Books with title The Shopping Basket

Steven is sent out for groceries on to the mean street of the city with only a shopping basket for protection. There are several shady characters about who are offering to lighten the load of the basket by helping themselves to his provisions! Stephen's having none of it and with the help of some of the city's less attractive sights he outsmarts all of them and makes it home in time for tea. With the pictures telling as much of the story as the text, children and adults alike will appreciate the humour and observations from this well known children's author.

Aren’t cats wonderful pets? Have you never wondered what they are really looking at? Do they see things that we cannot see? Things sometimes happen in life like shadows and sounds in the night that are curious and everlasting. Have you ever been tangled or caught up in a nightmare? Without explanations, don’t know what to say, how about Cat’s got your tongue?

Dealing with a parent's illness can be difficult at any age It is 1967 and twelve year old Ruth Iverson's world pretty much revolves around her friends, a boy she likes, the Monkees and spending time with her Dad doing special stuff like watching the Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup. But she is soon to realize that her mom's strange behaviour which has become an embarrassment, are symptoms of a disease that will affect the family's life and possibly Ruth's future. While she watches major events like the marriage of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, the birth of Priscilla Presley, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy and Neil Armstrong walking on the moon, Ruth faces some major life events of her own and struggles to come to terms with the changes they bring.

“The Sharing Basket” shows children how sharing their possessions will give them a “bubbly feeling” inside. In this story, sharing is fun. Sharing is fun—except when the narrator, Timmy, does not like the person he has to share his basket with. Timmy is now mad, and his world is miserable. He has an accident and falls down hard. What happens next is a total surprise! In addition to making sharing fun each day of the week, this story shows that people we don’t like can sometimes turn out to be our best friends. Readers will enjoy finding their own morals to this story. But even without any moral lessons, it’s a happy read. Read the verses out loud to young children, and let them guess the last rhyming word on that page!

Aren’t cats wonderful pets? Have you never wondered what they are really looking at? Do they see things that we cannot see? Things sometimes happen in life like shadows and sounds in the night that are curious and everlasting. Have you ever been tangled or caught up in a nightmare? Without explanations, don’t know what to say, how about Cat’s got your tongue?