New Releases by Jean Little

One by one, the baby animals are born on the farm, each making another barnyard mother yearn for a baby of her own. A warm-hearted, gently humorous story about a mother''s love.

"I can hardly bear to look at Fanny. She is grey and her breath rasps and gurgles and wheezes. She has lost pounds. Her face is all hollow and a dark colour. A bluish grey. That is one of the symptoms of this Flu, Aunt told us. Nobody is saying the word, but we all know. So many have died, but not my Fan. I will not leave her no matter what anyone says." Fee uses her diary to record all of her fears when the Spanish Flu rages through Toronto. It comforts her when she almost loses her twin sister -- and when it actually takes their older sister Jemma.

In a stable in Bethlehem, five animals -- a donkey, a camel, a cat, a sheep and a puppy; scared, tell how they got there. When the soldiers of King Herod come seek Jesus, the puppy comes out of hiding just in time to prevent the stable-boy of tell them where they could find Mary and Joseph. A touching story Christmas tells how a lost puppy freedom to save the child Jesus.

Seeing-eye pup, Shakespeare, conquered many fears in Rescue Pup. Now he is back, about to be matched up with a blind boy, ready to begin his working life. Tim is enraged by his blindness and wants nothing to do with a guide dog. But he is no match for Shakespeare.

A wise, tender, and funny summer adventure story from one of Canada''s most beloved writers for children. On a flight from Vancouver to Toronto, two girls meet, forming an unlikely friendship. Tall, athletic Samantha is going to spend the summer with a family friend while her father is in South America. Alexis, a shy girl who likes books, is being sent to a horse farm to learn how to ride while her mother and stepfather are travelling in Australia. As they talk, Sam and Alex realize they''d each rather be doing what the other is: Sam''s elderly hostess runs a bookshop, and the family Alex is staying with is young and boisterous. By the time their flight lands in Toronto, the girls have hatched their plot. They''re going to trade places for the summer. After all, the people they''re going to visit have never met them, and their own parents are far away and hard to contact. But will they manage to pull it off? For how long? And with what consequences?

First published: Markham, Ont.: Viking Kestrel, 1986.

Pet wanted Max wants a furry pet. Emma wants a pet too, but she''s allergic to animals with fur. When Emma finds the perfect animal, will Max like his sister''s strange pet?

Nell makes two wishes on her birthday, but the next day they show little sign of coming true. Everyone in her household is busy and wants her out from underfoot and no one is willing to help her find her lost cat. In the end she finds more than a cat and she makes her own wishes come true with the help of a row of tall, bright, smiling sunflowers.

Die Tiere im Stall reden nur noch von Weihnachten - und davon, wie ihre Ur-Ur-Ur-Großeltern einem besonderen Kind in einem Stall vor vielen, vielen Jahren geholfen haben. Nur das kleine Schwein Brunhilde, genannt Bruni, weiß nicht, um was es geht, hat nichts zu erzählen, hatte keine Verwandten im Stall von Betlehem. "Sieh es ein", sagen die anderen Tiere, "das ist nichts für Schweine!" So beginnt Brunis Flucht ganz allein hinaus in die frostige Winternacht, an deren Ende Schwein, Ochs'', Esel und Menschen das Wunder der Weihnacht etwas besser verstehen. Manche der Bilder lassen die Leser beim ersten Hinsehen frieren, aber bald schon wird der Glanz und die sanfte Wärme der Tier-Weihnacht sie einhüllen.

N’oublie surtout pas, Pétunia, que, sans l’âne, l’enfant n’aurait pu arriver à Bethléem, que, sans la vache qui a offert sa mangeoire, il n’aurait pas eu de couche et que, sans l’agneau, il n’aurait pu se couvrir d’une douce toison pour se tenir au chaud! Et Noël n’existerait pas! Et les cochons, alors? Pétunia quitte l’étable, lourde de peine : elle ne reviendra jamais! Elle brave la tempête; il fait si froid! Mais voilà qu’elle aperçoit une femme qui serre son enfant tout contre elle et qui avance péniblement contre le vent. Aurait-elle besoin d’un endroit chaud et douillet pour se reposer? N’écoutant que son courage, Pétunia la guide jusqu’à l’étable, mais les animaux sont réticents à réconforter un bébé ordinaire, alors que leurs ancêtres, eux, avait pris soin de l’enfant Jésus lui-même! C’est à Pétunia de montrer aux animaux qu’aucun bébé n’est ordinaire, et c''est aux animaux de montrer à Pétunia que, sans elle, ils n’auraient jamais compris le vrai sens de la fête de Noël.

Dickon wasn''t happy in his old home or his old school. He hopes that in his new neighborhood he will meet children who never knew his old, hyper self, who will like him for who he is now. And he hopes for a dog of his own. Dickon''s mother calls him Birdie. She feeds him milk from a teddy bear mug. She worries if he''s out of her sight for a moment and she knows how filthy and vicious dogs can be. Dickon is delighted to discover that the Humane Society is right on the other side of the fence behind the new house, but only by disobeying his mother will he ever get close to a real dog.

Emma has always wanted a little brother. Now her family is adopting Max, and Emma is sure he will be the best brother ever. But Max has his own ideas. He thinks sisters are yucky, and that Emma is the yuckiest! Is this really what having a brother is all about? In Jean Little''s warmhearted, perceptive story about adoption, Emma learns that there is more to having a little brother than she had ever guessed -- and that in order to get the brother she wants, she must first learn to be the sister he needs.

With the help of her new friend who has magic boots just like her own, Emma overcomes her shyness and no longer hates reading out loud in school.

Abandoned by their mother, Willow and Twig travel across Canada to live with their grandmother.

Cumulative rhyming tale of a man who swallows a flea, a piranha, and even a wapiti, while his dog warns that his eating habits will be the death of him.

seems young Elspet Mary has known nothing but loss. First her mother died, then her father, leaving her in the care if her aunt and uncle. With them, she has moved from one lonely Scottish village to another, and now, just as she is beginning to feel at home, she is being torn away again, to move to rugged Upper Canada. What awaits her in the strange new land? What will become of her grandmother, left behind in Scotland, and her beloved cat? Will she finally find a place to call home, a place where she belongs? Told in Jean Little''s inimitable voice, this moving coming-of-age story explores loss, loneliness and love-and the universal search for a place to belong.

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Flora Gauld, born in Taiwan of missionary parents, comes to live in Canada and is left with her Aunt Jen when her parents return to Taiwan.

Not only does Meg Copeland have to share a room with her handicapped sister, Sally, she even feels out of place with the rest of her family. And to make it worse, she''s struggling in school and probably won''t move on to the next grade. She''s sure she''s going to be a total failure.

Gruntle decides to leave the city to be a "real" pig like her grandfather, but she discovers that rolling in muck and eating swill and living without any books to read are not for her.

Includes news releases, newsletters, invitations, programs, citation, 2 b&w convocation photographs of J. Little, and her convocation address "Becoming a Real Pig"

Two sets of sisters learn about family relationships during a vacation they share at a beach cottage.

When Emily''s parents move to an eighteen-room house so that her four unpredictable cousins can live with them, life for Emily, an only child, is never again the same.

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