A beautiful gift edition of Margaret Wise Brown's classic!This wonderful collection of bunny stories and poems, by the author of Goodnight Moon, has been reissued for a new generation in a beautiful hardcover edition. Margaret Wise Brown’s witty writing, featuring bunnies in all seasons, is brought to life with lush, ornamental paintings by Caldecott Medalist Leonard Weisgard. This deluxe picture book will be a special Easter gift for a child, or any fan o...

A Golden classic about a bunny—and a little duck that is about to hatch! A perfect gift for your child on Easter.Once there was a little bunny. He was all alone. One day he found an egg. He could hear something moving inside the egg. What was it?The tale of a bunny's discovery of a mysterious egg--a Big Golden Book beloved by generations--is available for the first time in the Little Golden Book line, with its original illustrations by Caldecott Medalist Le...

Everywhere you go you see vanity plates. The best of them are those that make you think and then reward you with a good laugh. Now there is a book that captures all the fun and excitement of vanity plates from across North America.Inside The Way Cool License Plate Book you'll find plates that show how their owners feel about the cars they drive (or wish they drove!), the work they do, the sports they play and the dreams they have.This book is the perfect co...

An Officer of the Order of Canada, Chevalier of France’s Order of Arts and Letters, and recipient of the Order of Ontario, painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, and author, Charles Pachter is one of Canada’s best-loved and most celebrated artists.Pachter is an artist with an astonishing range. His work is witty, thoughtful, moving, and personal. Many works, like Queen on Moose, The Painted Flag, and Hockey Knights in Canada, have achie...

Q: Why did the shark spit out the clown? A: Because he tasted funny! The first in a series of silly joke books written and compiled by Scott Allen, 101 Short & Hilarious Jokes For Kids contains page after page of crazy punchlines that will keep kids giggling for hours.  Categories include Animals; Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner; Everyday People; Monsters, Witches, and Ghosts; and Games and Sports.  The book contains whimsical illustrations by Michelle Dimuzio. ...

The legendary Canadian book editor presents this "remarkable, four-decade romp through the back rooms of publishing" ( Toronto Sun).Scottish-born Douglas Gibson was drawn to Canada by the writing of Stephen Leacock—and eventually made his way across the Atlantic to find a job in book publishing, where he edited a biography of none other than Leacock. But over the decades, his stellar career would lead him to work with many more of the country's leading lit...

Grab that magic wand! This popular deck of easy-to-perform magic tricks and kid-friendly sleights of hand has been updated with new activities and illustrations.

From Lisa Birnbach, the author of The Official Preppy Handbook, comes True Prep, which looks at how the old guard of natural-fiber-loving, dog-worshipping, G&T-soaked preppies adapts to the new order of the Internet, cell phones, rehab, political correctness, reality TV, and . . . polar fleece.

Canada is a country rich in stories, and few take as much joy as Douglas Gibson in discovering them. As one of the country’s leading editors and publishers for 40 years, he coaxed modern classics out of some of Canada’s finest minds, and then took to telling his own stories in his first memoir, Stories About Storytellers.Gibson turned his memoir into a one-man stage show that eventually played almost 100 times, in all ten provinces, from coast to coast. As a literary touri...

**"A startling tale of ambition, creativity, fame, and ultimately tragedy. This is a terrific book." —Jon MeachamThe New York Times bestselling author of Deluxe and Fashionopolis chronicles the making and unmaking of two of the greatest fashion designers of our time**In the mid-1990s, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen exploded onto a fashion scene that was in an artistic and economic rut. Their daring visions shook the establishment out of its b...

This lovely book is perfect for sharing with little ones, aged 2 to 7, who will delight in helping to tell these endearing Christmas stories themselves. In The Christmas Mice two little mice help Santa Claus deliver presents that have fallen from his sleigh. In The Smallest Christmas Tree everyone is buying big trees apart from Mrs Angel who lives in a tiny cottage. Luckily the Christmas tree man takes pity on her and gives her a little tree to plant in her garden. Meet the Boy Who Stayed ...

In this second installment of the bestselling Canadian Heroines series, author Merna Forster brings together 100 more incredible stories of great characters and wonderful images. Meet famous and forgotten women in fields such as science, sport, politics, war and peace, and arts and entertainment, including the original Degrassi kids, Captain Kool, hockey star Hilda Ranscombe, and the woman dubbed "the atomic mosquito." This book is full of amazing facts and trivia about extraordinary women...