Brenda Jones Livres

Nature's remedies are all around, if you know what to look for. In Medicinal Herbs of Eastern Canada, award-winning author and artist Brenda Jones offers detailed advice on how to identify, collect, and prepare a variety of local wild herbs. Learn how to make an infusion of goldenrod to treat a nasty cough, or a lemon balm tincture to help you sleep. Through many workshops, extensive research, and the help of Indigenous communities, Jones compiled this beautiful illustrated catalogue of healing herbs to help readers familiarize themselves with the medicines available in their own backyards. Covering 72 different plants, each with detailed, full-colour illustrations and accessible tips, facts, and recipes, this essential guide makes it easy to benefit from your neighbourhood's wild offerings. Includes a glossary of terms and a comprehensive index.

The definitive list of breed books, written by internationally-famed experts for serious dog people. Although most of the authors are British, the list has true trans-Atlantic appeal, and several titles have won coveted awards from the Dog Writers' Association of America. These include Bullmastiffs Today (Breed Book of the Year 1996/97), The Complete Rhodesian Ridgeback, The Complete Saluki, and Great Danes Today. A number of these titles were previously available in the U.S. through Howell Book House. Complete Border Collie sold 14,000 for Howell from March 1995 to December 2000. Still regarded as the best book on the subject.

In “ Bouncy and Cal’s Big Show ”, the third book in the Bouncy and Friends series, the reader finds Cal and Bouncy struggling to create a fun basketball routine for the school Talent Show. Cal’s mom shares with them the Power Behind the Yet and makes learning the new routine a “piece of cake” . It works, but then the night of the BIG SHOW they lose the piece of cake. Speedy and Yeti come to the rescue and get the piece of cake to the school before Cal performs in the Talent Show.In this fun and adventuresome picture book children discover the Power Behind the Yet and a secret tip on how to make learning a “piece of cake”. This book will help kids develop a Growth Mindset and perseverance by teaching them how to break down a task into smaller pieces. If you don’t first succeed, don’t just keep trying- break it down. It will be a piece of cake!This book has been written by Jim “Basketball” Jones and his wife Brenda Jones . Jim is a National Youth Motivational Speaker and Brenda is an award winning educator. Brenda is a kindergarten teacher and has been an educator for 27 years. This is the third book in a powerful children’s series they have created during the pandemic. They want kids to know that they are important and they can learn. It is ok to struggle. You just don’t know it YET!Find out more about Jim’s school assembly programs at www.JimBasketballJones.com.