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PICTURE BOOKS

Song for the Cosmos, A ©22
by Jan Lower

Blues guitarist Blind Willie Johnson led a hardscrabble life, but in 1977, NASA’s
Voyager spacecrafts launched into space, carrying a golden record to introduce
planet Earth to the cosmos, and one of his songs became the defining anthem.

ISBN: 9781568463629• LIST: $28.50/DISC: $22.80
Hardcover • 32 Pages • 9” x 12” • Colour Illustrations
Reading Level: Grade 4 •DEWEY: 781.643
Creative Editions • Fall 2022
Story of Our Tree, The ©22
by Ruth Owen

As it grows from a seed to a mature giant, discover how a tree makes oxygen,
cleans the air, feeds the soil, and becomes a home for millions of tiny creatures.

ISBN: 9781788562195 • LIST: $31.00/DISC: $24.80
Hardcover • 32 Pages • 81/4” x 11” • DEWEY: JP
Reading Level: Grade 2 • Interest Level: Grades 2-5
Colour Illustrations, Original Artwork
Lerner Publishing Group • Spring 2022
Sun & Son ©22
by Linda Joy Singleton

Paired verbs tell two parallel stories between the human world and the natural
world: While a father nurtures a son during a birthday camping trip, the sun
nurtures our planet in this inspirational picture book.

ISBN: 9781681527475 • LIST: $27.00/DISC: $21.60
Reinforced Library • 32 Pages • 9” x 9” • DEWEY: JP
Reading Level: Grades PK-2 • Colourful Artworks
Amicus Ink • Spring 2022

Tale of the Tiny Man, The ©22
by Barbro Lindgren
There was once a tiny man. One day, at the first sign of spring, he decided to
pin a note to a tree that said FRIEND WANTED. Then he sat down on the step to
wait. After ten days, he woke to find a cold nose in his hand. Beside him was a
big dog with a beautiful curve in its tail. The tiny man had made a friend at last.
They play and walk and laugh every day. But then the girl in the polka dot dress
comes to the step. The little man watches as the dog put his soft muzzle into the
girl’s hand and worries that he has lost his only friend. The Tale of the Tiny Man
is a touching picture book about loneliness that has a very happy ending. It is ISBN: 9781776574094 • LIST: $29.45/DISC: $23.56
possible after all to have more than one friend. Hardcover • 36 Pages • 73/4” x 9” • DEWEY: FIC
Reading Level: Grade 2 • Interest Level: Grades PK-1
Colour Illustrations, Original Artwork
Lerner Publishing Group • Spring 2022
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