Magic Pebble Books
153 Geddes Street N0B 1S0 Elora, ON, Canada

We love the quirky style of Canadian author Robert Munsch, so today’s feature for #ireadcanadian week is this ‘Classic Munsch ABC’ book to help children learn the alphabet. This would make a wonderful gift for any little one just starting to read, and includes wonderful illustrations and a sturdy cover. We’re open daily from 10-5 and continue to offer free local delivery!

‘Magdalena’ is a captivating new book from award-winning Canadian author Wade Davis who has also served as National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence for more than a decade. His new book brings vividly to life the story of the great Río Magdalena, illuminating Colombia's complex past, present, and future. #ireadcanadian We’re open daily 10-5, and continue to offer free local delivery!

#ireadcanadian week continues with this wonderful book! The marriage of words and image is a trend in contemporary art: visual artists are painting words, phrases, and sentences onto their canvases. Taking this trend and applying it to a children's book, Charles Pachter, one of Canada's pre-eminent visual artists, has reviewed forty years of work and matched a blend of familiar and new images with words that explore the idea of Canada. From 'Alberta' and 'autumn', through 'be...aver' and 'butter tart', to a portrait of Margaret Atwood ('poet'), this beautiful book will delight children, parents, and grandparents alike. It contains reproductions of iconic paintings, such as the Queen patting a moose, and paintings of historical Canadian figures Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Susanna Moodie, and Wilfrid Laurier, along with short biographies for parents. Also included is the Canadian National Exhibition prize-winning recipe for butter tarts and a complete list of all illustrations in the book. With his talent joyfully evident on every page, M is for Moose celebrates Charles Pachter's continuing fascination with the marriage of words and images, his love of Canada, and his depth of understanding of our history. We are now open every day from 10-5! Max of 4 persons in the shop at one time.

Another wonderful Canadian author for #ireadcanadian week! Big sky, big sky, what is bigger than the sky? In this clever concept book for young readers, award-winning author Jo Ellen Bogart explores the size of animate and inanimate objects and their place in the universe. She introduces children to the concept of we that humans are a big part of the world, but a small part of existence.... In the vastness of the universe, with galaxies swirling through space, the book begins with simple words printed on the darkness. Moving closer to our world, we see the solar system, our sun at the center. Closer still, we see the huge ball of fire, which is the sun, and the third planet out from it our blue Earth. From Earth looming huge on the page, young readers view smaller and smaller objects, from mountain to tree to man to child to kitten to mouse to flea to microscopic beings, amazing in their complexity. Accompanied by artist Gillian Newland’s lavish watercolor paintings, Big and Small, Room for All places the immensity and wonder of space in perspective so young readers comprehend they are part of creation, but a small part of all that exists. We are now open daily 10-5, maximum 4 persons in the shop at one time. We continue to offer free local delivery!

We hope you are having a fun Family Day! We continue to celebrate #ireadcanadian with this captivating story of crisis and survival by Emily St. John Mandel. ‘The Glass Hotel’ takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the near-homeless, underground electronica clubs, the business of international shipping, service in luxury hotels, and life in a federal prison. Rife with unexpected beauty, The Glass Hotel is a captivating portrait of greed and gu...ilt, love and delusion, ghosts and unintended consequences, and the infinite ways we search for meaning in our lives. Our store will be open for shopping again starting tomorrow! We still offer curbside pickup or free local delivery.

Do you know any Harry Potter fans? Tag a friend who might be interested!We’re fully stocked for holiday gift giving!

We have lots of favourites in the shop for the little ones. We’re open every day from 10 am till 5 pm, 7 days a week and you always have the option of shopping online 24/7 through our website at www.magicpebble.ca ! If you would like suggestions, just send us a message or email us and we’re happy to help!

This would be a wonderful gift for anyone on your list! Brandon Stanton’s Humans his most moving and compelling book to date shows us the world. After five years of traveling the globe, the creator of Humans of New York brings people from all parts of the world into a conversation with readers. He ignores borders, chronicles lives and shows us the faces of the world as he saw them. His travels took him from London, Paris and Rome to Iraq, Dubai, Ukraine, Pakistan, Jordan, Uganda, Vietnam, Israel and every other place in between. His interviews go deeper than before. His chronicling of peoples’ lives shows the experience of a writer who has traveled widely and thought deeply about the state of our world.

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A fun re-imagining of the roots of our nation's favourite game with vibrant, photo-realistic artwork from veteran nature writer and artist Jeffrey Domm. When two ravens excitedly chisel away at a piece of ice on a frozen pond, a curious wolf pack approaches to investigate the ruckus. They step onto the slippery ice and scare off the birds. But the chunk of ice flies between the wolves, who soon start passing the "puck" back and forth. The game is on! Playfully deking and diving with the ravens cheering them on, the wolves slip and slide in a game of wild pond hockey. Jeffrey C. Domm is a Nova Scotia author and illustrator. He has written more than 30 children's books, including Eagle of the Sea, Atlantic Puffin and The Hatchling's Journey.

When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her--freedom, prison or death. With The Testaments, the wait is over. Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.... In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades. "Dear Readers: Everything you've ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book. Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we've been living in." --Margaret Atwood

In ‘Breasts and Eggs’, Mieko Kawakami explores the inner conflicts of an adolescent girl who refuses to communicate with her mother except through writing. **** Nests & Eggs cards sold separately!

