Best Selling Books by Jean Little

With more than 200,000 books in print, Dear Canda has fast become the historical fiction series for young girls. Jean Little''s latest addition is the diary of a young girl observing her world change as war rages thousands of miles away. It has been two long years since Eliza''s beloved older brother, Hugo, went away to war. Caught up in his enthusiasm, she couldn''t understand her parent''s less-than enthusiastic reaction. Now that her other brother Jack has also enlisted, she yearns for the safe return of both brothers. If only she had a friend that she could talk to about her feelings....

A holiday treat for fans of the Dear Canada series, and all lovers of historical fiction! See how love brings this family even closer together at Christmastime. Eliza''s brothers both enlisted to fight in World War I. On the Home Front there were coal shortages, rationing, heart-stopping news of soldiers missing or dead. While praying for her brothers'' safe return, and longing for her very own friend, Eliza''s greatest comfort was the warmth of her exuberant and loving family. But Christmas Day 1919 brings a new challenge. This short story was originally published in Dear Canada: A Christmas to Remember, a collection featuring many of Canada''s top writers for children, including Sarah Ellis, Karleen Bradford, Carol Matas, and more. New readers will adore this stand-alone holiday tale, while fans of the series will recognize the voice of Eliza, whom they first met in the award-winning Dear Canada book Brothers Far from Home. Collect all 12 Dear Canada Christmas stories this season and enjoy a very happy holiday!

Featuring stories from nine outstanding Canadian authors, this anthology is the perfect Christmas gift for Dear Canada readers, both old and new! A Time for Giving includes ten tales of Christmas, following the most recent Dear Canada diarists "the Christmas after" their diary ends. Johanna Leary is reunited with her brother after they were separated at Grosse-Île; Mary Kobayashi spends a second Christmas at a Japanese internment camp; Rose Rabinowitz finds some surprising challenges in her new country, and many more! A Special Gift is a story from Ojibwe writer Ruby Slipperjack to preview her upcoming Dear Canada (coming in Fall 2016!), set the winter before the diarist is sent to Residential School. Contributors include Jean Little (Exiles from the War and All Fall Down), Barbara Haworth- Attard (To Stand on My Own), Sarah Ellis (That Fatal Night), Susan Aihoshi (Torn Apart), Norah McClintock (A Sea of Sorrows), Karleen Bradford (A Country of Our Own), Janet McNaughton (Flame and Ashes), Carol Matas (Pieces of the Past), and Ruby Slipperjack.

A holiday treat for fans of the Dear Canada series, and all lovers of historical fiction! Share in the excitement leading up to Christmas morning. During the euphoria towards the end of World War I, a different enemy stalked the land, killing by the hundreds and thousands. First Fee''s twin Fanny, then her older sister Jemma, caught the dreaded Spanish Flu. Fee''s family struggled to pick up the pieces, to put the War behind them, to face an even deadlier enemy. But finally, there is bright spot on the Macgregor family''s horizon. This short story was originally published in Dear Canada: A Christmas to Remember, a collection featuring many of Canada''s top writers for children, including Sarah Ellis, Maxine Trottier, Carol Matas, and more. New readers will adore this stand-alone holiday tale, while fans of the series will recognize the voice of Fee, whom they first met in the award-winning Dear Canada book If I Die Before I Wake. Collect all 12 Dear Canada Christmas stories this season and enjoy a very happy holiday!

When the family moves from Germany to Canada in the 1930''s, a nine-year-old girl discovers the reason for her awkwardness and apparent inability to do anything right.

A young girl survives the deadliest landslide in Canadian history — but a family secret could call into question everything she thought she knew about her life before the disaster. After her father dies, Abby and her family move west to live with relatives who run a hotel in the mining town of Frank, Alberta. Abby keeps busy helping out at the hotel, being chief caregiver to her little brother with Down Syndrome, and learning Morse Code at the telegraph office. When the devastating Frank Slide buries much of the town, Abby must do all she can to help. But a long-buried family secret emerged just before the disaster — and she must wait for the dust to settle before getting the answers she so desperately wants. Inspired by two of her own relatives, one who helped run a telegraph office in the late 1800s and another who shares Abby''s story (and her family secret), Jean Little crafts a compelling story rich with emotion and historical detail.

