Wake up, trucks! Let’s rise and shine. Honk your horns – it’s trucking time! Follow the trusty truck crew to the construction site. There are pits to dig, houses to build and roads to roll! Hold on to your hard hats – it's going to be a busy day!
Working together as a team is the best way to get a job done quickly and right. It's forklift Axel’s first day on the construction site, and he wants to show all the other trucks just how good he is. He swaggers and sways, he spins and dashes. The more he tries to help, the more things go wrong. When he apologizes, all the other trucks gather around to show him how they all work together to get the job done.
Flicker and her friends discover how helping others can be fun. Queen Bee can't stop sneezing, so she won't be able to oversee the pollination of all the fruit and vegetables in the garden this year. Not only does this mean there won't be a Garden Party, it also means there won't be any yummy food. Flicker and her friends help save the party--and the food.
Digby and his friends learn that there's more to life than getting the job done. Digby and his coworkers work from dawn to dusk. The work is hard, it's hot, and they face deadlines to get each job done. But, one day, Digby decides it's time to have some fun. He starts to dance, and soon all the other trucks join in. A raucous and joyous story of a very different kind of construction site.
It was 1925 and the world was in a diptheria pandemic. The town of Nome, Alaska, needed the serum to save its children but there was only one way to get there: dog sled. Balto and Togo, two Siberian huskies, were part of the relay race that pushed through below-freezing temperatures and a blizzard to bring the serum to Nome.
Flicker shows it's important to look out for the ones you care about. Flicker's twin younger brother and sister, Zip and Flare, want to play with Flicker and her friends. Flicker explains how to play hide-and-seek, but the little ones just can't seem to get it right. Flicker is a good big sister and makes up a new name for the game that they want to play, and everyone enjoys the new game even more.
Arabella, the first spider in space, explains what her trip was like.
A biography of the woman astrophysicist who discovered pulsars.
The story of Beautiful Jim, the horse who really could read, write, and do math, told in his own words.
A serious book is black-and-white, and it informs the reader. So why are a donkey in a flowered hat, a laughing zebra, a hissing snake, a marching penguin and cavorting monkeys in this book? Join the fun as the animals take control, effortlessly and with great style and humour, in this new picture book that is both very silly and very sophisticated, to be enjoyed by all ages . . .
