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Night Cars
by Teddy Jam
from Groundwood Books
It's late night in the city. From his father's shoulder, a sleepless baby watches the snow drift down from the sky onto the busy street below. What are all those noises? What are all those lights? His tired but patient father explains everything, from the bustle of taxis swishing through the slush to the grinding and slamming of the early-morning garbage trucks. Teddy Jam's lyrical prose and Eric Beddows's detailed illustrations cast Night Cars in that magical light between sleep and waking. A warm and witty tale for a cold winter's night.
The Charlotte Stories
by Teddy Jam
from Groundwood Books
Doctor Kiss Says Yes (A Groundwood Book)
ttuM (Charlotte Novels)
by Teddy Jam
from Groundwood Books
When Charlotte learns that her favorite teacher is leaving the school, she vows to hate the replacement forever. But she finds comfort one afternoon. After a baseball game in which she hits the ball so hard that it explodes, a strange dog follows her home in a rainstorm. The dog responds only to commands spoken backwards — emoC ereh! — so she names him ttuM. ttuM becomes Charlotte’s constant companion, even following the girl to her parents’ summer cottage on a lake. Everything seems to be fine until Charlotte becomes aware of a mysterious person who always dresses in black and likes to go canoeing — a witch! The witch’s house turns out to be just down the road, and it smells enticingly of gingerbread cookies. When ttuM disappears one night, grief-stricken Charlotte decides that she must summon up her courage and go looking for him, even if it means breaking into the witch’s house.
This New Baby
by Teddy Jam
from Groundwood Books
Poetic text and exquisite watercolors evoke a mother's love for her newborn child. "This new baby sleeps in my arms like a moon sleeping on a cloud, like apples falling through the rain, like a fish swimming through a sky." While baby wakes and sleeps and the night runs through to dawn, all the magic of this new life fills a new mother's heart.
The Kid Line
by Teddy Jam
from Groundwood Books
A boy’s father is a ticket scalper for Maple Leaf Gardens, a major sports stadium in Toronto. As a young boy, the father was schoolmates with the Conacher brothers, now famous hockey stars. His son knows their stories by heart. One night, Charlie Conacher appears and buys tickets to a game for himself and the father and son. A shared love of hockey and each other makes this a memorable tale.
The Year of Fire
Jacob's Best Sisters (Stella)
by Teddy Jam
from Groundwood Books
The Stoneboat
by Teddy Jam
from Groundwood Books
A young boy's father, like many of the local farmers, owes money to the powerful Mr. Richard. Although Mr. Richard has been unfriendly, when the boy sees him clearing a field of stones, he decides to lend a hand. The boy's father joins in, and by dawn the difficult job is completed and the debt has been forgiven. This historically accurate story of farm life in the '20s expands the author's series of stories about traditional rural life.
The Fishing Summer
by Teddy Jam
from Groundwood Books
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