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Barbara Nichol is an award-winning author and documentary maker, and a long time contributor to the CBC radio documentary series “Ideas.”Her book Dippers was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, and Biscuits in the Cupboard won the Mr. Christie’s Book Award. She is also well known as the author and director of the Juno award-winning original recording of Beethoven Lives Upstairs, and is the author of the book by the same title. Her film Home for Blind Women won the Genie for Best Short Film, and she was nominated for an Emmy for her work with Sesame Street. She... Read More
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Dippers
Written by Barbara Nichol
Illustrated by Barry Moser
Trade Paperback | Tundra Books | | 978-0-88776-549-0 (0-88776-549-1) | January 2001 | 9.99
Fragments of a handwritten letter have been discovered. Their author’s name is Margaret, and in the letter she describes her memories of a summer of her girlhood long ago when the dippers came up from the Don River.
It was 1912, and a summer full of odd happenings. The letter tells of... [read more]
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Dippers
Written by Barbara Nichol
Illustrated by Barry Moser
Hardcover | Tundra Books | | 978-0-88776-396-0 (0-88776-396-0) | April 1997 | 17.95
Fragments of a handwritten letter have been discovered. Their author’s name is Margaret, and in the letter she describes her memories of a summer of her girlhood long ago when the dippers came up from the Don River.
It was 1912, and a summer full of odd happenings. The letter tells of... [read more]
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One Small Garden
Written by Barbara Nichol
Illustrated by Barry Moser
Trade Paperback | Tundra Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - Nature - Flowers & Plants; Juvenile Nonfiction - Animals - Cats; Juvenile Nonfiction - Gardening | 978-0-88776-687-9 (0-88776-687-0) | February 2004 | 14.99
In One Small Garden, Barbara Nichol brings together stories, memories, and botany to create a book that is as unique and lush as a summer garden. Here, plants from all over the world live and eventually die. Ants, raccoons, and a stray cat cross paths with a lost cockatoo who originated... [read more]
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One Small Garden
Written by Barbara Nichol
Illustrated by Barry Moser
Hardcover | Tundra Books | | 978-0-88776-475-2 (0-88776-475-4) | August 2001 | 22.99
In One Small Garden, Barbara Nichol brings together stories, memories, and botany to create a book that is as unique and lush as a summer garden. Here, plants from all over the world live and eventually die. Ants, raccoons, and a stray cat cross paths with a lost cockatoo who originated... [read more]
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Safe and Sound
Written by Barbara Nichol
Illustrated by Anja Reichel
Hardcover | Tundra Books | | 978-0-88776-633-6 (0-88776-633-1) | September 2003 | 22.99
Safe and Sound are two small dogs with big ideas: they want to see the world. But the world is not what they expect. First of all, who knew that planes fly so high? that the English Channel includes waves? that in Australia it is autumn when everyone knows it should... [read more]
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Tales of Don Quixote
Retold by Barbara Nichol
Hardcover | Tundra Books | Juvenile Fiction - Classics; Juvenile Fiction - Ethnic - Hispanic & Latino | 978-0-88776-674-9 (0-88776-674-9) | November 2004 | 22.99
Finalist in the Nautilus 2005 Book Awards
Determined to right wrongs and win fame, Don Quixote of La Mancha embarks on what he sees as the proper exploits of a knight errant. On his faithful steed, Rocinante, and with his squire, Sancho Panza, he travels the Spanish countryside in search of adventure.
But... [read more]
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Tales of Don Quixote, Book II
Retold by Barbara Nichol
Hardcover | Tundra Books | Juvenile Fiction - Classics; Juvenile Fiction - Ethnic - Hispanic & Latino | 978-0-88776-744-9 (0-88776-744-3) | October 2006 | 24.99
Four hundred years ago, Miguel de Cervantes wrote The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha — the story of a Spanish gentleman who thought he was a knight. Spurred by the books of chivalry he read, Don Quixote set out with his neighbor, the fat and friendly Sancho Panza, to... [read more]
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Trunks All Aboard
Written by Barbara Nichol
Illustrated by W. Cornelius Van Horne
Hardcover | Tundra Books | | 978-0-88776-536-0 (0-88776-536-X) | March 2001 | 18.99
When Grandpa goes traveling, he sends home postcards. But these are no ordinary postcards, and Grandpa is no ordinary man. At the turn of the century, Sir William Cornelius Van Horne was one of the most influential businessmen in North America. While in Europe in 1909, retired railroad president William Cornelius... [read more]
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