Sydney Smith – lisa疯马秀 Publishing and Vagrant Press lisa疯马秀 Publishing is the largest English-language publisher east of Toronto Thu, 27 Jun 2024 11:01:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 153484567 Flight of the Griffons /store/flight-of-the-griffons.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=flight-of-the-griffons Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:44:23 +0000 /store/flight-of-the-griffons.html/flight-of-the-griffons In Flight of the Griffons, the sequel to The Dread Crew: Pirates of the Backwoods, we follow young Missy Bullseye as she ventures from her pirate crew鈥檚 adopted Nova Scotian home base to begin probationary work terms along the road to union-certified junking. From the deep northern woods of Ontario and Quebec to the great western prairies, Missy wanders far on a secret mission鈥攐ne that turns her against her own.

While tracking and spying on a blacklisted crew, Missy encounters mechanical moths, an outlawed tilt-rotor airship, a mega-pipeline, and the unexpected sound of grassland drums. What she discovers along the way is that heroes can look like villains, crimes can look like profit, and heights aren鈥檛 so bad鈥攁s long as a true-hearted pirate is holding the rope. Includes 15 full-page illustrations from artist Sydney Smith.

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]]> 56001 There Were Monkeys in My Kitchen (pb) /store/there-were-monkeys-in-my-kitchen-pb.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=there-were-monkeys-in-my-kitchen-pb Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:42:52 +0000 /store/there-were-monkeys-in-my-kitchen-pb.html/there-were-monkeys-in-my-kitchen-pb Willa Wellowby鈥檚 house has been overrun by monkeys. They鈥檙e ballet dancing, playing the bagpipes, listening to the Beatles, and causing mayhem and destruction all over the house and yard. And the more Willa asks them to leave, the more havoc they wreak. She calls the police, the RCMP, the FBI, and Scotland Yard to get rid of these monkeys鈥ut when the Mounties finally show up, it鈥檚 Willa who鈥檚 in trouble!

First published in 1992, There Were Monkeys in My Kitchen won the Canadian Children鈥檚 Book Centre Mr. Christie Award for Best Canadian Children鈥檚 book, ages 8 and under. This new softcover edition will introduce the bestselling book to a whole new generation.

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]]> 54200 Mabel Murple (pb) /store/mabel-murple-pb.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mabel-murple-pb Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:39:39 +0000 /store/mabel-murple-pb.html/mabel-murple-pb What if there was a purple planet with purple people on it? Sheree Fitch answers this question with a zany tongue-twister of a poem featuring Mabel Murple, a daredevil who rides a purple motorbike through purple puddles, skis on purple snow, and on her pancakes pours maple syrup.

With a rich and vivid purple palette, Sydney Smith's brand-new illustrations reflect the wild joy in this classic poem. Originally published in 1995, Mabel Murple won the Ann Connor Brimer award for children's literature.

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]]> 53024 Dread Crew /store/dread-crew-2.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dread-crew-2 Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:37:26 +0000 /store/dread-crew-pb.html/dread-crew-pb The pirates of the Dread Crew, ruthless junk hunters, are on the rampage through the Maritime woods. On their trail is a boy pirate tracker Eric Stewart, who gathers mounting evidence of their hooliganism until one day their clue-laden path of destruction completely disappears. Little does Eric know that the rumbling, stinking pirates are much, much closer than he thinks. This paperback edition includes eight pages of new content including a pirate glossary and praise pages. Check out dreadcrew.com for lots more additional content!

This book is recommended for antsy boys who long for glory, for spritely girls inclined to reach out for adventure, and for good-humored grown-ups who like the smack of Limburger and devils's club sandwiches with a dash of junebug pepper.

The Dread Crew: Pirates of the Backwoods contains things disgusting, rude, repulsive and crush-like in nature. It also includes the most gigantic party ever seen, a rampaging woodship, random explosions, a prison, an escape, inventions, blackberry sploosh and many, many secrets as well as unexplained stinks.

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]]> 53185 Music is for Everyone /store/music-is-for-everyone.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=music-is-for-everyone Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:35:14 +0000 /store/music-is-for-everyone.html/music-is-for-everyone Music is for Everyone is sure to get you excited about making music! Singer-songwriter Jill Barber takes her young readers through many different kinds of music--hip hop, jazz, classical, folk--and instruments in an energetic, rhyming tour. Sydney Smith's gleeful illustrations capture all the joy that comes from making music--in all its forms!

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]]> 53102 Toes in My Nose /store/toes-in-my-nose-2.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=toes-in-my-nose Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:26:53 +0000 /store/toes-in-my-nose.html/toes-in-my-nose The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of Canada's nonsense poet's classic book, illustrated by Governor General's Award-winning illustrator Sydney Smith, portrays a neighbourhood of kids flying to the moon, playing banjo with orangutans, and bathing with submarines. Now available in paperback.

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]]> 53230 Music is for Everyone /store/music-is-for-everyone-2.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=music-is-for-everyone-2 Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:24:17 +0000 /store/music-is-for-everyone-2 Music is for Everyone is sure to get you excited about making music! Singer-songwriter Jill Barber takes her young readers through many different kinds of music鈥攈ip hop, jazz, classical, folk鈥攁nd instruments in an energetic, rhyming tour. Sydney Smith鈥檚 gleeful illustrations capture all the joy that comes from making music鈥攊n all its forms!

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]]> 82204 Dread Crew /store/dread-crew-1.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dread-crew Sat, 14 Sep 2019 04:05:08 +0000 /store/dread-crew.html/dread-crew The pirates of the Dread Crew, ruthless junk hunters, are on the rampage through the Maritime woods. On their trail is a boy pirate tracker Eric Stewart, who gathers mounting evidence of their hooliganism until one day their clue-laden path of destruction completely disappears. Little does Eric know that the rumbling, stinking pirates are much, much closer than he thinks. This paperback edition includes eight pages of new content including a pirate glossary and praise pages. Check out dreadcrew.com for lots more additional content!

This book is recommended for antsy boys who long for glory, for spritely girls inclined to reach out for adventure, and for good-humored grown-ups who like the smack of Limburger and devils's club sandwiches with a dash of junebug pepper.

The Dread Crew: Pirates of the Backwoods contains things disgusting, rude, repulsive and crush-like in nature. It also includes the most gigantic party ever seen, a rampaging woodship, random explosions, a prison, an escape, inventions, blackberry sploosh and many, many secrets as well as unexplained stinks.

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