Jean E. Pendziwol Books in Order

A girl invites a friendly dragon home for tea, only for his sneeze to start a fire. Their adventure introduces young readers to practical fire safety through a rhyming story and reminders about escaping safely.

A girl and her dragon friend tumble into a world of fairy tales, where unfamiliar characters are not always trustworthy. Their encounters introduce children to personal safety and ways to respond when strangers make them uncomfortable.

A child helps her father sail across Lake Superior through the night, keeping watch for hazards as the boat moves through darkness. Stars and northern lights illuminate their passage until the first signs of land emerge at dawn.

A girl and her dragon spend a day at the beach, building castles and enjoying the water. Their seaside adventure introduces swimming and water safety through rhyme, with a checklist reinforcing the lessons.

In a nineteenth-century Canadian logging community, Marja wants to manage the snowy journey to school on her own. After losing her father, she must draw on the strength he believed she possessed when her skiing is put to the test.

A girl and her dragon friend set out from Camp Camelot, but a knight excludes the dragon from their game. The girl challenges the bullying, prompting a discussion about fairness, inclusion and everyone's right to participate.

While a child sleeps, a winter night unfolds outside the window. Deer, an owl and other woodland creatures move through snow and darkness in a lyrical picture book that connects bedtime with the natural world.

Two children slip away from their campsite in a red canoe at dawn. Paddling across the lake, they watch wildlife and catch fish for breakfast, sharing a quiet adventure shaped by the rhythms of a summer morning.

When her lightkeeper father's journals are recovered from a shipwreck, Elizabeth asks teenager Morgan to read them to her. Their growing friendship accompanies unsettling discoveries about Elizabeth's childhood, her twin sister and events she thought she understood.

A child searches for hope while noticing the changing natural world. Wind, shadows and winter bring uncertainty, but the return of blossoms on a cherry tree offers a way to understand renewal and resilience.

Asked to be quiet, a child discovers that silence can spark a noisy imaginary world. Dancing trees, drumming bears, dragons and ocean adventures fill the child's thoughts before the story returns to stillness.

Two children venture onto a frozen northern lake, where ice sounds, animal tracks and winter wildlife surround their skating adventure. The picture book combines a lyrical journey across the ice with attention to the landscape's natural life.

At the fur-trading post of Fort William, a young Métis boy looks forward to the annual gathering of voyageurs. When a storm strands a visitor, the boy's knowledge of the land gives him a chance to help.