The Last Last

The Last Last

A young girl prepares to move from her island home in Jamaica to a new life in Canada. On her last day, she says goodbye to her favorite places, sights and smells, collecting memories and a special shell. While leaving is hard, her first moments in Canada give her a...
The Year of Fire

The Year of Fire

It’s maple syrup time and an old grandfather tells his granddaughter about the great fire of 1919, when the whole county caught fire and burned for a year. No one knew how it started, and only the snow finally seemed to be able to smother it. But the next spring they...
The One and Only Question

The One and Only Question

It’s Zeke’s first day at his new school and it seems like it is going to be the worst day ever. His favorite shirt has a mustard stain on it, the bus driver is unfriendly, and his teacher covers material Zeke has heard a million times. Worst of all, Zeke is braced all...
Loop de Loop: Circular Solutions for a Waste-free World

Loop de Loop: Circular Solutions for a Waste-free World

Get loopy with this playful introduction to the hopeful, transformative possibilities of circular systems! Nature works on a cycle, where everything in the loop has value and nothing is wasted. But modern humans have created a different kind of system: it’s less like...
What Milly Did

What Milly Did

Milly Zantow wanted to solve the problem of her town’s full landfill and ended up creating a global recycling standard — the system of numbers you see inside the little triangle on plastics. This is the inspiring story of how she mobilized her community, creating...