New Releases by Jean Little

By helping a small, abused dog, Dickon transforms himself.

Emma has always wanted a little brother. Now her family is adopting Max, and Emma is sure he will be the best brother ever. But Max has his own ideas. He thinks sisters are yucky, and that Emma is the yuckiest! Is this really what having a brother is all about? In Jean Little''s warmhearted, perceptive story about adoption, Emma learns that there is more to having a little brother than she had ever guessed -- and that in order to get the brother she wants, she must first learn to be the sister he needs.

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.

With the help of her new friend who has magic boots just like her own, Emma overcomes her shyness and no longer hates reading out loud in school.

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 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.

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.

seems young Elspet Mary has known nothing but loss. First her mother died, then her father, leaving her in the care if her aunt and uncle. With them, she has moved from one lonely Scottish village to another, and now, just as she is beginning to feel at home, she is being torn away again, to move to rugged Upper Canada. What awaits her in the strange new land? What will become of her grandmother, left behind in Scotland, and her beloved cat? Will she finally find a place to call home, a place where she belongs? Told in Jean Little''s inimitable voice, this moving coming-of-age story explores loss, loneliness and love-and the universal search for a place to belong.

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Flora Gauld, born in Taiwan of missionary parents, comes to live in Canada and is left with her Aunt Jen when her parents return to Taiwan.

Not only does Meg Copeland have to share a room with her handicapped sister, Sally, she even feels out of place with the rest of her family. And to make it worse, she''s struggling in school and probably won''t move on to the next grade. She''s sure she''s going to be a total failure.

Gruntle decides to leave the city to be a "real" pig like her grandfather, but she discovers that rolling in muck and eating swill and living without any books to read are not for her.

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

Includes news releases, newsletters, invitations, programs, citation, 2 b&w convocation photographs of J. Little, and her convocation address "Becoming a Real Pig"

Two sets of sisters learn about family relationships during a vacation they share at a beach cottage.

When Emily''s parents move to an eighteen-room house so that her four unpredictable cousins can live with them, life for Emily, an only child, is never again the same.

As the world around her braces itself for World War II, a young Canadian girl with impaired vision prepares to begin public high school.