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  • To See the Stars

    by Jan Andrews ...
    In her deeply-affecting final novel, acclaimed children's writer and storyteller Jan Andrews gives us Edie Murphy—an indomitable and engaging heroine on the cusp of womanhood. The novel moves from Edie's remote Newfoundland outport to St. John's and finally to New York City's Lower East Side. Against the background of the history-making "Uprising" of 1909, when 20,000 garment workers went on ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Dear Canada: Winter of Peril

    by Jan Andrews ...
    Series series
    Sophie Loveridge's family is uprooted from the comfort of their home in England when her eccentric father — inspired by the new novel, Robinson Crusoe — decides to move the family to the New World so he can write an epic poem about surviving the rugged winter conditions. When the only help they have — a skillful fisherman — dies, it is up to Sophie and her mother to make sure the family survives ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Rude Stories

    by Jan Andrews ...
    Illustrated by Francis Blake ...
    Meet Mr. Mosquito, drawn from a Gypsy story. He's cantankerous and nasty enough to raise belly laughs along with the eyebrows of the polite. In a story inspired by Australian bush tales, we meet Ella and Bella, two hilarious (and flatulent) sisters. Angelina's earthy wit is memorialized in a story from Swahili tradition.The eight stories in Rude Stories have roots from Japan to Canada, from Africa ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Stories at the Door

    by Jan Andrews ...
    Illustrated by Francis Blake ...
    Jan Andrews draws on folk stories from around the world to build her newest collection of tales, rife with humor and tingling with action. Cleverly threaded together by verses describing the arrival of unbidden stories that enter boldly through the door and stay just long enough to have their say, these tales have been rendered anew by a master storyteller. In “Jesper and the Jackrabbits,” simple ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • When the Wind Came

    by Jan Andrews ...
    Illustrated by Dorothy Leung ...
    A spare and beautiful story of resilience.It’s a normal day, at first, for a girl on her family farm. But then the wind starts. It blows harder and harder and harder. Her mother grabs her baby brother. Her father opens the root cellar door. They pile in and sit in darkness. But when they emerge, their home is gone. Through a series of short sentences, many beginning with “I remember . . .,” ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • When Apples Grew Noses and White Horses Flew

    by Jan Andrews ...
    Illustrated by Dušan Petričić ...
    A USBBY Outstanding International Books Honor Book and a nominee for the 2012 Silver Birch Express Award in the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading Program and the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children AwardIn these three imaginative stories, Jan Andrews introduces us to Quebec's traditional folktale hero, Ti-Jean. He's an endearing character who is both wise and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Twelve Days of Summer

    by Jan Andrews ...
    Illustrated by Susan R. Jolliffe ...
    Patterned on the popular carol, The Twelve Days of Summer takes readers on a joyous journey into summer, from the first discovery of three eggs in a sparrow’s nest to the day when those eggs hatch. Readers will pore over the pictures, searching for that fifth bumblebee, that tenth crow, and for the thoughtfully chosen toy that turns up on each page: a parachute with the goatsbeard seeds, a fan ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Black Markers

    Edinburgh's Dark History Told Through its Cemeteries

    by Jan-Andrew Henderson ...
    Edinburgh has a unique history, darker and more unexpected than you might imagine. Fortunately, it also has a set of graveyards to match. Ancient, modern, beautiful, haunted – they are the perfect reflection of the city’s amazing past with astonishing stories of their own. Greyfriars Graveyard alone was instrumental in the creation of Darwin’s Evolutionary Theory, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Improving Primary Mathematics

    Linking Home and School

    by Jan Winter, Jane Andrews, Pamela Greenhough, Martin Hughes, Leida Salway, Wan Ching Yee ...
    Series series Improving Practice (TLRP)
    Improving Primary Mathematics provides primary teachers with practical ideas about how to bring these two worlds closer to improve children’s mathematics learning.Using a number of fascinating case studies focusing on children’s experiences of mathematics both inside and outside the classroom, the book asks:How do children use mathematics in their everyday lives?How can teachers use this knowledge ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • The Ghost That Haunted Itself

    The Story of the Mackenzie Poltergeist - The Infamous Ghoul of Greyfriars Graveyard

    by Jan-Andrew Henderson ...
    Greyfrair's Cemetery in Edinburgh has a centuries old reputation for being haunted. Its gruesome history includes use as a mass prison, headstone removal, witchcraft, bodysnatching, desecration, corpse dumping and live burial.In 1998, something new and inexplicable began occurring in the graveyard. Visitors encountered 'cold spots', strange smells and banging noises. They found themselves overcome ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Greatest Kan and Li

    Gathering the Cosmic Light

    by Mantak Chia, Andrew Jan ...
    A fully illustrated guide to the most advanced Kan and Li practice to birth the immortal spirit body and unite with the Tao• Explains how to establish the cauldron at the Heart Center to collect cosmic light, activate the Cranial and Sacral Pumps, and align the Three Triangle Forces• Details how to merge energy at the Heart Center to birth the immortal spirit body, allowing you to draw limitless ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Tai Chi Fa Jin

    Advanced Techniques for Discharging Chi Energy

    by Mantak Chia, Andrew Jan ...
    A guide to the seemingly effortless yet explosively powerful martial art techniques of Fa Jin• Explains how to collect energy within and discharge it for self-defense as well as healing• Explores how to counter the natural instinct to resist force with force and develop yielding softness through the 13 Original Movements of Tai Chi• Illustrates routines for the partner practice of “Push Hands” ... Read more

    $23.99 USD