including Better World Books which donates to literacy.

Where We Live, Kids Can Press - a book of neighborhoods featuring real children around the world.

Come, Read With Me, Orca Books : a rhyming adventure through books and fairy tales.

Ghost of the Mill House : an early read novel, Orca Book Publishers

Robert Bateman, The Boy Who Painted Nature: the picturebook biography of Canada’s foremost nature artist

Bus to The Badlands, Orca Books: an early chapter book

The Elephant Keeper, Kids Can Press: the true story of an elephant orphanage in Zambia

Birthdays Around The World, Kids Can Press: celebrate traditions from around the world

Stepping Stones, A Refugee Family's Journey, Orca Books: a story that brings awareness and raises funds for refugees

Schooldays Around the World, Kids Can Press: learn how children in many countries attend school

A Brush Full of Colour, Pajama Press: the picturebook biography of Yukon artist Ted Harrison

Families Around the World, Kids Can Press: find out how families live in different cultures

Amazing Animals, Tundra: amazing feats of nature

My School in the Rainforest, Boyds Mills Press: a photo essay of how children go to school around the world

In My Backyard, Tundra: celebrates nature from butterflies to insects, with hidden images

I Live in the North, Scholastic: life in Canada’s north in poetry format

Me & Martha Black, 189413187-8, Penumbra, 88 pages: a novel about the Yukon’s first lady with poetry by Robert Service

No Dogs Allowed, ISBN 1-894601-34-3, Chestnut: the true story of a dog in a senior’s home

Wake Up, Henry Rooster!, 1-55041-952-8, Fitzhenry & Whiteside: how does a teenage rooster wake up at dawn?

Emma at the Fair, 1-55005-126-1, Fitzhenry & Whiteside: when a chicken tries to win a medal at the Fall Fair

My Librarian is a Camel, 1-59078-093-0, Boyds Mills Press: a photo essay of unusual mobile libraries around the globe

Animal Alphabed, 1-59078-200-3, Boyds Mills Press: a rhyming dream of stuffed animals and alphabet letters

Ms. Bee’s Magical Bookcase, 1-894601-10-6, Chestnut Books: where do librarians find those amazing stories?

Wild Babies, 0-88776-627-7, Tundra: how wildlife mothers protect their babies

Emma’s Cold Day, Stoddart Kids, ISBN 0-7737-33140: a chicken doesn’t like snow

Logan’s Lake, Hodgepog, ISBN 0-9686899-7-3: how a boy helps to prevent construction from claiming wilderness

A Pacific Alphabet, Whitecap, ISBN 1-55285-264-4: an alphabetic coastal celebration

When We Go Camping, 0-88776-476-2, Tundra Books: from waking up in a tent to a campfire at night, with tracks and hidden animals

The Power of Poems, The Joy of teaching Poetry. Maupin House, 120 pages: a book for teachers

Virtual Maniac, Silly and Serious Poems for Kids. 0-929895-43-6 Maupin House: wild and quiet poems for all ages

Emma and The Coyote, Stoddart: a brave chicken stops for no one

Emma’s Eggs, Stoddart, ISBN 0-7737-2972-0: how a chicken pleases people by delivering perfect eggs

A Mountain Alphabet, Tundra Books, ISBN 0-88776-374-X: hidden letters in gorgeous mountain art

Spectacular Spiders, Pacific Edge Publishing, ISBN 1-895110-20-3: everything you never wanted to know about spiders

On The Write Track!, a guide to creative writing, Pacific Educational Press, UBC. ISBN 0-88865-086-8: a book for writers

Big Little Dog, Penumbra Press, ISBN 0-921254-466: a boy and his sled dog in the north

The R.C.M.P., KGR Learning: an educational unit on Canada’s police force

Fireweed, Burns & Morton: how a child and his pets get lost and found

Apenkinderen, Leopold Publishing: raising baby chimpanzees in a primate center

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