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- Kindergarten, Here I Come!. by Lesnick, Charlotte,film director.; Steinberg, D.J.,actor.; Penguin Random House (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
D.J. SteinbergOriginally produced by Penguin Random House in 2021.This adorable picture book celebrates all the familiar milestones and moments shared by every single kindergartener. Whether it’s the first-day-of-school jitters or the hundredth-day-of-school party, every aspect of the kindergarten experience is introduced with a light and funny poem–not to mention charming illustrations. Written by D.J. Steinberg, illustrated by Mark Chambers.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Subjects: Education films.; Children's stories.;
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- Melrose and Croc : a hero's birthday / by Chichester Clark, Emma.;
An adorable golden labrador and a tiny tiny crocodile make the unlikeliest of friends, but their adventures through everyday experiences will make them an endearing duo for parents and children alike.
- Subjects: Birthdays; Crocodiles; Dogs; Friendship; Golden retriever;
- © 2008., HarperCollins Children's Books,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Where you end and I begin : a memoir / by McLaren, Leah,author.;
"A daughter's riveting, devastating portrait of her relationship with her mother, a brilliant and charismatic woman haunted by childhood sexual trauma. When an eight-year-old Leah McLaren's parents get divorced, her mother, Cessie, flees her conventional life as a suburban housewife in search of a glamorous journalism career. In the chaotic years that follow, with her daughter in tow, Cessie lurches from one apartment, job and toxic romance to the next. Their bond is loving but also marked by casual indifference. Cessie's self-described parenting style of "benign neglect" is a hilarious party joke and Leah's stark reality. Their family motto, "Commitment sucks the life right out of you" is tacked up on every rental fridge. Inside the shelves are empty. During Leah's first year of high school she becomes gripped with anxiety following a troubling early sexual experience at a party. Cessie, in turn, makes a disclosure that will alter everything: from the age of twelve to fifteen, she was in a clandestine relationship with her middle-aged, married riding instructor. The damage inflicted by the "Horseman," Cessie explains, is the reason for all her ill-conceived life choices, including marriage, divorce and even motherhood itself. Both women will spend decades haunted by the specter of the Horseman, until they decide to investigate what became of him--an ill-conceived quest that will test the bonds of love and redefine their relationship forever. Written with searing candour and merciless wit, Where You End and I Begin is an intimate exploration of the ways intergenerational trauma is shared between women, and how acts of harm can be confused with acts of love"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; McLaren, Leah; McLaren, Leah; Adult children of divorced parents; Children of divorced parents; Children of divorced parents; Children of rape victims; Mothers and daughters; Authors, Canadian (English);
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Peppa Pig. [videorecording] / by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Pack your bags and join Peppa Pig and her family and friends as they travel around the world. Every day brings new experiences for Peppa, but these twelve peppasodes are especially oinktastic. For the first time, Peppa and her family travel to America. They explore New York, the city that never sleeps, eat at a diner down south, venture through the Grand Canyon, and then star in a movie filmed in Hollywood, lights, camera, Peppa. Learn all about planes, trains, helicopters, camper vans, even monster trucks, as you explore the many wonders of the world with Peppa and friends. So grab your Peppa passport and see the world through your favorite little pig's eyes.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 2.0.
- Subjects: Animated television programs.; Children's television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Peppa Pig (Fictitious character); Families; Swine;
- For private home use only.
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Bill Nye the science guy. [videorecording (DVD)] / by Nye, Bill; Gottlieb, Erren; McKenna, James; Disney Educational Productions; National Science Foundation (U.S.); KCTS (Television station : Seattle, Wash.); Rabbit Ears Productions;
Host, Bill Nye."Thousands of earthquakes happen each year and Bill Nye the Science Guy trembles in his boots when he explains what causes them. In Earthquakes, find out what makes big pieces of the Earth's crust [the plates] move and what you should have on hand in case of a quake"--Container.E.DVD.
