Cybèle Young
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Uses the story of someone stealing a Queen's shadow at a ball to illustrate the different types of vision that various animals have, including chameleons, sharks, lancehead snakes, dragonflies, pigeons, and sea urchins.
2) Nancy knows
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Language
English
Description
Nancy the elephant remembers all kinds of things in all kinds of ways, but now she knows she has forgotten something. But what could it be?
4) A few bites
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When her brother Ferdie would rather play than eat, Viola spins a tale about how dinosaurs ate broccoli to escape predators and carrots provide alien super-vision, an effort repaid when Viola is tired and Ferdie presents a surprise.
5) Ten birds
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Ten birds are trying to figure out how to get to the other side of the river. Will the simplest solution be the best?
6) A few blocks
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Ferdie doesn't want to go to school, but go to school he must, and fortunately his imaginative older sister Viola paves the way--until it's Ferdie's turn to help his sister.
8) Ten Birds
Author
Language
English
Description
A clever counting book and fable unlike any other and winner of the 2011 Governor General's Award for Illustration. Ten birds are trying to figure out how to get to the other side of the river. The bird they call 'Brilliant' devises a pair of stilts. The bird they call 'Highly Satisfactory' engineers a raft. One by one, nine resourceful birds make the crossing until a single bird is left behind – the one they call 'Needs Improvement.' This bird's...
