Moving
A Kiss Goodbye
Chester Raccoon (whom readers have come to know and love through The Kissing Hand and its sequel A Pocket Full of Kisses) is very unhappy about leaving his home, a tree that has been marked by tree cutters, but his mother tries to convince him that their new home might be even better.
A new room for William
William and his family have moved to a new house in a new neighbourhood. At first William isn't very happy because his new room is not very cheerful. But after he meets a new friend and helps his Mom decorate, he starts to feel much better.
Bandit
When Bandit's family moves to a new house, the cat runs away and returns to the only home he knows, but after he is brought back, he understands that the new house is now home.
Elsie's Bird
Elsie is a city girl. She loves the noise of the cobbled streets of Boston. But when her mother dies and her father moves them to the faraway prairies of Nebraska, Elsie hears only the silence, and she feels alone in the wide sea of grass. Her only comfort is her canary, Timmy Tune. Then Timmy flies out the window, and Elsie is forced to run after him, into the tall grass of the prairie, where she's finally able to hear the voice of the prairie - beautiful and noisy - and she begins to feel at home. Jane Yolen and David Small create a remarkable, poetic, vividly rendered book about finding one's place in the world.
Goodbye House
Just before leaving with his family for the move to their new home, Little Bear says goodbye to all his favorite places in and around his old house.
Goodbye to Griffith Street
John finds a special way to say goodbye to his friends on Griffith Street in a small mining town in the mid-1940s.
Half a world away
When Louie's best friend Amy moves to the other side of the world, Louie must find a way to reconnect with her.
I know here
When she finds out that her family will be moving from northeastern Saskatchewan to Toronto, a young girl tries to find a way to hang on to the things that she has seen in her old home when she moves to this new city.
I like where I am
The rhyming story of a six-year-old boy who is sad about moving to a new home but ends up being happy when he gets there.
My best friend moved away
After her best friend moves away, a little girl misses the special times they had together.
Nini here and there
Fearing at first that her family is going on vacation without her, Nini the cat ends up traveling with her owners to their new home.
Rosa's Room
Rosa searches for things that will fill her room in her new home, but it feels empty until she discovers exactly what is missing.
The garden wall
Already unhappy that his family has moved from the country to the city, Tim is not pleased when his new neighbor turns out to be not only a girl, but also deaf.
The trip
One of Keats' best-loved characters, Louie, stars in this poignant story about the loneliness of moving to a new place. Homesick for his old neighborhood, Louie finds a way to return by making a shoe box model of where he used to live, and pretending he is inside it. But soon, Louie will discover that he doesn t need to use his imagination to find friends; in fact, they may be as close as his new front door.
Trick-or-treat on Milton Street
Charley is sure that the first Halloween in his new house will be awful, until his stepfather takes him out trick-or-treating.
Where's Jamela?
When Mama tells Jamela about her new job and a new place for them to live, Mama is excited but Jamela isn't. She likes so many things about the house they live in now -- the squeaky front gate she swings on, the view from her window, the neighborhood sounds and smells. But on moving day Jamela is ready to help -- although none of the grownups are prepared for the silly mixup caused by her "helping."The ensuing fun helps smooth the transition from old to new in this colorful township tale about a little girl's moving-away woes that will comfort and encourage anyone who has had to learn to sleep in a new room.
