By Mike Leonetti, Illustrated by Gary McLaughlin

A young boy rediscovers the joy of hockey through Sidney Crosby's famous gold medal goal. Tyler's life has always been about hockey: hockey after school, hockey on weekends, hockey on holidays... hockey, hockey, hockey. So his parents are surprised and disappointed when Tyler abandons the game he loved so much.

But in 2010 the Winter Olympics come to Vancouver. The country is desperate to win a gold medal in hockey. "Sid the Kid" Crosby is leading the men's team, and all of Canada is counting on him to help win the first gold in men's hockey on home soil.

Tyler's dad gets tickets to the gold-medal game, and Tyler can barely contain himself while he watches the nail-biting final between Canada and the United States. Of course, Crosby scores the "golden goal" in one of the most exciting gold-medal games ever!

Seeing the joy Sidney Crosby has for the game, Tyler decides to return to the ice and just take time to enjoy the sport he loves.

Hardcover containing 32 pages.

By Kevin Shea, Illustrated by Ken Dewar

Hockey history and highlights are relayed in this tribute to the National Hockey League Alumni Association! H is for Hockey is an NHL alumni alphabet featuring colourful illustrations. A must-have gift for any young hockey enthusiast!

Hardcover containing 32 pages.

By Dr. Seuss

"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!" Since 1959, 'Happy Birthday to You!'—Dr. Seuss’s joyous ode to individuality—has allowed readers to experience firsthand the thrill of celebrating a birthday as it is done in Katroo. Awakened by the Birthday Bird, you (the reader) are swept out of town on a Smorgasbord’s back to begin a day and night of feasting and feting in such Seussian splendor that it will take 20 days to sweep up the mess!

Hardcover containing 64 pages.

By Shel Silverstein

Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk . . . and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave. This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein has created a moving parable for readers of all ages that offers an affecting interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another’s capacity to love in return.

Hardcover, contains 64 pages.

By Margret and H.A. Rey

Curious George has found a lasting place in the hearts of millions of boys and girls all over the world ever since he was brought to life by Margret and H.A. Rey more than 60 years ago. Here you will find 8 timeless stories about George, the man with the yellow hat, and their friends. Bring back childhood memories with the stories from Curious George!

Stories include:

• Curious George Takes a Train
• Curious George Visits a Toy Store
• Curious George and the Dump Truck
• Curious George and the Birthday Surprise
• Curious George Goes Camping
• Curious George Goes to a Costume Party
• Curious George Visits the Library
• Curious George in the Big City

Hardcover containing 208 pages.

By Dr. Seuss

Generations have loved The Lorax for its adorable characters and funny pom-pom looking Truffula trees. An easy-to-read story for almost new readers, this story has a great message about our environment that is put in a way that a young child can understand.

Printed on Earth-friendly recycled paper as a part of The Lorax Project! For more information visit www.seussville.com/loraxproject.

Hardcover containing 72 pages.

Dream big with Olivia!

Olivia dreams big! Whether she's taming a circus lion or building a sandcastle as tall as the Empire State Building, her boundless imagination and courageous spirit are an inspiration to young and old. Dream Big pairs Ian Falconer's award-winning illustrations of Olivia's priceless and plucky escapades with motivational musings from really big dreamers like Eleanor Roosevelt, Oscar Wilde and Walt Disney!

By Roch Carrier, Illustrated by Sheldon Cohen

First published in 1979 in a collection of adult stories, Roch Carrier's The Hockey Sweater is now firmly established as a Canadian classic! Basing the story on his own childhood growing up in St. Justine, Quebec, in the 1940s, Carrier describes the passion that he and his friends had for hockey, and particularly for the exploits of hockey great Maurice "The Rocket" Richard of the Montreal Canadiens. Roch and his friends all have red Canadiens sweaters emblazoned with Richard's famous number 9. When Roch outgrows his sweater, his mother orders him a new one from Eaton's in Montreal. The sweater that arrives 2 weeks later, though, isn't a Canadiens sweater but the blue-and-white sweater of the Toronto Maple Leafs, which Roch can't imagine wearing under any circumstances! But wear the Leafs sweater he must, with hilarious consequences. Sheldon Cohen's warm, rich illustrations are a perfect match for Carrier's exuberant text.

Softcover containing 24 pages.

