Andrée Poulin

The legendary goalie who revolutionized the game of hockey

Young Jacques Plante's way of playing hockey may look different from everyone else's. Instead of a puck, he uses a tennis ball, and his shin pads are made out of potato sacks and wooden slats. But that's not going to stop him. He loves the game.

Jacques is drafted by the Montreal Canadiens in his mid-twenties. Fans love the unstoppable goalie as he leads his team to

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In a village in India with no toilets, Latika has to do her business in a field under the cover of darkness. After her grandmother is stung by a scorpion and her sister is forced to leave school because she has reached puberty, Latika seizes a chance to change their situation.

When Leanne complains that bath time is boring, her father runs down to the sea and brings back one turtle, two eels, and three clown fish.

A hungry little bear is trapped inside a dumpster. His distraught mama bear can't fish him out. Thankfully, a boy and his mother, camping nearby, come to the rescue. Although everyone in this story is scared, they are able to act with courage and compassion--showing readers that it's OK to be scared. This simple, moving story is told with variations on a single phrase: "He was scared." Readers are encouraged to be observant and put together the pieces...

La jeune Latika habite un village en Inde où il n'y a pas de toilettes. Dès qu'elle aura douze ans, elle sera en âge de devenir une mère et devra quitter l'école. Elle déteste le champ de la Honte, où les femmes se rendent la nuit pour faire leurs besoins. D'ailleurs, il est interdit d'en parler, car le sujet est tabou dans la communauté. Alors, quand un important représentant du gouvernement vient au village pour répondre à un besoin de...

"Pablo and his sister spend every day at "Treasure Mountain," the local dump. There, they rummage through the mounds of garbage looking for items that their mother can sell in order to provide food for the family. Occasionally, they find a "real" treasure like some still-edible food, or a picture book, which Pablo delights in, even though he can't read. The work is exhausting, and sometimes not very lucrative, but the worst thing they have to contend...