Cheyenne Shluffmuffin thinks her brother Wally is too pessimistic. She thinks he ought to focus on what is good in their lives. Wally thinks Cheyenne’s crazy. The two kids are on the run from giant ants bent on using them to take over the world, and their dad, who drowned in a [...]
Young Will Trenom is used to crazy. He lives with his rather less-than-normal parents in a bed and breakfast run by Mrs. D and her game-show addicted husband. But even Will cannot understand why someone would want to move into a run-down old cottage that stands in the middle of a cemetery, particularly [...]
“I’m never, ever, not in a million trillion gazillion years going to sleep,” Penelope announces when her father tucks her into bed. Penelope is afraid of monsters and her bedroom seems to be full of them! Gnomes in her dresser drawers, trolls in her closet, and giants under her bed. When her [...]
You love it; so do I. Robert Munsch’s The Paper Bag Princess is one of the great classics of Canadian children’s literature. This fairytale about Princess Elizabeth who sets off to find and rescue Prince Ronald, after a dragon destroys her castle and carries away the prince, has been read and enjoyed by [...]
9-year-old Jeremy really wants a pet, but his parents are concerned that he isn’t old enough to look after one properly. Jeremy decides to offer pet-sitting services, so that he can demonstrate just how responsible he can be.
Soon friends and neighbours are dropping off their animals, and Jeremy is learning that caring for pets, [...]
TJ knows nothing about football, but he does know that he’s no good at team sports, so he’s surprised when he gets a phone call telling him when to show up for the first football practice of the season. Weirder still, he learns that his best friend Seymour, who’s a got a terrific head [...]
Imagine waking up one day to find you have become a hound. This is exactly what happens to Barry one Monday morning. Oh, he looks pretty much the same as usual on the outside, but he’s definitely more canine than human on the inside. Barry suddenly finds smells exciting – the grosser, [...]
