Most Popular Books by Jean Little

Away at school, Sally Copeland has always dreamed of going home, but now that she’s there, she feels frightened and unsure of herself.Will her brother and sister accept her? Will she be able to do things for herself? And what will it be like to go to a regular school and be the only one with cerebral palsy?

Nell makes two wishes on her birthday, but the next day they show little sign of coming true. Everyone in her household is busy and wants her out from underfoot and no one is willing to help her find her lost cat. In the end she finds more than a cat and she makes her own wishes come true with the help of a row of tall, bright, smiling sunflowers.

Anna has always been the clumsy one in the family. Somehow she can never do anything right! She bumps into tables, and she can''t read the blackboard at her school. Her perfect brothers and sisters call her "Awkward Anna." When Papa announces that the family is moving from Germany to Canada, Anna''s heart sinks. How can she learn English when she can''t even read German? Nothing could be worse than this! But when the Soldens arrive in Canada, Anna learns that there is a reason for her clumsiness. And suddenly, wonderfully, her whole world begins to change.

Kate Bloomfield is back! And she''s got a lot to say -- about school and friends and parents, about cartwheels (she can''t do them), about parsnips (she won''t eat them), about being alone and being herself, about life and love...even about Dave Nelson, who doesn''t know she''s alive. Outspoken, funny, sometimes confused but always observant, Kate is writing it all down -- "Hey World, Here I Am!" Notable Children''s Books of 1989 (ALA) Best Books of 1989 (SLJ) Notable 1989 Children''s Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC) Children''s Books of 1989 (Library of Congress) 1989 Children''s Books (NY Public Library)

One by one, the baby animals are born on the farm, each making another barnyard mother yearn for a baby of her own. A warm-hearted, gently humorous story about a mother''s love.

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.

Celebrate the love between mother and child in this new board book edition of the sweetest story of all! One by one, baby animals are born on the farm. Frolicking barnyard babies put smiles of love on their mothers'' faces, and each time a new animal is born, another mother yearns for one of her very own. When a new human mom shows off her own baby, it''s the sweetest one of all . . . because it''s her very own. A warm-hearted story with gently humorous rhymes, this sturdy board book is the perfect gift for a new baby''s bookshelf.

Make a wish and the sky''s the limit in this delightful rhyming story from the incomparable Jean Little. If wishes were ice cream, our cones would be doubles.If wishes were soapsuds, we''d blow shining bubbles. In this charming new picture book, children and their wild imaginations take centre stage! In a true celebration of wishers and dreamers, Jean Little entertains readers with bouncy rhymes depicting kids'' favourite wishes -- from puppies to pancakes; and sundaes to snowflakes. Governor General''s award-winning Canadian illustrator Geneviève Côté infuses each page with her inventive illustrations, literally turning each spread into a carnival of fun! If wishes were stories, there would only be one -- this one!

Written with vivid recall of emotions and events, Little''s autobiography beginswith her early childhood in Taiwan and concludes with the acceptance for publication of her early novel.

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.

Dickon wasn''t happy in his old home or his old school. He hopes that in his new neighborhood he will meet children who never knew his old, hyper self, who will like him for who he is now. And he hopes for a dog of his own. Dickon''s mother calls him Birdie. She feeds him milk from a teddy bear mug. She worries if he''s out of her sight for a moment and she knows how filthy and vicious dogs can be. Dickon is delighted to discover that the Humane Society is right on the other side of the fence behind the new house, but only by disobeying his mother will he ever get close to a real dog.

Pet wanted Max wants a furry pet. Emma wants a pet too, but she''s allergic to animals with fur. When Emma finds the perfect animal, will Max like his sister''s strange pet?

Through the diary of 10-year-old Victoria Cope, we learn about the arrival of ragged Mary Anna, one of the thousands of impoverished British children who were sent to Canada at the beginning of the century. Mary Anna joins the Cope family as a servant and is treated well, but she has to cope with the initial apprehension of the family members and the loss of her brother, Jasper, who was placed with another family. Victoria vows to help Mary Anna find her brother, so they can be a family once again.

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

Poor Harry has a case of the hopeless hiccups!

Inspired by the real-life story of Helen Keller and the servant girl Martha Washington! How did Helen Keller manage before Annie Sullivan came to teach her language? This fictionalized story of two very different girls in the South, two decades after the Civil War, builds on the mentions of Martha Washington in Keller''s autobiography and reimagines their relationship. Martha, Helen''s constant companion, is the cook''s daughter -- a black girl, just a few years older, and the person who best understood Helen''s attempts at communication. Charged with keeping the unruly younger girl occupied and out of trouble, Martha is sometimes bullied, sometimes a co-conspirator, and often Helen''s rescuer. She is with Helen as Annie teaches her words and language, even on the miraculous day when Helen understands that the water running over one hand, and the word W-A-T-E-R that is being spelled into the other, are connected -- the event that freed Helen to communicate with the wider world. When Jean Little revisited Keller''s The Story of My Life, she became fascinated with the few mentions of Martha and wondered what it might have been like to be in Martha''s place and to be given the difficult task of minding Helen -- a girl so different, in a position of privilege and yet dependent on her. Could the two girls forge a friendship? Jean Little''s fascination with that personal dynamic has evolved into a remarkable story of two girls navigating through the world, Hand in Hand.

Shakespeare is a Seeing Eye puppy. But before the time comes for him to train with a blind person, he must spend six months with a girl who has never learned to love. He does all he can to teach her, but the job places him in some dangerous situations and by the end of the story he has earned the title Rescue Pup. Rescue Pup is the first of two books in a series. Book two is Forward, Shakespeare!