A healing dose of fun for sick kids and the parents who love them! Whether your preschooler is home with the chicken pox, or your fifth-grader is laid up with a broken leg, The Penny Whistle SICK-IN-BED BOOK comes to the rescue with a delightful collection of absorbing activities to occupy young patients, and advice and ideas for their parents, from setting up a sickroom to helping a bedridden child stay physically fit. In this book, concerned parents will find: 
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<li>Games, crafts, and activities to be enjoyed alone or with friends and family </li>
<li>Inventive ways of keeping up with schoolwork </li>
<li>"It worked for me" anecdotes and tips from parents and kids </li>
<li>Advice on coping with the special physical and emotional needs of a sick child </li>
<li>Videotapes, audiotapes, and books that will engage and stimulate a child's imagination </li>
</ul> If laughter is the best medicine, then The Penny Whistle SICK-IN-BED BOOK is just what the doctor ordered.

One Damn Thing after Another

Parenting & Relationships

Garner, Hugh

Family Activities

McGraw-Hill/Ryerson

A Hugh Garner Omnibus

Toronto's Cabbagetown in the Depression...North America's largest Anglo-Saxon slum. Ken Tilling leaves school to face the bleak prospects of the dirty thirties-where do you go, what do you do, how do you make a life for yourself when all the world offers in unemployment, poverty and uncertainty? 
"As a social document, Cabbagetown is as important and revealing as either The Tin Flute or The Grapes of Wrath. Stern realism has also projected upon the pages of a whole gallery of types, lifelike and convincing. He is well fitted to hold the mirror up to human nature." Globe and Mail. 
Cabbagetown was first published in an abbreviated paperback edition in 1950 and was published in its entirety in 1968. This, the first quality paperback edition, contains the full unexpurgated text of Cabbagetown.\nFrom the Publisher\nHugh Garner is one of Canada's best known writers. Born in Yorkshire, England he grew up in the Cabbagetown section of Toronto. He left technicall school on his sixteenth birthday and the next day began work at the Toronto Star. 
During the Depression he rode freight trains across Canada and the U.S.A., working at every conceivable kind of job. With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he joined the Abraham Lincoln Battalion of the International Brigades. Back in Canada after the war, he worked at odd jobs until World War II when he joined the Navy and served on Atlantic convoy duty until 1945. 
He is the author of nine novels, five collections of short stories, a book of humourous essays, and his autobiography One Damn Thing After Another.

Cabbagetown: A Novel

History

Americas

The Sin Sniper: A Novel

Simon & Schuster of Canada

This story with its shocking expose of social evils, holds a forceful message for both sexes. Its strange mixture of power, tension and torment mark it as a human story that will thrill and grip all readers. Down in the depths of the city, washed by the murky waters of the dock-yards lies Skidrow, a dark den of intrigue and mystery, whose crumbling structures harbour the outcasts of the city.--From the 1950 edition Hugh Garner's second novel, Waste No Tears hit drug store and train station spinner racks in July of 1950--then disappeared, never to see print again... until now. Ignored by some critics, dismissed by others, this 'Novel about the Abortion Racket' is the stuff of legend. Garner claimed that it had been written in ten days as part of a struggle to ward off 'incipient starvation.' He was paid $400 for his efforts. Dark and disturbing, Waste No Tears is populated by skid row bums, loose women, tight men, shady doctors and one wanton landlady, all moving about a Toronto that is far less than respectable. First published under the pseudonym 'Jarvis Warwick'--from Toronto's Jarvis Street Warwick Hotel, a favourite watering hole of the author --this Ricochet Books edition coincides with the celebration of the Garner centenary.

Waste No Tears (Ricochet Series)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Véhicule Press

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