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  • Balloons over Broadway

    The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade (Bank Street College of Education Flora Stieglitz Straus Award (Awards))

    by Melissa Sweet ...
    From Caldecott Honor artist Melissa Sweet comes the perfect Thanksgiving Day picture book. Let's have a parade!Meet the master puppeteer who invented the first balloons for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Melissa Sweet brings to life the inspirational story of the puppeteer who invented the giant balloons floating in the sky during the annual parade celebrating Thanksgiving. The Caldecott ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Some Writer!

    The Story of E. B. White

    by Melissa Sweet, Marta White ...
    6 Starred Reviews! New York Times Bestseller! A People Magazine Best Children's Book! A Washington Post Best Book! A Publishers Weekly Best Book! Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Award Honor recipientCaldecott Honor winner Sweet mixes White's personal letters, photos, and family ephemera with her own exquisite artwork to tell the story of this American literary icon. Readers young and old will be ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Girls Think of Everything

    Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women

    by Catherine Thimmesh ...
    Illustrated by Melissa Sweet ...
    In kitchens and living rooms, in garages and labs and basements, even in converted chicken coops, women and girls have invented ingenious innovations that have made our lives simpler and better. Their creations are some of the most enduring (the windshield wiper) and best loved (the chocolate chip cookie). What inspired these women, and just how did they turn their ideas into realities?Features ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Signs of Hope

    The Revolutionary Art of Sister Corita Kent

    by Mara Rockliff ...
    Illustrated by Melissa Sweet ...
    Signs of Hope is a picture book biography of groundbreaking artist, teacher, and Catholic nun Corita Kent from critically acclaimed author Mara Rockliff, with stunning full-color art from Caldecott Honor winner Melissa Sweet.Let Corita teach you how to see the world in a whole new way!Sister Corita Kent, the “pop art nun,” burst onto the 1960s art scene with splashes of color and ad slogans ... Read more

    $17.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pinky and Rex and the School Play

    Ready-to-Read Level 3 (with audio recording)

    by James Howe ...
    Illustrated by Melissa Sweet ...
    Series Book 3 - Pinky & Rex
    Pinky and Rex is the perfect series for early readers learning to read and navigate friendships!Pinky really wants to be an actor and is sure he'll get the lead in the school play. Rex, on the other hand, wants nothing to do with being on stage. She's afraid she'll forget her lines—or worse. Everything changes when Pinky convinces Rex to go with him to the tryouts. Will Pinky and Rex still be best ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Rebel in a Dress: Cowgirls

    by Sylvia Branzei ...
    Illustrated by Melissa Sweet ...
    For the rebel in every girl's heart, this series presents the achievements of extraordinary, relevant, and inspiring women throughout history. Through quotes, narratives, photographs, illustrations, and fact-filled side-bars, each book tells the story of twelve bold and courageous women.The Wild West and the rodeo are not the only places where the cowgirl spirit can be found. From the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Balloons Over Broadway

    The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade

    by Melissa Sweet ...
    Narrated by John McDonough ...

    Unabridged

    15 min

    A Caldecott Honor Medal recipient and the illustrator of nearly 100 children's books, Melissa Sweet delivers the charming story of Tony Sarg, the man known as ''America's Puppet Master.'' With delightful, rhyming prose, Sweet takes listeners back to the 1920s to meet the designer who created the first helium-filled balloons for Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Celebrating the fun and playfulness of ... Read more

    $10.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin

    by Jen Bryant ...
    Illustrated by Melissa Sweet ...
    **A Robert F. Sibert Honor BookWinner of the Schneider Family Book Award**An ALA-ALSC Notable Children's BookWinner of the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for ChildrenAs a child in the late 1800s, Horace Pippin loved to draw: He loved the feel of the charcoal as it slid across the floor. He loved looking at something in the room and making it come alive again in front of him. He ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Goldfinches

    by Mary Oliver ...
    Illustrated by Melissa Sweet ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Caldecott Honoree Melissa Sweet gorgeously illustrates the work of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Mary Oliver for the first time in picture book form.ONE OF BOOK RIOT’S BEST CHILDREN’S BOOKS OF THE CENTURY (SO FAR)**Have you heard them singing in the wind, above the final fields?Have you ever been so happy in your life?Mary Oliver, winner of the National Book Award and the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Right Word

    Roget and His Thesaurus

    by Jen Bryant ...
    Illustrated by Melissa Sweet ...
    Series series Incredible Lives for Young Readers (ILYR)
    "Words, Peter learned, were powerful things. And when he put them in long, neat rows, he felt as if the world itself clicked into order."For shy young Peter Mark Roget, books were the best companions — and it wasn't long before Peter began writing his own book. But he didn't write stories; he wrote lists. Peter took his love for words and used it to organize his ideas and find exactly the right ... Read more

    $26.33 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Duck Can't Sleep

    by E. B. White ...
    Illustrated by Melissa Sweet ...
    Even the most restless reader will find peace and quiet in this breathtakingly illustrated book about the magic of nature, nighttime, and a duck who can’t sleep, based on a poem by the renowned author of Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White, which was published in The New Yorker in 1928 and now appears for the first time in book form.How surprised I was to seeA duck as wide awake as me.Long past bedtime, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Ten Questions You Must Ask Your Doctor

    How to make better decisions about drugs, tests and treatments

    by Ray Moynihan, Melissa Sweet ...
    Daily the world is rocked by scandals about the side effects of drugs, the dangers of unprofessional doctors, and the risks of overcrowded and dysfunctional hospitals. Despite the life-saving technologies, the wonder drugs and miracle cures, much is wrong with modern medicine. There is little doubt that a dose of healthy scepticism is just what the doctor ordered.With clarity, simplicity and ... Read more

    $10.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus