In Family Friendly Recipes – Kids in the Kitchen, the Guelph Family Health Study puts together some great tips for cooking with children of all ages, along with providing some great healthy recipes for families. Children are great imitators they see their parents as role model and often want to follow what their parents are …

Ruby Programming Basics For Kids Why’s Poignant Guide to programming Ruby is aimed at making ruby programming basics simple and fun, with lots of examples children can learn. Perfect for introductory programming classes, self-study or in home-school or classrooms. Packed full of cartoon images of foxes and cryptic stories. Perfect to keep unruly teenagers entertained! …

A brother and sister wonder if there is such a thing as an invisibility cloak. Their search for information leads them to learn about all sorts of fabrics from linen and cotton to high tech fabrics, even a real potential invisibility cloak. Sample Text from Under the Invisibility Cloak   Arnav and Tanisha loved to …

In this dream-like tale, Fred is visiting his grandfather when time suddenly stops. Setting out to discover why, Fred meets Maestro Orpheus and his magical lyre. Together they begin a musical adventure along The Corridor of Time, on their way to wind The World Clock. Drawing on a broad range of classical music, by composers …

Where am I? is a book which shows different animals camouflaged in their natural habitat, like a nature puzzle. Young children can have fun finding the animals on the page, if you make the images smaller initially and zoon in until the animal can be spotted it can be a fun game. Each animal has …

Catch a Ride on Raindrops is a picture book that explains all about the water cycle a very simple way, perfect for elementary school science studies in early grades. This picture book is illustrated with beautiful and very colourful acryllic paintings. Author: Anjali Vaidya, Illustrator: Sayan Mukherjee     Text from Catch a Ride on …

In Red Moon, White Moon, Connell Maxwell realized early on in life that school had a strict hierarchy: the bullies and the bullied. Unfortunately, he was doomed to be a member of the latter group. He always wondered if it was his friends who put him there, but, deep down he had another suspicion, his …

The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck is another classic Beatrix Potter, presented in a unique new way for colourful online reading by Kiwi Opa. Jemima Puddleduck is annoyed because the farmer’s wife will not let her hatch her own eggs. Jemima runs away to find a suitable spot, and meets a ‘friend’ who offers to help. …

In this maths lesson story, the prince will only eat sandwiches cut in two even halves, but he wants a different shape every day. What is the king and queen to do? Worried over his refusal to eat they organise a competition for a new sandwich designer who can solve the problem. How many different …

This early music book teaches you everything you need to know about rhythm and tone to play simple tunes and scales on the piano. There is a section on rhythm which includes beats, key signatures, and rests, and provides exercises to clap to. There is a second section on tone that introduces the 7 whole …

A play that brings awareness of the importance of organ donation.

Billy Boy wasn’t like his brothers Loki and Thor – even his name said it! Find out what happens to Billy Boy’s farm adventures, will the sheep listen to him? Will he find a better home? Another comically illustrated book from Terry Greenwell.  

What will today bring is a picture book about a young child’s experience coping with disaster. This book is a great way for children to learn empathy for those facing civil disasters, to get inside the shoes of children displaced by natural disasters. This would be a very suitable story for classroom study when fundraising …

In Which Dog Do You Want? – My First Book About Dogs, babies and toddlers can be introduced to a range of simple words with different pictures of adorable dogs and puppies. This book is perfect also for an older sibling learning to read to a younger one, and includes activities at the end of …

Gabriel Rosenstock overhears these delightful conversations among cats set to the beautiful images of Elizabeth Fearne Bonsall. Sample Page from Conversations Among Cats What will we do today?” “Kill a mouse. What else?” “Kill a mouse? Do we have to?” “Yes.” “Meeow! Well, if you insist.” “I insist.” “Come on. Shake a leg! Let’s tell …