Books with author Hazel Hutchins

Yancy and Bear are back! This lovable twosome is as engaging, and just as busy, as in Yancy & Bear. Bear decides it's his birthday again, and therefore time to change places (birthdays work differently for Bear than they do for Yancy.) However, their celebrations are dampened by a downpour, and since Grandfather can't plant his garden he takes the pair to play at the museum. These two, as usual, know how to thoroughly enjoy themselves wherever they are, but when they get home the rain stops and they can plant their precious flowers -- perhaps the nicest part of the day, after all.

Another charming rhyming picture book from the celebrated team of Hazel Hutchins and Ruth Ohi. Jeremy tries to hide among the many toy monsters in his bedroom. But when his father recognizes him, they begin a lovingly simple and repetitious game of verbal hide-and-seek. "If I became a moss green frog Beside a singing creek, Like every other moss green frog That you might ever meet -- If I became a moss green frog, Would you know me then?" "I'd know you anywhere," said his father. Jeremy's playful imagination skips through other possible disguises and hideaways: an octopus beneath the ocean deep; a sheep upon a mountainside; a cloud drifting high above; a single blade of grass in the yard below; a monster dressed in monster clothes. After each poetic question Jeremy's father replies reassuringly, "I'd know you." And Jeremy laughs and says, "I'd know you too." Warm, soft watercolor illustrations depict with gentle humor the many incarnations of Jeremy. A comforting, reassuring book that children and parents will enjoy reading together.

Yancy and Bear are back! This lovable twosome is as engaging, and just as busy, as in Yancy & Bear. Bear decides it's his birthday again, and therefore time to change places (birthdays work differently for Bear than they do for Yancy.) However, their celebrations are dampened by a downpour, and since Grandfather can't plant his garden he takes the pair to play at the museum. These two, as usual, know how to thoroughly enjoy themselves wherever they are, but when they get home the rain stops and they can plant their precious flowers -- perhaps the nicest part of the day, after all.

Tess loves the prairie. But her parents do not; coming from an easier life, far, far away, they resent the bitter cold winter and the poverty that means burning cow dung for fuel. Tess and her brother Charlie go out to collect cow patties in secret, but the shame soon turns into pride as they rival each other in finding the best. When they are found out by their haughtiest neighbor, however, Tess feels that she has let her family down. But the neighbor, who scorned her family the previous years, sees Tess in a new light after a courageous event that saves his dog's life. Based on a true incident, Tess combines authenticity with drama. Set during the 1930s in the Canadian West, it is a remarkably subtle study of a family whose older members are immigrants but whose children are, in the truest sense, at home. The story also explores different kinds of pride, self-respect, courage, and survival.