Midnight On the Farm

It's midnight on the farm. Somewhere two white horses lie down in the hay and dream of galloping over green hills. 
In the deep dark of midnight, everything on the farm sinks gently into dreamland. For one small child who watches through the window, that mystical time between wakefulness and slumber is as peaceful and comforting as the country whose name is sleep. Soon, he too will go there, but not before he catches a glimpse of the dreams that will come to each creature under the turning stars.

Midnight on the Farm

Hume, Stephen

Children's Books

Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd

The first book in the Alphonse series deals with shapes. Alphonse, a delightfully wacky artist, attempts to paint a valentine but, by mistake, creates a square, a circle, and a triangle.

A Circle Is Not a Valentine (Alphonse Knows)

Zimmermann, H. Werner

Literature & Fiction

Louis hardly ever had trouble falling asleep. But this night, even though he had been cuddled and snuggled, Louis was thirsty and hot and fidgety. Then he had a wonderful idea. He would find a better planet to live on. Some place where the lights would be on all night long.

Louis and the Night Sky (Ox Tales)

Morgan, Nicola

The Adventures of Baby Bear (Nature Babies)

Lang, Aubrey

Animals

Bizet (The Master musicians series)

Bizet

Arts & Photography

Dean, Winton

Music

How would the innocent generation of 1914 respond to the horrors of the trenches? Malcolm Brown's book conveys the spirit of the British soldier, commonly referred to as Tommy, with first-hand accounts taken from uncensored letters and diaries. The eloquence and humanity of the British soldier shine through, and the work stands as a moving tribute to a lost and noble generation. Yet war is a time of contradictions, and alongside the image of the "noble Tommy" we are presented with forthright critisisms of the British command and, more disturbingly, a taste of the blood-lust that was awakened in these unlikely warriors.

Tommy Goes to War

History

Brown, Malcolm

Military

The Social Contract, Or Principles of Political Right (Du contrat social ou Principes du droit politique) (1762) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is the book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way in which to set up a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society which he had already identified in his Discourse on Inequality (1754). The Social Contract helped inspire political reforms or revolutions in Europe, especially in France. The Social Contract argued against the idea that monarchs were divinely empowered to legislate; as Rousseau asserts, only the people, who are sovereign, have that all-powerful right. The stated aim of the Social Contract is to determine whether there can be a legitimate political authority. In order to accomplish more and remove himself from the state of nature, man must enter into a Social Contract with others. In this social contract, everyone will be free because they all forfeit the same amount of rights and impose the same duties on all.

Social Contract and Discourses

Politics & Social Sciences

Rousseau, Jean­Jacques

Philosophy

Canada's forests cover 4.2 million km squared. They are found on wetlands, plains, mountains and seacoasts, and in urban settings. These forests are as varied as the lands they occupy - from scattered conifers in the north to unusual arboreal travellers in the south, and from the imposing giants of Canada's coastal rain forest to the high-altitude survivors on rugged mountain slopes. The Forests of Canada combines outstanding colour photography with concise forest science information to present a contemporary picture of the varied tree species, landscape qualities and ecological composition of Canada's diverse forests. Additionally, it explores the Canadian approach to forest stewardship and the ongoing relationship Canadians maintain with the forests around them.

Forests of Canada

Science & Math

Farr, Ken

Biological Sciences

A practical book which describes how prop makers can create interesting and unusual stage props out of a variety of materials, such as papier mache, plaster, fibreglass and polystyrene. It is aimed at community, school and college drama societies.

Create Your Own Stage Props

Govier, Jacquie

Dramas & Plays

1971 Irwin mass market paperback, Canadian import. Emily Carr (Klee Wyck). Completed just before Emily Carr died in 1945, Growing Pains tells the story of Carr's life, beginning with her girlhood in pioneer Victoria and going on to her training as an artist in San Francisco, England and France. Also here is the frustration she felt at the rejection of her art by Canadians, of the years of despair when she stopped painting. She had to earn a living, and did so by running a small apartment-house, and her painful years of landladying and more joyful times raising dogs for sale, claimed all her time and energy. Then, towards the end of her life, came unexpected vindication and triumph when the Group of Seven accepted her as one of them. Throughout, the book is informed with Carr's passionatate love of and connection with nature.

Growing Pains : An Autobiography

CARR, Emily

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