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{"id":7348967669819,"title":"Music from the Sky","handle":"music-from-the-sky","description":"\u003cp\u003eA young girl and her grandfather set out one morning to find the perfect branch for Grampa to carve. Grampa says he's going to make a flute, but the girl is doubtful. She has been to a concert in the city, and knows what a flute looks like. How can her grandfather make one out of a tree branch? 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Music from the Sky
A story about the close bond between a young girl and her grandfather set in one of Canada's oldest black communities in Nova Scotia.
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ages 8
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to 5
Tuk and the Whale
Told by a young Inuit boy, this story imagines what might have happened if the people of a Baffin Island winter camp had encountered European whalers.
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Chin Chiang and the Dragon's Dance
Chin Chiang has dreamed of dancing the dragon's dance but now the day has arrived, and he is so scared that he wants to melt into his shoes.
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ages 8
to 11
/ grades 3
to 6
A Boy Named Queen
Who will be brave enough to make friends with the boy named Queen?
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ages 5
to 8
/ grades K
to 3
Talking with Mother Earth / Hablando con Madre Tierra
These moving bilingual poems explore a young Indigenous boy's connection to Mother Earth and how he is healed from the wounds of racism he has endured.
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Moví la mano / I Moved My Hand
A simple but empowering poem about creating a world, told from a young child's perspective.
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{"id":7325044834363,"title":"My Heart Is Africa","handle":"my-heart-is-africa","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1996, Scott Griffin left the comfortable routine of his life as a successful businessman to fly solo to Africa in his single-engine Cessna 180 to work for the Flying Doctors Service, an African organization that flies doctors and nurses to remote areas to administer medical assistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy Heart is Africa\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an engaging personal story of his two-year adventure but it is also the story of Africa -- its problems and people, its landscape and limitations, its culture and courage. Griffin's intrepid flying odyssey takes the reader on a journey across Africa and into the lives of the doctors, nurses, aid workers and eccentric characters that crossed his path along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to the AMREF Flying Doctors Service.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T14:25:11-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T14:25:11-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":2021,"price_min":2021,"price_max":2021,"available":false,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":43244528828475,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9781770893122","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"My Heart Is Africa - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2021,"weight":363,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9781770893122","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770893122.jpg?v=1736364213"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770893122.jpg?v=1736364213","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24979658342459,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2700,"width":1800,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770893122.jpg?v=1736364213"},"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2700,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770893122.jpg?v=1736364213","width":1800}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1996, Scott Griffin left the comfortable routine of his life as a successful businessman to fly solo to Africa in his single-engine Cessna 180 to work for the Flying Doctors Service, an African organization that flies doctors and nurses to remote areas to administer medical assistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy Heart is Africa\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an engaging personal story of his two-year adventure but it is also the story of Africa -- its problems and people, its landscape and limitations, its culture and courage. Griffin's intrepid flying odyssey takes the reader on a journey across Africa and into the lives of the doctors, nurses, aid workers and eccentric characters that crossed his path along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to the AMREF Flying Doctors Service.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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{"id":7325027139643,"title":"A Pair of Scissors","handle":"a-pair-of-scissors","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhether riffing on rush-hour traffic, on walking the dog, or on watching TV, Sharon Thesen's incantatory poems capture elusive, overlooked moments, and together form an incisive and witty portrait collage of our daily lives.In spinning acts of violence into fairytales, mundane anxieties into catchy advertising jingles, and pedestrian scenes into surrealistic filmscapes, Thesen reveals to us a pair of scissors -- a double-edged sword where workaday events hold transcendent magic, and artful fantasies are born of inescapable banality. Sharon Thesen's collection brims with honesty, toughness, humour, and genius.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T10:25:07-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T10:25:07-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1695,"available":false,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":43252618625083,"title":"trade paperback with flaps","option1":"trade paperback with flaps","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887846472","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"A Pair of Scissors - trade paperback with flaps","public_title":"trade paperback with flaps","options":["trade paperback with flaps"],"price":1695,"weight":191,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887846472","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":[],"featured_image":null,"options":["Title"],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eWhether riffing on rush-hour traffic, on walking the dog, or on watching TV, Sharon Thesen's incantatory poems capture elusive, overlooked moments, and together form an incisive and witty portrait collage of our daily lives.In spinning acts of violence into fairytales, mundane anxieties into catchy advertising jingles, and pedestrian scenes into surrealistic filmscapes, Thesen reveals to us a pair of scissors -- a double-edged sword where workaday events hold transcendent magic, and artful fantasies are born of inescapable banality. Sharon Thesen's collection brims with honesty, toughness, humour, and genius.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"Sharon Thesen is the author \u003cem\u003eThe Good Bacteria\u003c\/em\u003e, which was a finalist for the Governor General’ s Literary Award for Poetry, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and the ReLit Award, and seven previous collections of poetry. She received the Pat Lowther Memorial Award for her collection \u003cem\u003eA Pair of Scissors\u003c\/em\u003e and she has been for a finalist for the British Columbia Book Prize. She was born in Tisdale, Saskatchewan, and now lives in British Columbia, where she is a professor at University of British Columbia.","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Thesen, Sharon","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"88","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc"}
