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  • The Rooster Crows

    A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles

    by Maud Petersham, Miska Petersham ...
    Illustrated by Maud Petersham, Miska Petersham ...
    The Caldecott Medal–winning collection of classic American rhymes, songs, and jingles.Beautifully rendered illustrations accompany well-known nursery rhymes, counting-out games, skipping-rope songs, finger games, and other schoolyard classics beloved by generations of American children. Collected from across America, The Rooster Crows features rhymes both old and new, and will be a perfect ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Rootabaga Stories (Vintage Children's Books Series)

    Enriched edition. Crazy Funny Tales for Little Children

    by Carl Sandburg, Miska Petersham, Logan Faraday ...
    Illustrated by Maud Petersham ...
    The 'Rootabaga Stories', part of the Vintage Children's Books Series, offers a delightful plunge into the whimsical and the surreal, reflective of the broader early 20th-century movement towards exploring fantastical elements in children's literature. This anthology is drenched in diverse literary styles, from poetic prose to vibrant narratives, embodying the playful spirit and imagination that ... Read more

    Was $2.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rootabaga Stories (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Crazy Funny Tales for Little Children

    by Carl Sandburg, Miska Petersham, Holden Glenwick ...
    Illustrated by Maud Petersham ...
    Rootabaga Stories (Illustrated Edition) gathers a singular cycle of American fairy tales whose landscapes are built from cornfields, railroads, skyscrapers, prairies, and nonsense names rather than castles and courts. Blending lyric prose, comic repetition, folk cadence, and modernist whimsy, the volume reimagines wonder through the textures of the American Midwest. Pieces such as the tales of the ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rootabaga Pigeons

    by Carl Sandburg ...
    Series series Classics To Go
    Joyous, humorous, poetic, and always uniquely American, Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories are an important part of our children's literary legacy. In inimitable prose, Sandburg created Rootabaga Country-where the railroad tracks go from straight to zigzag, where the pigs have bibs on, and where the Village of Cream Puffs floats in the wind-and populated it with baby balloon pickers, flummywisters, ... Read more

    $10.96 CAD

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  • Under Magnolia

    A Southern Memoir

    by Frances Mayes ...
    A lyrical and evocative memoir from Frances Mayes, the Bard of Tuscany, about coming of age in the Deep South and the region’s powerful influence on her life.The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun and Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes revisits the turning points that defined her early years in Fitzgerald, Georgia. With her signature style and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Velveteen Rabbit

    by Margery Williams ...
    Illustrated by William Nicholson ...
    The Velveteen Rabbit is the charming children’s tale about a stuffed rabbit who longs to become real, and the magic that makes his dream come true.HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

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  • A Christmas Memory

    by Truman Capote ...
    Three holiday stories in one festive volume from literary titan Truman Capote: “A Christmas Memory,” “The Thanksgiving Visitor,” and “One Christmas”“Capote, in a bright, fluttering, wheeling way, makes all the tinsel and confetti and embroidery that bind together such delicate emotions as nostalgia and sentimentality come vigorously to life.”—The New Yorker, on “A Christmas Memory”Here are three ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Rascal

    by Sterling North ...
    Series series Puffin Modern Classics
    **A Newbery Honor BookCelebrating 50 years of a beloved classic!**Nothing's surprising in the North household, not even Sterling's new pet raccoon. Rascal is only a baby when Sterling brings him home, but soon the two are best friends, doing everything together--until the spring day when everything suddenly changes.Rascal is a heartwarming boyhood memoir that continues to find its way into the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Aesop’S Fables

    by Gwen Petreman ...
    Illustrated by Chris Stone ...
    This book targets classroom teachers, homeschoolers, and primary students. The author chose 20 of Aesops fables that contain lessons that underscore the importance of engaging in appropriate behavior and developing desirable character traits. Each fable was written at three different levels addressing the variety of individual differences found in all classrooms. Visit www.apluslearningmaterials ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Architect of Flowers

    by William Lychack ...
    The stories in William Lychack's dazzling new collection, The Architect of Flowers, explore the dear and inevitable distance between people in loving relationships and find hope in dark situations. With tiny, precise details, Lychack observes the overlooked moments of everyday life—the small failings between parents and children, the long-held secrets in married life.A small-town policeman brings ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Delights & Shadows

    by Ted Kooser ...
    Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry“Kooser documents the dignities, habits and small griefs of daily life, our hunger for connection, our struggle to find balance.”—Poetry"[Kooser] brushes poems over ordinary objects, revealing metaphysical themes that way an investigator dusts for fingerprints. His language is so controlled and convincing that one can't help but feel significant truths ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Feather Room

    by Anis Mojgani ...
    Science, birds, Billy the Kid, and lots of feathers surround The Feather Room, Anis Mojgani's follow up to his Pushcart-nominated work, Over the Anvil We Stretch. In The Feather Room, Mojgani further explores storytelling in poetic form while traveling farther down the path of magic realism, endowing his tales with a greater sense of fantasy and brightness. The work recounts loss and heartbreak ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD