Dino-baby

It's not easy being a big sister - especially when your new baby brother is a roaring dino baby. There are just SO many things to remember ...Be quiet in the morning, when you first get up. Because crashes, bangs and thuds will wake our dino pup. Shhhhhhhh! Don't play rough and tumble with a little thing like this. Instead be soft and gentle. We all LOVE a dino kiss. Mwaah! But, before long, th…

Our New Baby

Pictures and brief text describe what it's like to have a new baby in the family

I Love You More Each Day!

Each day is bright and beautiful, Each day holds something new, And every day is magical When it is shared with you. This wonderful book full of humour and warmth is perfect for sharing with your child. A lovely gentle bedtime read with gorgeous illustrations by Tina Macnaughton (co-creator of Little Hedgehog). The perfect book to share on Valentine's Day, Mother's Day or Fa…

My Daddy

There are so many dads in the world, and they are all different. From Kangaroo Dad who is great at bouncing to Tiger Dad who has the scariest roar, every dad is brilliant. But whose daddy is the best? Filled with colourful animals, My Daddy is a fun and playful celebration of all dads, everywhere. Written in gentle rhyming verse by Julia Hubery with warm illustrations by Rebecca Elliott, it'…

Funny Families

This cute board book with diecut cover and lift the flap pages with rounded corners introduces core first relationships with family. Simple fun rhyming text and bright illustrations are stimulating for younger children.

I Want to Go Home

The Little Princess's family moved to a new castle, where there is lots more room! But she wants to go home to the old castle. Is the old castle still the same, now that it has new owners?

Why I Love My Mom

story about mom and child

I Love You When...

picture story book about friendship

Let's Look At Families

book about family

Family Members

Discusses the different people who may make up a family and the connections between family members.

Family Homes

"Young students will learn how families all around the world live – the similarities and the differences – in this colourful new series.

One Day, Daddy!

Little Monster wonders how he will ever be able to leave his family one day when he sets out to be a space explorer, in a wonderful book that teaches youngsters to imagine future possibilities and shows them that even space explorers can come back home to their parents.

The Trouble with Dad

Dad's fantastic robot creations cause the family to have incredible adventures. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Daddies are for Catching Fireflies

Daddies do so many terrific things. A daddy always gives you the best seat at the parade, he reads you bedtime stories, and he tries his best to fix your toys when they break (even if he doesn't always succeed). Filled with soft, beautiful watercolor artwork and lilting text, this lift-the-flap book about all the great things fathers do is perfect for young children.

When I was Young In The Mountains

"An evocative remembrance of the simple pleasures in country living; splashing in the swimming hole, taking baths in the kitchen, sharing family times, each is eloquently portrayed here in both the misty-hued scenes and in the poetic text." -Association for Childhood Education International "An evocative remembrance of the simple pleasures in country living; splashing in the swimming hole, ta…

Family and Friends

book about family and friends

I Love My Mommy

Kids like to read a come to life book. That's the interesting part to read this book. You can watch the characters in the smartphone. This's the new way for the kids to read and also for me as the mother. It made them sit down hours to read, and read again. Who doesn't interested in the technology?

China men

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House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, a family divided by war

For all the talk of the Civil War "pitting brother against brother," there has never before been a single book that traces the story of one family ravaged by that conflict. And no family could better illustrate the personal toll the war took than Lincoln's own. Mary Todd Lincoln was one of fourteen siblings who were split between the Confederacy and the Union. Three of her brothers fought, and …

Lion ( A long way home)

The miraculous and triumphant story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and home ... but an identity long-since left behind

The lost boy: A foster child's search for the love of a family

As a child, Dave Pelzer never had a real home. Rescued from an alcoholic, abusive mother, his only possessions were the clothes he carried in a paper bag; the only world he knew was one of isolation and fear.

How to say I love you out loud

When Jordyn's autistic brother joins her at her elite school her junior year, she is determined not to let anyone know they are related, even if that means closing herself off to her closest friends Erin, Tanu, and Alex, the football captain she secretly loves.

Fleabrain loves Franny

This middle-grade novel takes place in Pittsburgh in 1952-53. The protagonist is Franny, a young girl of imagination, curiosity, and stubbornness. While recovering from polio, she begins a correspondence with a flea named Fleabrain

Starfish

Kiko Himura yearns to escape the toxic relationship with her mother by getting into her dream art school, but when things do not work out as she hoped Kiko jumps at the opportunity to tour art schools with her childhood friend, learning life-changing truths about herself and her past along the way.

Chasing the milky way

Lucy Peevey, twelve, and her best friend, Cam, are perfecting the robot that could win a competition, a scholarship, and a way out of Sunnyside Trailer Park when Lucy's mother goes off her medication and her manic-depressive disorder goes out of control.

This is the life: A novel

about two estranged brothers who come together when one of them discovers he has a brain tumor and the other emerges as his caretaker. This is the life: Not the one you thought you had yesterday. Or the one that might not be here tomorrow. Just this one. Here and now ... This is the story of Louis, who never quite fit in, and of his younger brother, who always tried to tag along. As they got ol…

Jasper Jones

Late on a summer night in 1965, Charlie Bucktin, is visited in his sleep out by Jasper Jones, an outcast in the regional mining town of Corrigan. Rebellious, mixed-race and solitary, Jasper is a distant figure of danger and intrigue for Charlie. So when Jasper begs for his help Charlie follow him takes him to his secret glade in the bush, where he witnesses Jasper's horrible discovery.

The bed and breakfast star

Where do baby apes sleep? In apricots! I'm Elsa, and that's one of my jokes (I tell LOTS of jokes and I'm going to be a big star one day). I do my best to cheer my family up - but no one seems to laugh much any more. Not since we lost our lovely house and had to move into a bed and breakfast hotel.

The scar boys: A novel

Written as a college admission essay, eighteen-year-old Harry Jones recounts a childhood defined by the hideous scars he hid behind, and how forming a band brought self-confidence, friendship, and his first kiss.

On the banks of Plum Creek

Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.