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{"id":7325024026683,"title":"Yesno","handle":"yesno","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA stunning collection of poetry by one of our most beloved and renowned poets,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eYesno\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a companion volume to the much-praised\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eUn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Anansi, 2003), and continues Dennis Lee's urgent poetic project, which is to grapple with the question of the earth's and humankind's future. But where the earlier book concentrated on the deadly impasse to which we humans have brought the planet,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eYesno\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis lighter and more playful, canvassing the possibility of hope. It explores an ethic of yesno, simultaneously embracing pessimism and hope. In the author's own words: \"Before I began\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eYesno\u003c\/em\u003e, I thought it would be a pendulum swing from\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eUn\u003c\/em\u003e, moving from bleakness to hope. But the poems kept misfiring, sounding forced. Eventually, I realized the task was more complex. Namely, to articulate a world in which the demolition derby and the possibility of living more constructively in the natural order are both real. And at once. So, not just no; not just yes; but yesno.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T09:14:42-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T09:14:42-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":1895,"available":false,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":43249777082427,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887847585","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Yesno - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":109,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887847585","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887847585.jpg?v=1736345631"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887847585.jpg?v=1736345631","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24979535036475,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.658,"height":608,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887847585.jpg?v=1736345631"},"aspect_ratio":0.658,"height":608,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887847585.jpg?v=1736345631","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA stunning collection of poetry by one of our most beloved and renowned poets,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eYesno\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a companion volume to the much-praised\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eUn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Anansi, 2003), and continues Dennis Lee's urgent poetic project, which is to grapple with the question of the earth's and humankind's future. But where the earlier book concentrated on the deadly impasse to which we humans have brought the planet,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eYesno\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis lighter and more playful, canvassing the possibility of hope. It explores an ethic of yesno, simultaneously embracing pessimism and hope. In the author's own words: \"Before I began\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eYesno\u003c\/em\u003e, I thought it would be a pendulum swing from\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eUn\u003c\/em\u003e, moving from bleakness to hope. But the poems kept misfiring, sounding forced. Eventually, I realized the task was more complex. Namely, to articulate a world in which the demolition derby and the possibility of living more constructively in the natural order are both real. And at once. So, not just no; not just yes; but yesno.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e"}
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{"id":7267108552763,"title":"Sit","handle":"sit","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNine poignant and empowering short stories from the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Breadwinner\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe seated child. With a single powerful image, Deborah Ellis draws our attention to nine children and the situations they find themselves in, often through no fault of their own. In each story, a child makes a decision and takes action, be that a tiny gesture or a life-altering choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJafar is a child laborer in a chair factory and longs to go to school. Sue sits on a swing as she and her brother wait to have a supervised visit with their father at the children’s aid society. Gretchen considers the lives of concentration camp victims during a school tour of Auschwitz. Mike survives seventy-two days of solitary as a young offender. 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The stories cross grade levels and are thematically rich while being short and extremely accessible in reading level.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“Beautifully wrought, the collection will appeal to thoughtful readers who appreciate Ellis' other globally-aware works … An excellent choice for all collections.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e, STARRED REVIEW\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Booklist, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Ellis nimbly slips into the minds of her memorable characters … and her thought-provoking collection should spark wide-ranging discussions about choice and injustice.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Every story is poignant and provocative. 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ages 3
to 6
/ grades P
to 1
The Last Two Crayons
Sienna looks forward to drawing a picture for her school’s spring art show, until she ends up with the last two crayons—dark brown and light brown.
