New Releases by Barbara Reid

It''s Gran''s birthday, and the whole family is celebrating with a big party! While the adults enjoy the festivities, the children have their own kind of fun! There are hiding places to find, fabulous make-believe games to play, delicious food to eat, and a scrumptious birthday cake along with a rousing family rendition of "Happy Birthday To You!" All too soon, the party is over for another year and the sleepy little partygoers are packed into the car to go home. What a wonderful time they have had! Barbara Reid''s humorous, rhythmic verse perfectly captures all the fun and exuberance of this special family occasion and her extraordinary talent garneredher a 1997 Governor General''s Award for Children''s Illustration in her signature medium, Plasticine.

Grandma travels the globe and returns with gifts from around the world.

Effie the ant teaches the elephants to tread more carefully.

"Buttercup the cow had a new baby calf, a fine baby calf, a strong baby calf..." She licks him, feeds him, and encourages him until he learns to walk and run and play. A bestseller since it was first published in 1984, this simple, gentle story of mother love is perfect for the moms who read it growing up to share with their own new little babies. The New Baby Calf was Barbara Reid''s first book in her now trademark Plasticine style. Published to great acclaim, it has never been out of print.

This is an analysis of the effects of recent legislative and organizational change and aims to be a guide to housing finance systems in the public and private sector. The book takes into account the new local authority and housing association financial regimes and the series contains core material for the IOH professional exam syllabus. capital finance and owner occupation, capital finance and the independent owner sector, paying for local authority initiative in housing, revenues finance and the independent rented sector, and paying for the running costs of local authority housing services.

A cobbler''s kindness to animals comes back to him when he attempts to outwit a witch and win a beautiful bride.

A Panamanian jockey is able to change a losing horse into a winner by curing him of a bad habit.

At the spring festival of the crickets, a young Italian boy buys a good luck cricket, loses it, and sets out to find his own special cricket again.