Something from Nothing

Something from Nothing

Author: Phoebe Gilman

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2017-04-25

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 1338208497

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Joseph's grandfather transforms his blanket many times over the years, but what can be done when the final item is lost? Gilman's version of this Yiddish folk tale won the 1993 Ruth Schwartz Award. When Joseph was a baby, his grandfather made him a wonderful blanket. But as Joseph grows older, the blanket becomes tattered and worn. Throw it out! cries Joseph's mother. Luckily, Grandpa is an extraordinary tailor. He can fix anything! And so with a snip! snip! here, and a few stitches there, Grandpa transforms the treasured blanket into a jacket, a vest, a Sabbath tie, a handkerchief, and finally a beautiful button. But when the button is lost, even Grandpa can't help. After all, how can you make something from nothing?In a rich and loving portrait of shtetl life, Phoebe Gilman presents a traditional Jewish folktale about family love and ingenuity that will warm the hearts of readers young and old.


The Blue Hippopotamus

The Blue Hippopotamus

Author: Phoebe Gilman

Publisher: Scholastic Canada

Published: 2013-04

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1443124389

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Now in paperback - Phoebe Gilman and Joanne Fitzgerald's beautiful story about the transformative power of love. When a little hippo falls in love with an Egyptian princess, he hopes that a great magician can turn him into a human boy. Alas, even the magician can't perform such a feat! Instead, the magician turns him into a toy that the princess can playwith - a beautiful blue hippo on wheels. The princess adores her toy and takes him everywhere with her. But little girls don't play with toys forever. The princess grows up and yearns for a true love. Can the hippo make her wish come true? Based on a story by Joan Grant, The Blue Hippopotamus was Phoebe Gilman's final book. The illustrations by Joanne Fitzgerald were inspired by sketches Phoebe drew before her death in 2002. *A Governor General's Award nominee!


The Gypsy Princess

The Gypsy Princess

Author: Phoebe Gilman

Publisher:

Published: 1998-11

Total Pages: 29

ISBN-13: 9780590038379

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A gypsy girl who gets the opportunity to live in a palace as a princess finds she prefers her gypsy life after all.


Little Blue Ben

Little Blue Ben

Author: Phoebe Gilman

Publisher: Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada

Published: 2004-02-01

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 9780439961639

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A Phoebe Gilman classic, reissued in a larger format for the first time! Little Blue Ben and his brother Blue Cat are sick and tired of eating the blue eggs their mother boils, bakes, toasts and fries for them. So they decide to play hide and seek--whoever loses has to eat all the other's blue eggs. Fans young and old will love searching for Blue Ben as he disappears into the pages of the book. Phoebe Gilman has taken the classic Mother Goose rhyme and extended it into a favourite picture book, with whimsical illustrations that will delight readers of all ages.


A Treasury of Jillian Jiggs

A Treasury of Jillian Jiggs

Author: Phoebe Gilman

Publisher:

Published: 2008-08-01

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780545993166

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All five best-selling Jillian Jiggs books, now in one oversized treasury, perfect for gift-giving! "Jillian, Jillian, Jillian Jiggs, it looks like your room has been lived in by pigs!" Every Canadian kid knows Jillian Jiggs, as well as its sequels: The Wonderful Pigs of Jillian Jiggs, Jillian Jiggs to the Rescue, Jillian Jiggs and the Secret Surprise, and Jillian Jiggs and the Great Big Snow. Now all five best-selling volumes are collected into this oversized treasury, including instructions for making your own wonderful pig and the complete stageplay, "The Chicken Princess."


Jillian Jiggs and the Great Big Snow

Jillian Jiggs and the Great Big Snow

Author: Phoebe Gilman

Publisher: Scholastic Canada

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 1443119490

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Rediscover the magic of a snowy day on the 10th anniversary of this delightful Jillian Jiggs story! "Jillian, Jillian, say it's not true. How do you lose all the things that you do?" Jillian wants to go play in the snow with her sister and her friends, but her mom says no - not until she finds her hat! So instead, Jillian wears a Martian hat from the costume box. Of course, that means the snowscape needs to be turned into Mars, with cosmic landscapes, aliens, and flying space sleds. As the creativity flows, though, Jillian loses not only her hat (again), but her scarf and mitts too! What is Mom going to say? Sledding, snowmen, and wild flights of imagination abound in Phoebe Gilman's first-ever wintertime Jillian Jiggs story. Celebrate a wonderful, snowy decade of Jillian Jiggs and the Great Big Snow with this sparkly 10th anniversary edition of the much-loved story. Have fun, and try not to lose your mittens!


Jillian Jiggs and the Secret Surprise

Jillian Jiggs and the Secret Surprise

Author: Phoebe Gilman

Publisher: Scholastic Canada

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 27

ISBN-13: 9780439957816

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Jillian Jiggs and her friends are back... and this time they're putting on a show! Jillian doesn't have any money to buy her little sister Rebecca's birthday present. Her friends Peter and Rachel remind her that the best presents are the ones that you make, so Jillian decides that they should surprise Rebecca by putting on a play. But things don't happen exactly the way she planned and Jillian winds up with a few surprises of her own!


Once Upon a Golden Apple

Once Upon a Golden Apple

Author: Jean Little

Publisher: Puffin HC

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780140541649

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While on a picnic, a father puts together familiar elements from various stories until he comes up with a version his children like.


The Muffin Dragon

The Muffin Dragon

Author: Stephen Cosgrove

Publisher: Heritage Builders

Published: 2013-10

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781939011596

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In a far corner of the Island of Serendipity stood the poorest of poor castles. Everything was poor including the villagers who lived inside. No matter how poor, the villagers took the greatest of pride in the baking and selling of muffins Every morning, villagers loaded them onto their only wagon and went from village to village selling all the muffins. One day there appeared at the castle a great and monstrous dragon—a muffin-munching dragon. With crumbs still on his face from the muffins he'd eaten at the last castle he'd visited, the dragon came waddling down the hill, right up to the drawbridge. From the smell of things, this was a perfect place for a muffin-munching dragon to live. From that day forward, he ate all of the muffins. With no muffins to sell, the castle folk had no money to buy supplies to bake more muffins. All would have ended here had they not all learned to work together. A delightful tale about simple economics.