New Releases by Jean Little

When Claire and Jess go to the doctor for shots, Jess is the brave one.

As the world around her braces itself for World War II, a young Canadian girl with impaired vision prepares to begin public high school.

An autobiography dealing with the author''s career as a writer, her blindness, and her guide dog Zephyr.

Visually impaired from birth, Jean Little constantly faced new difficulties. Encouraged by her parents she began to write. She now is one of Canada''s leading children''s authors.

Also includes col. photocopies of book covers "His Banner Over Me" and "Mine For Keeps"

Written with vivid recall of emotions and events, Little''s autobiography beginswith her early childhood in Taiwan and concludes with the acceptance for publication of her early novel.

With the help of his new friend, Tess, Jeremy deals with the imminent death of his father from cancer.

When the family moves from Germany to Canada in the 1930''s, a nine-year-old girl discovers the reason for her awkwardness and apparent inability to do anything right.

Anna has always been the clumsy one in the family. Somehow she can never do anything right! She bumps into tables, and she can''t read the blackboard at her school. Her perfect brothers and sisters call her "Awkward Anna." When Papa announces that the family is moving from Germany to Canada, Anna''s heart sinks. How can she learn English when she can''t even read German? Nothing could be worse than this! But when the Soldens arrive in Canada, Anna learns that there is a reason for her clumsiness. And suddenly, wonderfully, her whole world begins to change.

Life of Dorothy Jean (Little) Ellis from her birth in Indianapolis, Indiana to her place of residence in Peoria, Illinois in 1972.

Product of a Jewish-Protestant marriage, Kate finds her dilemma over her religious leanings threatening her relationship with her best friend.

Forty poems, including ones about dogs, nature, love, oneself, and childhood.

When Mother is hospitalized, everyone in the Ross household must finally face the long ignored problem that seven-year-old James is not a baby, a slow learner, or lazy, but mentally retarded.

Another poignant story about a different sort of handicap.