Jeremy is not having a good summer. His best friends have moved away, and he has to stay at the cottage with only his little sister Sarah and his Aunt Margery. His parents have remained in the city so his father can have an operation. When Jeremy finally sees him again, he finds out that his father has cancer and isn’t going to get better. Suddenly, Jeremy’s life has completely changed. But then he finds an unlikely friend in Tess, who knows what it’s like to lose someone. As his friendship with her grows, through good times and bad, Jeremy discovers that his father has left him something that will live forever …

Ten-year-old Willow lives with her four-year-old brother Twig. They are in the care of their mother, since neither of their fathers have stuck around to raise them. When their mother breaks her parole and takes off, they are left in the care of Maisie. Unfortunately Maisie suddenly dies, and the two find themselves alone in the city. With no one left to look after them in the city where they were born, they are sent to live with Willow''s grandmother, a writer, in her house called Stonecrop. From the rough streets of Vancouver, the children must adjust to a rural setting in Ontario, and the ways of their grandmother. Both heartbreakingly real and honestly inspiring, the story of Willow and Twig reverberates with the realities of growing up alone and unwanted, learning to be proud of who you are and having the courage to find out where it is that you truly belong.

First published: Markham, Ont.: Viking Kestrel, 1986.

In a stable in Bethlehem, five animals -- a donkey, a camel, a cat, a sheep and a puppy; scared, tell how they got there. When the soldiers of King Herod come seek Jesus, the puppy comes out of hiding just in time to prevent the stable-boy of tell them where they could find Mary and Joseph. A touching story Christmas tells how a lost puppy freedom to save the child Jesus.

Forty poems, including ones about dogs, nature, love, oneself, and childhood.

When the family moves from Germany to Canada in the 1930''s, a nine-year-old girl discovers the reason for her awkwardness and apparent inability to do anything right.

While on a picnic, a father puts together familiar elements from various stories until he comes up with a version his children like.

Cumulative rhyming tale of a man who swallows a flea, a piranha, and even a wapiti, while his dog warns that his eating habits will be the death of him.

For baseball fans. Ryder''s grandma answers all his questions with baseball references. 4-7 yrs.

Includes keynote address at Writing for Children Conference entitled "The Life of Your Story: Checking the Vital Signs" by J. Little, 1990; Vic Reports, 1991; author photo collage; anthology "Winter Weather" sent to J. Little for Christmas 1992; history of the Copeland family; 2 journal rerint articles by J. Little''s father, 1934; Institute for the Blind material; book review by J. Little of "The Saint Game"; photocopy of "I Wish I Could Fly", words by Rachel Adelstein, pictures by Jean Little; invitations, schedule, 1996 engraved appreciation plaque, coloured Christmas angel felt cutouts by J. Little, etc.

Life of Dorothy Jean (Little) Ellis from her birth in Indianapolis, Indiana to her place of residence in Peoria, Illinois in 1972.

Janie Chisholm doesn''t seem to be able to stop lying, until she becomes friends with Lisa who also tells lies, ones that hurt.

Another poignant story about a different sort of handicap.

When Mother is hospitalized, everyone in the Ross household must finally face the long ignored problem that seven-year-old James is not a baby, a slow learner, or lazy, but mentally retarded.

Product of a Jewish-Protestant marriage, Kate finds her dilemma over her religious leanings threatening her relationship with her best friend.

a preface by the author, What Will the Robin Do Then? is a collection of stories and poems celebrating every phase of winter from the last leaves at autumn to the first flowers of spring. From lyrical to hilarious, sombre to joyous, these stories reflect Jean Little''s astonishing capacity to capture all the richness of childhood.

Also includes col. photocopies of book covers "His Banner Over Me" and "Mine For Keeps"

Cards and letters are telling J. Little how much they enjoyed reading and/or receiving her book of poems "It''s a Wonderful World." Also includes printing company accounts, statement accompanying J. Little''s first cheque; 4 typescript pages entitled "The Story of My Life"; a letter written by Charles G.D. Roberts to Mr. Munro from New York in 1902; magazine pictures of Queen Elizabeth''s and Prince Philip''s marriage.