- Subjects: Earthquakes; Science; Science television programs; Video recordings for children; Video recordings for the hearing impaired;
- © c2004., Disney Educational Productions,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The girl in the middle : growing up between black and white, rich and poor / by Granofsky, Anais,author.;
"A moving and vivid memoir of a young girl switching between worlds, wanting only to be loved. When Anais Granofsky's parents met at Antioch College in Ohio in the early 1970s, they were each foreign and fascinating to the other - he, Stanley, the son of fantastically wealthy Jewish family from Toronto and she, Jean, one of 15 children from a poor Black Methodist family who are the direct descendants of the freed Randolph slaves. When they became pregnant at 19 and 22, they didn't anticipate being cut off by the wealthy Granofskys. Neither did they anticipate that Stanley, soon to rename himself Fakeer, would find his calling in the spiritual teaching of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (subject of the Netflix doc Wild, Wild Country) and leave his family for the ashram in India. The Girl in the Middle is the story of the child that was born into these two, very different worlds and who spent her life navigating between them. Alone, Anais and her mother teetered on the poverty line, sharing a mattress in a single room in social housing in Toronto, while her grandparents lived a twenty-minute car ride away on the mansion-lined Bridle Path. As Anais grew up, she was invited to spend weekends with her wealthy grandmother, putting on special clothes when she arrived and being served lunch by the pool, while often she and her mother did not know where their next meal would come from. Anais soon realized that if she wanted to be loved, she had to learn to live two lives. Anais's memoir offers a powerful lens into how these two families, one white and one Black, faced systematic oppression spanning multiple generations and came out at opposite economic classes-and how they clashed when they shared a granddaughter. With compassionate and vivid storytelling, Granofsky shares her experiences of living with each foot in opposing worlds and explores generational shame, grief, and prejudice, and ultimately love and forgiveness. Based on the viral Toronto Life article."--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Granofsky, Anais; Granofsky, Anais; Poor; Television actors and actresses; Black Canadians;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Almost brown : a mixed-race family memoir / by Gill, Charlotte,1971-author.;
"An award-winning writer retraces her dysfunctional, biracial, globe-trotting family's journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household. Charlotte Gill's father is Indian. Her mother is English. They meet in 1960's London when the world is not quite ready for interracial love. Their union, a revolutionary act, results in a total meltdown of familial relations, a lot of immigration paperwork, and three children, all in varying shades of tan. Together they set off on a journey from the United Kingdom to Canada and to the United States in elusive pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness--a dream that eventually tears them apart. Almost Brown is an exploration of diasporic intermingling involving parents of two different races and their half-brown children as they experience the paradoxes and conundrums of life as it's lived between race checkboxes. Eventually, her parents drift apart because they just aren't compatible. But as she finds herself distancing from her father too--why is she embarrassed to walk down the street with him and not her mom?--she doesn't know if it's because of his personality or his race. As a mixed-race child, was this her own unconscious bias favoring one parent over the other in the racial tug-of-war that plagues our society? Almost Brown looks for answers to questions shared by many mixed-race people: What are you? What does it mean to be a person of color when the concept is a societal invention and really only applies halfway if you are half white? And how does your relationship with your parents change as you change and grow older? In a funny, turbulent, and ultimately heartwarming story, Gill examines the brilliant messiness of ancestry, "diversity," and the idea of "race," a historical concept that still informs our beliefs about ethnicity today"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Gill, Charlotte, 1971-; Gill, Charlotte, 1971-; Identity (Psychology); Immigrants; Race awareness in children.; Racially mixed families; Racially mixed families; Racially mixed people; Racially mixed people; Racially mixed women; Women authors, Canadian; Race;
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- Summer of '69 / by Hilderbrand, Elin,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, nothing is the same: Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and unable to travel. Middle sister Kirby, caught up in the thrilling vortex of civil rights protests and determined to be independent, takes a summer job on Martha's Vineyard. Only-son Tiger is an infantry soldier, recently deployed to Vietnam. Thirteen-year-old Jessie suddenly feels like an only child, marooned in the house with her out-of-touch grandmother and her worried mother, each of them hiding a troubling secret. As the summer heats up, Ted Kennedy sinks a car in Chappaquiddick, man flies to the moon, and Jessie and her family experience their own dramatic upheavals along with the rest of the country.
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Families; Nineteen sixties;
- Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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- Beyond bananas and condoms : the LGBTQIA+ inclusive sex education you never got at school / by Whitnell, Dee,author,illustrator.;
"Whatever your age, gender or identity -- there's one thing we seem to all have in common: how little we learnt in school about sex, relationships, gender identity, and sexuality. This sex-positive resource aims to provide the inclusive sex education you didn't get in the classroom -- complete with illustrations that show our beautiful, baffling bodies in all their glory. With chapters on gender, sexuality and expression, genitalia and hormones, sexual health and contraception, and the importance of boundaries and consent -- this comprehensive guide celebrates identities of all kinds -- and embraces the difference between cisgender and gender-diverse experiences. If your school sex-ed was much too cishet, this is the shame-free guide you need to explore bodies, boundaries and pleasure -- without a banana in sight"--
- Subjects: Gender identity; Interpersonal relations; Sex instruction for children; Sex instruction for teenagers;
- Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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- Vehicle counting. by 7 Cats Press.;
Lions and giraffes--start your engines! Get ready to learn all about numbers in this adorable touch-and-feel book full of cool vehicles and silly animals. Make counting fun with this unique early-learning gem! Bumpy format creates a tactile experience that little kids love! Fun images with bright, contrasting colors are perfect for small children. Books with Bumps series also includes Ocean Counting, Vehicle Colors, and Animal Colors .
- Subjects: Board books.; Textured books.; Counting; Colors;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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