Christmas read under a cozy quilt by the light of a flickering fire. Ten-year-old Lucy is a pioneer girl in the Upper Canada of 1800. Her imagination fired by the schoolmaster’s stories of Christmas memories, Lucy sets about making a special Yuletide gift — something her frail mother will be able to remember and cherish forever. But even with the unwelcome help of her little brother, Dan, making one hundred handmade candles to light on Christmas night is a da

Author: William Kurelek
Publisher: Tundra Books
Keywords: summer, prairie
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 1975-06-01
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 088776116X
ISBN-13: 9780887761164

Summer on the prairies during the Depression years was not a vacation from school; it was hard work.

Author: Marthe Jocelyn
Publisher: Tundra Books
Keywords: ready, books, spring, tundra
Number of Pages: 16
Published: 2008-04-08
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0887768490
ISBN-13: 9780887768491

What am I going to wear? The question that diverts us all is first presented in the toddler years when the mastery of getting dressed is a triumph and opinions about clothing are emphatic. These four board books illustrated by collage-artist Marthe Jocelyn are a unique tribute to the colors, textures, and patterns that make clothes a child’s favorite pastime.Ready for Spring displays a full wardrobe, introducing lovely words like turtleneck and galoshes, and allowing even the very young reader to be an expert on what should be worn next season.

Author: William Kurelek
Publisher: Tundra Books
Keywords: nativity, northern
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 1976-09-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0887760996
ISBN-13: 9780887760990

Artist William Kurelek created this uniquely moving book on the theme that Christ came to all people everywhere. What would happen if He came now? A boy imagines that the nativity takes place in northern snows. He dreams that the Christ child is born to Eskimos, to Indians, to Blacks, that the Nativity takes place in a fisherman’s hut, a garage, a cowboy’s barn, that the holy family is given refuge in a city mission, a grain barn, and a country school. A beautiful holiday story for all generations.

Author: Mordecai Richler
Publisher: Tundra Books
Keywords: dinosaur, jacob
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2009-09-08
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0887769268
ISBN-13: 9780887769269

When his parents bring a little green lizard home from their vacation in Kenya, Jacob Two-Two is thrilled. But as the days pass, he realizes that Dippy isn’t just an ordinary lizard at all. In fact, it becomes obvious to Jacob that Dippy’s not so little either. As Dippy grows bigger and bigger, he begins to attract some very big attention from some very important people. Before Jacob realizes, he is on the run from the entire government of Canada – and with a full-grown dinosaur!

Author: May Ebbitt Cutler
Publisher: Tundra Books
Keywords: kurelek, william, story, free, breaking
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2002-10-22
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 088776617X
ISBN-13: 9780887766176

William Kurelek was an internationally acclaimed artist, described by the New York Times as “the North American Brueghel.” Kurelek’s art was brilliant, but his life was difficult in many ways. Born in Alberta and raised on a Manitoba dairy farm, he suffered abuse at the hands of his father. Critics ignored his early paintings, and Kurelek fought a desperate battle with depression. How did such a tormented man create such a stunning legacy that is enjoyed around the world?May Ebbitt Cutler, who published William Kurelek’s award-winning books and knew him as artist and friend, tells the

Author: Cary Fagan
Publisher: Tundra Books
Keywords: shirt, new
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2007-09-11
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 088776715X
ISBN-13: 9780887767159

Receiving the yearly birthday gift from his grandmother has become David’s living nightmare. The “surprise” she always has for him never varies. How can he stop this never-ending flow of stiff, white, scratchy shirts — “perfect gentlemen” shirts that make him squirm and pull and shift and twitch? David closes his eyes and imagines a long line of shirts — one for every year of his life — stretching on forever. Then suddenly, without really intending to, he has done the unthinkable. “DAVID!” his mother screams. And when David opens his eyes, there are his mother, his father,