Deborah Kerbel

"Rhyming couplets celebrate the varied aspects of snow from a preschooler's perspective. Mixed-media collage art shows small children engaging in a range of winter activities, including skating, throwing snowballs, and making snow angels. A final page shares age-appropriate information about snow."--

"Rhyming couplets celebrate windy weather, the sensory experience of wind, and the activities it makes possible from a preschooler's perspective. Mixed-media collage art shows young children engaging in outdoor activities, including scattering milkweed seeds, spinning pinwheels, flying kites, and struggling against a strong wind. A final page includes age-appropriate STEM activities related to wind."--

Follow the wordless journey of a maple seed, sometimes called a maple key or whirligig, as it helicopters away from its parent tree and floats across a city on the autumn wind.

"This STEM-based nonfiction illustrated picture book introduces readers to several well-known animal and insect endlings, the last known survivors of a species, while discussing the mass extinction crisis facing our planet and what kids can do to make a difference."--

"Young Juno the sled dog pup plays on the Arctic tundra with her boy. Under the midnight sun, Juno is too restless to sleep and goes on a nighttime adventure of her own. When she returns to find a polar bear near the door she left open, Juno must summon all her courage to save her boy and send the bear on its way."--

"A young child and their dog delight in making noise in this board book comprised of only onomatopoeias."--

"A young girl, anxious about her new surroundings, finds that a pack of friendly dogs has moved into her mind. In an effort to allay their restlessness, the girl begins to draw them--everywhere. Her constant doodling and daydreaming worries her grandmother, teacher and tutor, who want the girl to focus on her schoolwork. But the dogs bring the girl comfort--and they maybe even come to her rescue one night after she gets lost and hides in a neighbour's...

"Finch's family is falling apart, and her best friend has dropped her. She's stuck with the meanest teacher in town, and at home her brother is always with his awful friend Matt. One day, Finch lets out her frustration with a graffiti message in a school bathroom stall. When she returns the next day, she's surprised to find her message has been answered! Suddenly Finch doesn't feel so alone anymore, and a friendship begins. But her new friend is secretive...

"One hundred years ago, juvenile diabetes was a death sentence for millions of people around the world, most of them children. this book tells the story the discovery of insulin, a treatment for this disease and one of the most impactful milestones in medical science. Frederick Banting was a young doctor who was haunted by the memories of the diabetic children he'd treated at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. One night, though, he was struck by...

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