When the music of a banjo stirs the soul of wealthy, cultivated young Jeremiah he is determined to learn how to play it -- even if he has to make one himself.

These are the tales of the unsung people who helped to build Canada -- the farmers, hockey players, bricklayers, fisherman, fireman and their families.

A madcap shaggy-dog story that makes delightful comic sport of people's readiness to misread a situation and to overreact wildly.

When his family rents out part of their house to Mr. Karp, young Randolph is astonished to learn that this man is a collector of water -- historically significant samples that he keeps in glass containers, each one carefully labeled.

Jailed for writing "The government is unfair to mice!" in his spinach, Ned Mouse comes up with a daring escape plan.

The sequel to Travels With My Family takes place in a village in southern France, where Charlie and his brother make some new friends, see the running of the bulls and find other adventures large and small.

This moving book, written in the voice of a young child, is based on true stories told to the author by her friend Georgia Salois, a Metis whose people lived with the Blackfeet Nation in Montana.

This sweetly whimsical book describes a little boy who falls from his bicycle and crashes into the sky. Jorge Lujan's nonsense rhymes and Piet Grobler's illustrations are a delightfully playful treat for eyes and ears.

Three cheery stories about an intrepid and curious seven-year-old.

When soldiers come and take his friend Daniel's father away, things suddenly become much more complicated for Pedro, a situation all too familiar to children around the world.