Juvenile Fiction, Imagination & Play
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How My House Felt
by Linda M. Ambrose
A grandmother looks back at the story of the house where she grew up, remembering what it was like to live there over the years. She imagines that the house felt what she felt when she was small. Happy and sad moments, pleasures and fears, joys...
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The Dusty Cat
by Jaimie Clarke
Dusty the cat was a dusty cat. People often stared at her and made rude comments about how dusty she was. Sawyer and his mom, Dusty’s family, loved her anyway and told her she was special. One day Dusty had a big sneeze, and her dust turned into...
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The Old Mango Tree
by Lisa Fay
The Old Mango Tree stands tall and strong, It has witnessed the changing seasons and the lives that have passed beneath its branches. Along the way, it gathered a diverse and cherished group of friends. Among them is Kairi, a precocious and...
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Shimmerlaroos and The Great Kookenama
by Jack Smalley
An adventure story with quirky characters and strange habits. A band of buddies go on a quest for the ultimate meal and in the process find new friends. This story is about the use of our senses. How we look at our world with sight, touch, taste,...
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Where Is My Sock?
by Jennifer Brown
Much to the dismay of a wee child, Chaussette—a small, soft, and striped sock—doesn't come back from the laundry one day. But what happens to our favourite socks when they disappear? Chaussette discovers the answer to that mystery: the world of...
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Mabel's Little House in the Park
by Carol Gall
Mabel is a little girl with a big imagination, and there’s one thing she’s always wondered about—the old house in the park with its shutters tightly closed. What could be inside? Every time she passes by, Mabel dreams of secret rooms and...
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Spaghetti Steve
by Tasha Turko
Steve loves spaghetti. Steve loves the snow. Steve loves eating spaghetti in the snow! One day a green snowflake that looks like spaghetti noodles lands on Steve’s glove. Of course, he eats it—and is instantly transformed into a superhero....
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Alex and Little Niko
by Jill Marie Drury
"The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along the lines of excellence." Athens is the birthplace of democracy and a city of wisdom and innovation. It has an amazing culture combining new and ancient sites to...
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I Wear Pajamas All Day Long
by Tom Scanlan
I wish for just one day I could do things my own way… What would you do if you got to do things your way? Would you read books upside down or crawl up a slide? Would you howl at the moon or wear a bowl on your head? Kids often do silly things...
