Yvonne Cathcart

Barbara is big. She has big hands and big feet and she is taller and weighs more than any of her friends. She is so big that normal-kid running shoes don’t fit. Learn how Barbara comes to accept herself and to like how she looks.

When Janey was a young girl, she had a problem learning to read. The only person who seemed to recognize her difficulty was the effervescent Hattie Pearl. Told in flashback and set in the 1940s.

Allison has an imagination that makes every experience an adventure. Her wild coloured clothes make her think she is a peacock. When she is angry she sees herself as a roaring lion. As she tells her big sister, “It’s a jungle in here.”

When the first juice can was thrown into her backyard, Katherine had no idea what trouble that bit of litter would cause. Wonderfully fun, Katherine and the Garbage Dump recounts a story with a strong environmental component.

Making muffins provides a wonderful opportunity to spend time with Mom or Dad, read directions, measure, stir, pour, set a timer, and eat!

Bears are big, and scary, and dangerous. Robyn knows if she sees one she'll have a great story to tell for years to come. So when she arrives to spend the summer at her cousin's lodge at Thunder Mountain, she doesn't wait for the bears to come to her.

Robyn lies awake at night, writing and rewriting the bear story in her head. When she's asked to m …

Robyn is sure she is in big trouble with the school librarian. She published a school newspaper with a spelling mistake in the headline — "Mr Lee Smells Foul." In class they talk about democracy and freedom of the press, but now the principal is telling her she's not allowed to publish the newspaper without teachers' supervision. Robyn's ready to …

Robyn gets to choose where her class will go on their next field trip. Inspired by the local newspaper's drawing contest she chooses the art gallery--and everyone, even her best friend Marie, expects to have a boring time.

The art gallery turns out to be great: there are huge, colourful paintings covering whole walls; a robotic chair-sculpture that …

Robyn sneaks a stray kitten into the apartment, but her mother makes her take it back outside.

Robyn feels The Raft, the class play, is unfair because it casts only three roles to the boys known as the 3"G's. Robyn starts her own play, The Monster that Ate the World, and learns how difficult it is to organize everything by herself. With the help of some classmates Robyn pulls it off, and finds that her feelings change.YVONNE CATHCART is an i …

When Robyn starts planning her birthday party, her mother makes just one rule: everyone from Robyn's class has to be invited. This isn't what Robyn has in mind, mostly because of the Three G's who can make a lot of trouble when they are all together. When Robyn delivers the invitations, her best friend Marie acts very strangely. Then Robyn deliver …

"Wanted: Older Brother. Good at Math. Wicked on skateboard. Must share TV time." Robyn is so sick of being an only child, she places a want ad in the local newspaper.

But the only person who replies is her neighbour Ari, and he just wants to avoid his piano lessons. Ari seems like the most boring pretend-brother in the world: they don't skateboard …

Robyn is the world's greatest singer. Well, not yet maybe, but one day she intends to be. She takes piano lessons and practices her scales, pays attention in music class and watches what the divas are wearing on TV.

The only problem is that Robyn hasn't sung very much. And that she doesn't know the words to many songs. So when she arranges to perfo …

Robyn's friend Marie knows how to skate and would like to help Robyn be more confident on the ice. At the rink near her home Robyn finds that she can take group lessons and participate in the Carnival on Ice. She is much older and taller than all the kids in her group and her instructor is her classmate Jessica. She feels a little humiliated but p …

Robyn befriends her unpopular classmate Shelly, even though they have very different interests -- Shelly likes dolls! But when Shelly's dad wins tickets to the big hockey game, Shelly suddenly becomes the most popular girl in school. What will their classmates think of Shelly doesn't actually get to attend the game? Will Robyn lie to protect her fr …

Shaira loves the wonderful Indian foods her grandmother prepares. But afraid her school friends will think them strange, Shaira hides her lunch everyday. Treasure for Lunch is a celebration one’s heritage.

Rilla sometimes gets into trouble at school. But Rilla when that happens she uses magic to transform herself into Wild Rilla, unrecognizable to all who know her. Discovering how Rilla solves problems will delight readers eight and under.