Scot Ritchie
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Through colorful illustrations and fun facts, young readers will learn: The essential parts of buildings, such as foundations, beams and columns -- How structures are made in nature -- What makes structures strong -- How to create a building of their own.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"This gentle and engaging introduction to physical and health education will help children to understand how keeping their bodies and minds healthy can enhance their lives. In this fifth book in the series, the five friends are members of their school's swim team and are training for an upcoming meet. Along the way, they learn about: the benefits of physical fitness, setting goals, teamwork, safety, coping skills, respect for others, nutrition as...
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The book opens with Nick, Yulee, Pedro, Sally and Martin -- the five friends from Follow That Map! (2009), Look at That Building! (2011) and Look Where We Live! (2015) - about set off for Yulee's Aunt Sara's farm for some apple-picking. Their plan is to pick some apples to use in a dessert they will take to their neighborhood's potluck celebrating the fall harvest. While on their agricultural adventure, they discover how food is grown and produced...
Author
Series
Exploring our community volume 6
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Creative nonfiction picture book about five friends who help their neighbor look after his backyard beehive, learning how important it is to keep bee populations strong and healthy. Explores bee feeding behavior, pollination, bee colonies, threats to bee populations, and attracting bees in urban areas. Includes glossary and tips for helping bees thrive.
"A gentle and engaging look at honeybees and how they live in urban spaces. In this sixth book...
Author
Publisher
Harbour Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A free-spirited picture book with a message about the importance of wild spaces. Lilliana, a young nature lover, adores chorus frogs. Her room is already full of frog posters and toys but one night as she listens to frogs singing, she decides to bring home some real, live frogs. Chorus frogs are hard to find and catch, but that won't stop Lilliana! Oh dear. Chorus frogs are very small and very fast and very loud. The frogs have escaped! But Lilliana,...
Author
Series
Exploring our community volume 7
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In the seventh book in the Exploring Our Community series, the five friends learn all about how to reduce plastic pollution. It's Nick's birthday, and he wants to celebrate by challenging his friends to a No Plastics Day. While going a whole day without using single-use plastic, the five friends learn about how much plastic surrounds us in our daily lives; the garbage patch gyres in the oceans; plastic in our food chain; what plastic is made of (science...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"It's a busy morning in the park. All along the boulevard, families are picnicking and people are napping, playing checkers and reading on the grass. But Owen and his dad are hard at work, raking and mowing the grass. And today, Owen gets to do the best job all on his own. With his dad's encouragement, Owen gathers his courage and goes around to everyone in the park. He tells the families, the checkers players and the readers what he has to do, and...
10) Dinos driving
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Eight dinosaurs are humorously depicted in vehicles chosen to suit their habits or anatomy. Back matter includes a relevant fact about each dinosaur, as well as age-appropriate enrichment activities."--
11) Zander stays
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Zander the goose decides not to go south for the winter with the rest of his flock. Having to adapt to his new snowy environment, Zander asks for advice from forest animals. When Zander is about to give up, a little girl finds him and brings him home. Finally finding a perfect “adaptation” in the little girl's house, Zander spends the winter with his new friend. When the other geese return, they humorously move into the house as well."--
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