The Library Bus

Sara Leach

illustrated by Rebecca Bender

The third title in the collection that began with USBBY Outstanding International Book Slug Days. Lauren, a third-grade student who has Autism Spectrum Disorder, takes on the challenges of sharing her best friend and persevering when a classmate mocks her bicycle’s training wheels.

Irma is Lauren’s best friend. Irma knows all the strategies Lauren uses when her Autism Spectrum Disorder makes it hard to “go with the flow.” Lauren helps Irma learn English words and understand unfamiliar customs. So why does Irma suddenly want to introduce Lauren to her mountain-biking, litter-dropping neighbor Jonas? Why is Irma calling Jonas her friend?

As if sharing Irma weren’t bad enough, Lauren also has an alarming new problem at school. Their teacher has announced a mountain biking day when the students will still uses training wheels. She just can’t face the teasing she will get when her classmates see them. She isn’t brave like Irma. She can’t go with the flow like Dad. How can she possibly face this challenge?

From author Sara Leach and illustrator Rebecca Bender comes an honest and warm-hearted successor to the critically acclaimed Slug Days and Penguin Days. With straightlearn to ride their bikes on an obstacle course. But Lauren

forward text and frequent black-and-white illustrations, Duck Days is an accessible chapter book for any young reader with mountains of their own to climb.

Sara Leach hails from Whistler, BC, where she loves to ski, hike and bike. Her middle grade novel Count Me In won the Red Cedar Book Award for 2012/13. In addition to being a children’s author, she is also an elementary school teacher-librarian. She has had the privilege of teaching several amazing students with Autism Spectrum Disorder, and her experience working with them inspired her chapter books Slug Days, Penguin Days, and Duck Days.

Rebecca Bender is a well-loved author-illustrator of children’s books as well as an art director and designer. Her books include the popular Giraffe and Bird collection, How Do You Feel? and the illustrations for Peach Girl by Raymond Namakura, as well as those for the acclaimed Slug Days, Penguin Days, and Duck Days written by Sara Leach. Rebecca’s awards and honors include the OLA Blue Spruce Award, a Cooperative Children’s Book Center best-of-the-year choice, and a Toronto Public Library best-of-the-year selection. She graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design at the top of her class, earning the Medal for Illustration. Rebecca lives in Burlington, Ontario, with her husband and two children.

HC ISBN: 978-1-77278-022-2 PB ISBN: 978-1-77278-032-1 List Price: $16.95 USD / $18.95 CAD HC $12.95 USD / $14.95 CAD PB | $9.95 USD / $11.95 CAD ebook

Juvenile Fiction for Children Ages 7–10 Rights available: World ex. North America ISBN: 978-1-77278-148-9 Trim Size: 5.5 x 7.5 in / 13.97 x 19.05 cm | Pages: 120 List Price: $16.95 USD / $18.95 CAD Hardcover with dust jacket | $12.95 USD / CAD ebook Publication Date: November 10, 2020 Ship Date: October 16, 2020 JUV039150 JUVENILE FICTION / Disabilities & Special Needs JUV039060 JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship JUV039230 JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Bullying JUV032180 JUVENILE FICTION / Sports & Recreation / Cycling

ISBN: 978-1-77278-053-6 List Price: $15.95 USD / $17.95 CAD HC $9.95 USD / $11.95 CAD ebook

Sue Farrell Holler

illustrated by Jennifer Faria Lipke

A boy greets animal neighbors on a snowy walk, learning their names and tracks from his beloved grandfather.

In an intergenerational winter’s story full of quiet wonder, a little boy takes his grandfather for a walk down a forest trail. The boy shows Grandpa how to jump in the snow and how to make it make it splash into the creek. Grandpa shows the boy rabbit tracks and deer hiding among the trees. They greet their animal neighbors by name: Raven, Rabbit, Deer, Sparrow. Back home, the little boy sets the table with cookies while Grandpa pours the milk. It has been a glorious afternoon, and soon there will be books and blankets and the big armchair by the fire. In Raven, Rabbit, Deer, Governor General Award-nominated author Sue Farrell Holler casts a spell of simple wonder as a small child earnestly sets out to take care of his grandfather for the day. Grandpa wisely gratifies this sweet self-importance while passing on important lessons: how to greet a raven…how to know a deer’s tracks… how to be family. Illustrator Jennifer Faria Lipke, a member of the Chippewas of Rama First Nation, draws on her Indigenous heritage in illustrations so cozy they make the winter’s day feel warm.

Sue Farrell Holler is the Governor General’s Award-nominated author of the YA novel Cold White Sun as well as the middlegrade novel Lacey and the African Grandmothers and several picture books. Sue grew up on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, where she wrote avidly to more than a hundred pen pals across North America. She later channelled her passion for writing into journalism studies at the University of King’s College in Halifax. Sue has lived in the Northwest Territories and today resides in Grande Prairie, Alberta.

Jennifer Faria Lipke is an illustrator, graphic designer, and painter who studied at Central Technical School and George Brown College in Toronto. Her works can be found in the collections of celebrities, politicians, and especially parents, as one of her specialties is portraits of babies and small children. Jennifer is a member of the Chippewas of Rama First Nation and drew on her Indigenous heritage in illustrating Raven, Rabbit, Deer, her first picture book. She lives in Burlington, Ontario with her husband and three children.

Picture Book for Children Ages 4–7 Rights available: World ex. North America ISBN: 978-1-77278-136-6 Trim Size: 9 x 8 in / 22.86 x 20.32 cm | Pages: 32 List Price: $17.95 USD / $19.95 CAD Hardcover with dust jacket Publication Date: November 24, 2020 Ship Date: November 6, 2020 JUV013030 JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Multigenerational JUV030090 JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / Canada / Indigenous JUV011040 JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / Native American JUV024000 JUVENILE FICTION / Lifestyles / Country Life JUV074000 JUVENILE FICTION / Diversity & Multicultural JUV002290 JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Deer, Moose & Caribou JUV029000 JUVENILE FICTION / Science & Nature / General