The creators of CHECK ON ME and FIRST DAY ask a very important question: What do you want to be when you grow up? The answers are sure to entertain and amuse parents and kids alike! What do you want to be when you grow up? A performer? An astronaut? A secret agent? From the team who brought you FIRST DAY and CHECK ON ME comes a gorgeous and funny picture book about big dreams and even bigger imaginations! Ages 3+ 'Written with just as much enthusiasm and energy as its bright and colourful, varied and visually appetising illustrations, WHEN I GROW UP is fetchingly engaging and brilliantly stupendous. Perfect for classroom discussions' -- CBCA READING TIME

All Groan Up: Searching for Self, Faith, and A Freaking Job! is the story of the GenY/Millennial generation told through the individual story of author Paul Angone. It’s a story of struggle, hope, failure, and doubts in the twilight zone of growing up and being grown, connecting with his twentysomething post-college audience with raw honesty, humor, and hope.

In a gripping novel with a plot pulled from the headlines, Todd Strasser turns his attention to gang life in the inner-city projects. DeShawn is a teenager growing up in the projects. Most of his friends only see one choice: join up to a gang. DeShawn is smart enough to want to stay in school and make something more of himself, but when his family is starving while his friends have fancy bling and new sneakers, DeShawn is forced to decide--is his integrity more important than feeding his family?

Grow old on purpose. This book invites readers to navigate a purposeful path from adulthood to elderhood with choice, curiosity, and courage. Everyone is getting old; not everyone is growing old. But the path of purposeful aging is accessible to all—and it's fundamental to health, happiness, and longevity. With a focus on growing whole through developing a sense of purpose in later life, Who Do You Want to Be When You Grow Old? celebrates the experience of aging with inspiring stories, real-world practices, and provocative questions. Framed by a long conversation between two old friends, the book reconceives aging as a liberating experience that enables us to become more authentically the person we always meant to be with each passing year. In their bestseller Repacking Your Bags, Richard J. Leider and David A. Shapiro defined the good life as “living in the place you belong, with people you love, doing the right work, on purpose.” This book builds on that definition to offer a purposeful path for living well while aging well.

When do you become an adult? What does it mean to grow up? And what are the experiences that propel us forward — or keep us stuck? These are the questions that journalist Moya Sarner sets out to answer as she begins training as a psychotherapist. But as she delves further into her own mind and others’, she soon realises that growing up is far from the linear process we imagine it to be. So begins a journey of discovery into what growing up really involves, and how we do it again and again throughout our lives. From early adulthood through to old age, When I Grow Up examines each life stage, interrogating the traditional markers of adulthood and finding new ones. Through conversations with grown-ups from all walks of life, and through her own experiences and training, Sarner probes deep into our psyches to discover how we grow and develop, and what we need to thrive throughout our lives.

A celebration of love between a bear and cub. “When I grow up, I want to be clever and funny, wild and free.” One little bear shares their hopes and dreams in this picture book treasure from the ever-popular Emma Dodd. Featuring rhyming text and delightful artwork, this much-loved title is now available as a padded board book.

In this stunning picture book, lyrical text and enchanting illustrations beautifully depict each stage of life and the journey of transformation that we experience as we grow up.

Zachary, a young bear, says that when he grows up he is going to live with his mother, but she encourages him to think about the many other things he could do, such as being a footballer, pilot, or cowboy.

Observing the amazing things that animals can do, a child imagines becoming an architect, a teacher, or an Olympic athlete one day.