Bana-phrionnsa a’ Phoca Phaipeir
A Scottish Gaelic translation of the beloved Canadian classic The Paper Bag Princess, from the translator of Anna Ruadh (Anne of Green Gables). When the fiercest… Read More
By: Robert Munsch (CA)
A Scottish Gaelic translation of the beloved Canadian classic The Paper Bag Princess, from the translator of Anna Ruadh (Anne of Green Gables). When the fiercest… Read More
By: Andy Jones (CA)
A hilarious new folktale adaptation from Andy Jones, with brave and resilient girls, evil giants, a magical cat, a storytelling hotel, and hairy… Read More
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Bodkin Mòr set out to teach his greedy friend Bodkin Beag a lesson, unleashing a chain of unintended consequences. This traditional Scottish Gaelic tale was once the most widely-known children’s story in the Gaelic… Read More
By: Emily MacDonald (CA)
Bodkin Mòr set out to teach his greedy friend Bodkin Beag a lesson, unleashing a chain of unintended consequences. This traditional Scottish Gaelic tale was once the most widely-known children?s story in the Gaelic… Read More
By: Ellen Obed Bryan (CA)
The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Borrowed Black tells the story of an imaginary creature who lives on the coast of Labrador. He borrows everything from his surroundings — even the… Read More
By: Terri M. Roberts (CA)
This is the story of the great Gaelic hero Fionn MacCool and why he sucks his thumb. This traditional Gaelic tale is retold as an action story to read aloud. It introduces children to storytelling and to Gaelic oral… Read More
By: Michael James Isaac (CA)
The human need to belong is very powerful, so much so that we often sacrifice parts of who we are in order to be accepted. This is the tale of… Read More
By: Andy Jones (CA)
When her husband Jack is duped by an underhanded sea captain, Mary disguises herself as a man, ships aboard a vessel, and sets out to save Jack and restore their fortunes. An award-winning tale of love, treachery,… Read More
By: Andy Jones (CA)
When a menacing green man challenges him to a high-stakes card game, Jack can’t resist. This brilliant blend of folklore and pop culture is a tale of cards, love, magic, hairy giants, impossible tasks, and a… Read More
By: Andy Jones (CA)
Jack is back in a tale rich with a surprising canine sidekick, sneaky robbers, a missing princess with reward attached, a conniving sea captain, corpses, curses, kisses, and… Read More
By: Barry Jean Ancelet
Warning: this book contains heart-pounding and mildly bloody adventure, taken right from the wonderful oral storytelling style of Francophone Louisiana. Zombie-dogs and witch-princesses… Read More
By: Mickey MacNeil (CA)
This is the tale of “Luran and the Mermaid” in the Scottish Gaelic language. Luran was a farmer and a fisherman. He had cattle, sheep, and horses, and a good… Read More
By: Andy Jones (CA), Philip Dinn (CA)
Peg’s big, ugly and hairy; but she’s brave enough and smart enough to trick a witch, help a king, and find husbands for her two beautiful sisters and herself. But will her husband fall for her? Readers certainly do in… Read More
By: Sandra Lightburn (CA)
Every autumn, strange figures start appearing around Kentville, Nova Scotia. Sauntering down the sidewalk, sitting in a tree, cavorting on a lawn—who are these peculiar people?
They’re the… Read More
By: Andy Jones (CA)
Jack, the delightful, mischievous, big-hearted hero of so many Newfoundland tales, is worried about his parents. They aren’t getting any younger; in fact, they’re really quite old. So Jack and his brothers Bill and Tom… Read More
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