It's the Grazers vs Biters exciting soccer match! When veggie-nibbling Grazers and meat-munching Biters take to the soccer field, it’s a showdown of prehistoric proportions. Diplodocus shows an herbivore’s soft touch and strikes first for the Grazers. But Gallimimus takes a pass from the twin Pterodactyls on the wings and finishes it off to even things up for the Biters. In the second half, Apatosaur scores the go-ahead goal for the veggie-side, but then a brawl results in red cards for both teams. Hungry to tie the game, Biter Allosaurus takes advantage. Now it’s 2-2, setting up the teeth-gnashing, claw-curling final minutes. . . .

This hardcover book includes bright illustraions that seem to jump out of the pages, easy text for a beginner or near beginner reader and 32 pages of dinosaur vs dinosaur fun!

Measures approximately 11" long x 9" wide.

"The game begins at half past six, when dinos grab their hockey sticks." Rhyming couplets set the scene for a fantastical sports event: a hockey game played between opposing dinosaur teams: the Meat-Eaters and the Veggiesaurs. Gott's action-filled paintings amplify the sports moves and the players' comically exaggerated expressions, from the scowling face off between T. Rex and Tricera to the jubilant postgame celebration, covered by eager dino newscasters. Kids new to hockey may need help visualizing terms such as assist and check, but even if they don't have a full grasp of specifics, many children will be caught up by the inventive premise, the slapstick humor, and the energy in the words and pictures. By sorting teams by herbivores and carnivores, this also sneaks in a science lesson that is reinforced with a scoreboard visual.

32 Pages

Measures approximately 11" long x 9" wide.

By Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss' classic tale of Yertle the Turtle, plus 2 other fun stories! Includes Gertrude McFuzz, the Big Brag and of course, Yertle the Turtle. What could be better than 3 modern fables with the humorous pictures and verse of Dr. Seuss?

Hardcover containing 96 pages.

By Rufus Butler Seder

There's never before been a book like Gallop! Employing a patented new technology called Scanimation, each page is a marvel that brings animals, along with one shining star, to life with art that literally moves. It's impossible not to flip the page, and flip it again, and again, and again!

A first book of motion for kids, it shows a horse in full gallop and a turtle swimming up the page. A dog runs, a cat springs, an eagle soars, and a butterfly flutters. Scanimation is a state-of-the-art 6-phase animation process that combines the "persistence of vision" principle with a striped acetate overlay to give the illusion of movement. Complementing the art is a delightful rhyming text full of simple questions and fun, nonsensical replies: Can you gallop like a horse? Giddyup-a-loo! Can you strut like a rooster? Cock-a-doodle-doo!

Hardcover containing 12 pages.

By Dr. Seuss

It's the literary equivalant of buried treasure! Seuss scholar/collector Charles D. Cohen has hunted down 7 rarely seen stories by Dr. Seuss. With a colour palette that has been enhanced beyond the limitations of the original 1950s magazines in which they appeared, this is a collection of stories that no Seuss fan (whether scholar or second-grader) will want to miss!

Includes:

• The Bear, the Rabbit, and the Zinniga-Zanniga (about a rabbit saved from a bear with a single eyelash!)
• Gustav the Goldfish (an early, rhymed version of the Beginner Book A Fish Out of Water)
• Tadd and Todd (a tale passed down via photocopy to generations of twins)
• Steak for Supper (about fantastic creatures who follow a boy home in anticipation of a steak dinner)
• The Bippolo Seed (in which a scheming feline leads an innocent duck to make a bad decision)
• The Strange Shirt Spot (the inspiration for the bathtub-ring scene in The Cat in the Hat Comes Back)
• The Great Henry McBride (whose far-flung career fantasies are only bested by Dr. Seuss' own!)

Hardcover containing 72 pages.

This hilarious retelling of the classic Russian tale about a farmer whose turnip is impossible to pull out of the ground uses simple vocabulary and is ideal for reading aloud. Its cumulative theme will soon have young readers gleefully joining in, and Irish artist Niamh Sharkey's wonderfully quirky illustrations will delight and fascinate all ages. Contains 40 pages. By: Alexsei Tolstoy and Niamh Sharkey.

By Dr. Seuss

Turn out the lights and say how-dee-do to Dr. Seuss's spookiest character… the empty pants! Yes, the pair of pale green pants (with nobody inside them!) is more hair-raising than ever with the addition of a special nontoxic ink that glows in the dark after brief exposure to light! What Was I Scared Of: A Glow-in-the-Dark Encounter is a compelling allegory about shaking hands with your deepest fears that's perfect for reading at slumber parties, on campouts, and underneath the covers. It was one of Dr. Seuss's personal all-time favourites. We have no doubt it will become one of yours, too!

Hardcover containing 24 pages.