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Norbert Nipkin
Author: Robert McConnellNorbert Nipkin and the Magic Riddle Stone
Author: Robert McConnellPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 0929141792
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Norbert and Grog's adventures together, begun in Norbert Nipkin, continue! Scolded and scoffed at by their parents who refuse to believe that the pair have become friends, they set off alone to find and solve the final mystery of the Magic Riddle Stone. Humor and suspence combine to hold the reader spellbound until the adventure's dramatic conclusion. This edition includes a separate, new and never before printed illustration by the artist, Steve Pilcher, the art director of Skrek 2. Suitable for framing.
Norbert Nipkin
Author: Robert McConnellPublisher: Napoleon and Company
ISBN: 9781894917292
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
This perennially best-selling classic is your passport into the magic realm of Nipkins. Irresistible rhymes and mood-setting paintings introduce Norbert, a young Nipkin, who is warned by his nanny about the terrible cave-dwelling giants called Zlogs. When Norbert is captured by a young Zlog named Grog, he uses the only defense he can muster - his voice. After getting over his shock that Nipkins can talk, Grog listens to and even protects Norbert in what is the beginning of a fast friendship. The characters are endearing, the setting is inventive, the effect magical. Discover for yourself what has already enchanted tens of thousands of children.
Sarah's Secret
Author: Robert McConnellPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 0929141121
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
possible, without the help of her older brother. When she sees her snowman, Max, come to life in a Christmas Eve frolic, her family refuses to believe her story.
The Queen who Stole the Sky
Author: Jennifer GarrettPublisher: Richmond Hill, Ont. : North Winds Press
ISBN: 9780590715249
Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Clay Girl
Author: Tucker, HeatherPublisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1770909176
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
A stunning and lyrical debut novel Vincent Appleton smiles at his daughters, raises a gun, and blows off his head. For the Appleton sisters, life had unravelled many times before. This time it explodes. Eight-year-old Hariet, known to all as Ari, is dispatched to Cape Breton and her Aunt Mary, who is purported to eat little girls. But Mary and her partner, Nia, offer an unexpected refuge to Ari and her steadfast companion, Jasper, an imaginary seahorse. Yet the respite does not last, and Ari is torn from her aunts and forced back to her twisted mother and fractured sisters. Her new stepfather, Len, and his family offer hope, but as Ari grows to adore them, sheÍs severed violently from them too, when her mother moves in with the brutal Dick Irwin. Through the sexual revolution and drug culture of the 1960s, Ari struggles with her fatherÍs legacy and her motherÍs addictions, testing limits with substances that numb and men who show her kindness. Ari spins through a chaotic decade of loss and love, the devilish and divine, with wit, tenacity, and the astonishing balance unique to seahorses. The Clay Girl is a beautiful tour de force about a child sculpted by kindness, cruelty, and the extraordinary power of imagination, and her families „ the one sheÍs born in to and the one she creates.
Perfect Pals
Author: Robert McConnellPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459716760
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Candy, Josie and Buddy are three canine friends whose days are filled with fun and friendship at the local park. But their happy days are threatened when two bullies named Riff and Raff drive them from their park, perhaps for good. When the three timid friends return, unable to keep themselves away from their favourite spot, the bullies are determined to do them serious harm. This book teaches a valuable lesson that every child should learn, that if good friends stand together, bullies soon find out that they’re not as tough as they thought.
Wee Folk In Literature Series Gr. 3-5
Author: Publisher: On The Mark Press
ISBN: 1770722041
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Sarah's Secret
Author: Robert McConnellPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459717090
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
In this Christmas classic, six-year-old Sarah is determined to make the very best snowman possible, without the help of her older brother. When she sees her snowman, Max, come to life in a Christmas Eve frolic, her family refuses to believe her story. Although Sarah thinks she has proof that it was not all a dream, she decides in the end to keep the knowlege of her snowman friend as her very own special secret.
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