Correspondence between a young boy and his music-student uncle chronicles the upheaval in Christoph's household caused by the arrival of an eccentric, difficult, and deaf composer, Ludwig van Beethoven, the new upstair's tenant.

Beethoven Lives Upstairs

Nichol, Barbara

Children's Books

scholastic

A colorfully illustrated fictional profile takes young readers on an imaginary tour of Beethoven's world in which a series of letters captures the genius's passion and dedication toward his music as he prepares to write yet another symphony. Reprint.

Beethoven Lives Upstairs (Orchard Paperbacks)

Literature & Fiction

Orchard Books

Scholastic Canada, Limited

A collection of poems about dogs and the things they like to do

Biscuits in the Cupboard

Animals

Fitzhenry-Whiteside

Biscuits In The Cupboard is published by Fitzhenry and Whiteside.

Biscuits In The Cupboard

Fitzhenry and Whiteside

Fragments of a handwritten letter have been discovered. Their author’s name is Margaret, and in the letter she describes her memories of a summer of her girlhood long ago when the dippers came up from the Don River. It was 1912, and a summer full of odd happenings. The letter tells of Margaret’s first encounter with her father, of her mother’s worry that she might lose her job as a maid, and of her little sister’s being overtaken by paralysis and disease. And, of course, there were the dippers moving up from the river to inhabit the neighbourhood – furry, ungainly, dog-like creatures with leathery wings – creatures unnerving but not dangerous, yet another fact of life to become adjusted to.

Dippers

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Tundra Books

In One Small Garden, Barbara Nichol brings together stories, memories, and botany to create a book that is as unique and lush as a summer garden. Here, plants from all over the world live and eventually die. Ants, raccoons, and a stray cat cross paths with a lost cockatoo who originated thousands of miles away. Stories and memories of people share space in the garden too. This is the perfect book for those who understand the enchantment and the wild-at-heart nature of the primmest garden. This is a book to treasure for the whole family.

One Small Garden

Science, Nature & How It Works

When Grandpa goes traveling, he sends home postcards. But these are no ordinary postcards, and Grandpa is no ordinary man. At the turn of the century, Sir William Cornelius Van Horne was one of the most influential businessmen in North America. While in Europe in 1909, retired railroad president William Cornelius Van Horne sent hand-drawn postcards to his grandson in Montreal. He loved to draw elephants: elephants standing at the rail of an ocean liner, elephants smoking cigars on trains, and of course, elephants with their “trunks all aboard.” Author Barbara Nichol was inspired by this collection of elephantine epistles and has written the whimsical and fanciful verse that captures the turn-of-century spirit of Van Horne’s creations.

Trunks All Aboard: An Elephant ABC

Fragments of a handwritten letter have been discovered. Their author’s name is Margaret, and in the letter she describes her memories of a summer of her girlhood long ago when the dippers came up from the Don River.It was 1912, and a summer full of odd happenings. The letter tells of Margaret’s first encounter with her father, of her mother’s worry that she might lose her job as a maid, and of her little sister’s being overtaken by paralysis and disease. And, of course, there were the dippers moving up from the river to inhabit the neighbourhood – furry, ungainly, dog-like creatures with leathery wings – creatures unnerving but not dangerous, yet another fact of life to become adjusted to.

Safe and Sound are two small dogs with big ideas: they want to see the world. But the world is not what they expect. First of all, who knew that planes fly so high? that the English Channel includes waves? that in Australia it is autumn when everyone knows it should be spring? Poor little Safe and Sound record their trials in journals, and it is those journals that form Barbara Nichol’s hilarious long poem. And so was born their manuscript, and so was born their book, And if you’d like to read it I will tell you where to look. You’ll find it in the bookstore under Canine stories, true. In the section labeled “Biting Off Much More than You Can Chew.”

Safe and Sound

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Beethoven Lives Upstairs

Beethoven Lives Upstairs (Orchard Paperbacks)

Beethoven Lives Upstairs

Biscuits in the Cupboard

Biscuits In The Cupboard

Dippers

One Small Garden

Trunks All Aboard: An Elephant ABC

Dippers

Safe and Sound