Books

We Are Family is a welcome wandering through all the together times that families have. Through illness and health, in celebration and disappointme...

Journey through alphabet letters with busy vehicles! From airplanes and excavators to kayaks and Zambonies, there's a different vehicle to explore ...

From the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Squirrels comes a delightful (and educational) cross-Canada adventure, squirrel-style! From the c...

Whether you call it home or are just here to visit, Nova Scotia welcomes you with campfire storytelling, blueberry fields, and rocky beaches. With ...

It’s a hot summer day and Gary is hungry. The beach is packed with people…and packed with people’s lunches. Though he’s been known to eat everythin...

This box set collection will introduce children to where they live or visit in Nova Scotia. With enchanting illustrations and a gentle writing styl...

Who will this egg become? From the creators of our best-selling Whose Poop Is That? and Whose Footprint Is That? comes another guess-who-I-am book...

The newest book in the Little Explorers series shows young readers how to garden everything from flowers to veggies — and offers tips and tricks fo...

This series is such a delight! Through a hole in the front cover you’ll spy a bee is buzzing inside a flower.  Turn the pages of this bright and l...

This board book highlights the creative contributions of female artists from the original bestseller and with Rachel Ignotofsky's signature illustr...

Author Judy Dudar and Illustrator Richard Rudicki bring Mandy and her Aunt Carla to White Point Beach where bunnies are at play.

Discover the world around you in repeat pattern! Small poetic fragments bring playfulness and conversation about what you will see and do!  An illu...

Count and slide with the funny things that go! Introduce early counting skills with the built-in abacus and detailed vehicle counters, as you disco...

It snowed, it snowed! It snowed last night! Based on the popular song from JUNO Award-winning musician Meaghan Smith, It Snowed captures the heartw...

Hold on to all of your hats at once for this special collection of Jon Klassen’s celebrated hat trilogy.The bear’s hat is gone, and he wants it bac...

From morning to night, loads of fun and furry friends are waiting to be found in this colorful depiction of a very busy day for a family in the c...

Is all sand made the same? Can porcupines shoot their spines? Do millipedes really have one thousand feet? Naturalist and artist Peggy Kochanoff an...

The bestselling series that began with Tree: A Peek-Through Picture Book now adds an elaborate and beautiful children's book with peek-through hole...

The celebrated holiday song from multi-talented and multiple-award-winning Halifax-based roots musician David Myles available as a bright and fun c...

Here comes the Rock From the Sky, a hilarious play on the workings of friendship, fate, shared future visions and that funny feeling of something b...

Do you realize the English language is noun-based, referring to people, places, and things? Jujijk, an illustrated bilingual guide to bugs and inse...

Puffin Circus 1 2 3, how many puffins do you see? One of the collective nouns for a group of puffins is “a circus”—how could picture book maker Lor...

Put together the mix up of board games and flipping "pages" plus attached playing dice and you'll have hours of fun. There's so much fun when you h...

Harsh words, disagreements, and shouting can cause friendships to bend and sometime break. Readers will enjoy Britta Teckentrup's highly engaging p...

Celebrate the power of love and friendship with Britta Teckentrup's peek through pages book.  Each of us is wonderful and special on our own. But w...

Begin important conversations with young children in an informed, safe, and supported way. Developed by experts in the fields of early childhood an...

Why do dogs hate thunder? Is every snowflake really different? Where does wind come from? Naturalist and artist Peggy Kochanoff answers these quest...

Why are some grey squirrels black? Does goldenrod cause hay fever?Answering these questions and more Naturalist and artist Peggy Kochanoff answers ...

Counting on Community is Innosanto Nagara’s follow-up to the ABC book, A is for Activist.  Counting up from one stuffed piñata to ten hefty hens–...

This lovely paperback edition of the award-winning hide and seek picture book allows your child to explore the wild animals of winter. An excerpt o...

Curious questions always arise when you’re at the beach! Being a beach detective is about looking for the answers of questions such as: Can anythin...

Gracie has a nice, comfortable life in the Halifax Public Gardens. Her days are full of swimming in lakes and fountains, napping in bushes, and gob...

“It’s a rainy day but we still want to play, so let’s see what kind of fun we can find!” Follow the same lovable characters from Beach Day on the I...

"Out on the trail, and what do I see?" This gently rhyming picture book takes young ones on a walk through nature—discovering the ocean, a brook, c...

The newest book in the Little Explorers series takes young readers from the seashore to the ocean floor, finding fascinating plants and animals and...

This beautiful collector's edition of three Sheree Fitch-tastic tales with illustrations from Nova Scotia based illustrator Sydney Smith will delig...

A delightful board book for toddlers and adults to have fun experimenting with words to create funny new ones. Built on child-based wordplay, follo...

This book is gorgeous! Featuring a lavishly illustrated collection of 366 nature poems — it's an invite to enjoy a poem every day of a year. Filled...

A sweet story with the characters desperate to find a solution to that most common bookish problem: too many books! With a sorrowful look at that b...

On a very Random Islandin the North Atlantic Sea,some very Ramndomanimalsare hiding in the trees...  In this delightful nonsense poem, Ashley Fayth...

Why is that tree lumpy?How do insects stay alive in the winter? What are tides, anyway?In Be a Wilderness Detective, biologist and artist Peggy Koc...

A story that poignantly portrays the life of Gyo Fujikawa, a groundbreaking hero in the fight for racial diversity in picture books. It's time for ...

Local Author and yoga teacher, Leanne Whiting, shares that a tree demonstrates practices of movement, awareness, and empathy with himself and the ...

A shy little girl goes on a magical underwater adventure filled with adorable mermaids, silly sea creatures, games with new friends and wonderful s...

Meet Herb, a dragon who knows how to stay true to his values even in the stickiest of situations. When he is captured by the castle's knights in ar...

Happy memories sparkle in this journey through poet Shauntay Grant’s childhood visits to North Preston, Nova Scotia. Her words bring to life the s...

In this classic children’s book, a girl wakes up in the middle of the night and wants some cake. To reach the refrigerator, she has to tiptoe past...

  A riotous, quirky nonsense-poetry alphabet with a focus on literacy featuring bright and silly illustrations of a diverse cast of characters. A V...