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The Longest Night
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2024On the shortest day of the year, communities come together to celebrate and savor every ray of light.Catalogue Item
2019A celebration of the winter solstice and the Yuletide season. As the sun set on the shortest day of the year, early people would gather to prepare for the long night ahead. They built fires and lit…Catalogue Item
2024"The busy animals of Acorn Village know all about being cozy. In the charming woodland village, each and every home is full of comfy nooks for fun activities, snug spots for sleeping, and wide…Catalogue Item
2024"With jewellike die-cuts revealing the colors of the season against soft painterly backgrounds, Caldecott Honoree Aaron Becker captures the light of winter skies and lengthening days, the glow of…Catalogue Item
2024"Our young narrator doesn’t like itchy hats or cold wind, and she especially doesn’t like going places she’s never been before. But she reluctantly agrees to join her mom at an ice festival, where…Catalogue Item
2022"Winter is a wonderful time to get creative! Let's make walnut reindeer on skis, a bright bird feeder, a bendy polar bear, and much more! This book will encourage you to get outdoors, gather awesome…
Reading the Four Elements (Sort of!)
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2025"Tareq Baconi crafts a deeply intimate, unforgettable portrait of how a political consciousness -- desire and resistance -- is passed down through generations. In 1948, Tareq's grandmother, Eva,…Catalogue Item
Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead2025"[A] look at that most elemental force, water, and through Indigenous stories, tradition, and thinking, suggest[ing] a powerful path for the future. For many years, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson took…Catalogue Item
Building the Dams, Mines and Megaprojects That Run Our World2025"This Rare Earth is a graphic account of twenty-five years working for some of the largest mining and engineering companies in the world. Much of this work was conducted in in conflict zones where…Catalogue Item
The Triumph and Tumult of NPR2025"An epic, decade-long reported history of National Public Radio that reveals the unlikely story of one of America's most celebrated but least understood media empires. Founded in 1970, NPR is…
Yes, We Have Large Print Books for Kids!
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2025Trey knows the drill: His dad gets him into a school full of kids with rich parents. Trey makes friends, and his dad makes connections. Soon, there's the con, where Trey's dad suckers the other…Catalogue Item
2024"Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture…Catalogue Item
2024"Ask Simon O'Keeffe why his family moved to tiny Grin And Bear It, Nebraska, and he'll tell you they were driven out of Omaha by alpacas. In Simon's version of the story, a blessing of the animals…Catalogue Item
2024Olive Cobin Zang has . . . issues. And they mostly aren't her fault. (No, really!) Though she often slips under the radar, problems have a knack for finding her. So, imagine her doubts when she's…
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