It’s puzzle time! We have the most amazing and beautiful puzzles in the shop right now, and with cooler rainy days ahead it’s a great way to pass some time. These also make a nice gift for puzzle fans!

In This Little Light, bestselling author Lori Lansens weaves together the pressing issues of our timewomen’s rights, income disparity, religion and politics, immigrationand uses them through the authentic voice of a 16-year-old navigating a frightening reality. The result is an intense, urgent, and enthralling read about an all-too-believable near futureand the world we already live in.

With the cooler weather are you thinking ‘I actually feel like I want to cook’! If so, come and check out our growing display of cookbooks that will get you in the mood to create some yummy dishes!

Get yourself some cool Gorge Cinema swag and we’ll throw in a free bag of ! Showing this weekend: Raiders of the Lost Ark. You can book your tickets at www.gorgecinema.ca!!

New Release available October 6th, call or email us to reserve one! Drake has to stop an evil wizard in this action-packed, New York Times bestselling series. An evil wizard named Astrid is plotting to become the most powerful wizard in the world. She is collecting ingredients for a dangerous spell, and it is up to the Dragon Masters to stop her from casting it. Drake and Mina travel to the Fortress of the Stone Dragon to warn the Stone Dragon''s Dragon Master, Caspar, that Astrid is on her way there. But will the evil wizard''s dark magic overpower the Dragon Masters?

Tomorrow's author event is postponed until a later date. We'll keep you posted.

‘Seven’ by Farzana Doctor is a rich, soulfully written novel about inheritance and resistance that tests the balance between modern and traditional customs.

New York Times bestselling creators James and Kimberly Dean show us all the wonderful things about autumn. A great book to share with the family at Thanksgiving or anytime! Pete the Cat isn't sure about the changing of the seasons from summer to autumn. But when he discovers corn mazes, hay rides, and apple picking, Pete realizes there's so much to enjoy and be thankful for about autumn!

LITTLE PEOPLE- BIG DREAMS - These incredible books written by Isabel Sanchez Vegara tell the true stories of remarkable people from Georgia O’Keefe (one of the greatest artists of the 20th Century) to Nobel Prize winning Scientist Marie Curie. Not only are these hard back, children books utterly stunning, like individual pieces of artwork, they are incredibly inspirational. Their true stories of outstanding people empower children to believe in themselves and their dreams.

This new arrival is one of Robin’s favourites!!! For fans of Taro Gomi’s Everyone Poops and Matthew Van Fleet’s Tails, this cheeky, whimsical picture book for ages 3-7 inspires self-love and body positivity, plus a whole lot of laughter and fun! All bottoms are wonderful! Don’t you agree? Each animal in this adorable book has a different reason for loving their behindfrom cute and round to fashionable and striped! Talented illustrator Maki Saito makes kids laugh out loud with playful illustrations of the backsides of hippos, zebras, pandas, mandrills, and more of our favorite animals. Her traditional Japanese art techniques add a sophisticated, beautiful feel to a book about animal butts! Kids will love readling along to this wonderfully silly and unusually empowering book.

The Man with No Face by Peter May is a slow burning, detailed thriller which sees investigative journalist Neil Bannerman head to Brussels from Edinburgh to follow a political investigation. A perfect book to curl up with!

G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown may seem a pleasantly doddering Roman Catholic priest, but appearances deceive. With keen observation and an unerring sense of man’s frailtiesgained during his years listening to confessionsFather Brown succeeds in bringing even the most elusive criminals to justice. This definitive collection of fifteen stories, selected by the American Chesterton Society, includes such classics as The Blue Cross, The Secret Garden, and The Paradise of Thieves. As P. D. James writes in her Introduction, We read the Father Brown stories for a variety pleasures, including their ingenuity, their wit and intelligence, and for the brilliance of the writing. But they provide more. Chesterton was concerned with the greatest of all problems, the vagaries of the human heart.

We are thrilled to present our 3rd Author Reading & Craft this Saturday, October 24th featuring Sandra Wilson, Educator and Founder of the Kindness Kangaroo Project. This series of Sandra’s books are geared towards children ages 4-7 and discuss facing fears in a positive way through her wonderful animal characters. In addition to reading The Courageous Caterpillar, Sandra will guide your children with a craft featuring the transformation of a caterpillar into a bu...tterfly. Sandra will also be dressed as the Kindness Kangaroo! Pre-book your family/friend pod for a private 30 minute session between 1-3 pm by emailing us at [email protected]. Our reading room will be sanitized between sessions. See more

In the shocking new thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Run Away, a man whose past is shrouded in mystery must find a missing teenage girl before her disappearance brings about disastrous consequences for her community . . . and the world. Available in our shop or online, free local delivery!

We have novels by famed Canadian author Steven Erikson, if you love fantasy fiction these are for you! A brutal, harrowing novel of war, intrigue and dark, uncontrollable magic, this is epic fantasy at its most imaginative, storytelling at its most thrilling. - Goodreads

The ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ books are brilliant for 8-to-10-year-olds to read on their own or to read aloud to kids aged from about 6 up. They're set in Scotland and were written by English author, Cressida Cowell. How to Train Your Dragon is about the adventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, the ten-year-old, red-haired son of a Viking chief. Hiccup, like all young people of the Holligan tribe, must capture a dragon as a rite of passage. If they can't capture and train a dragon, they will be exiled from the tribe. Both boys and girls seem to love this book and it’s sequels so if you need a gift or want to encourage a child to read, stop by the shop to see our selection or order from us online 24/7!

Author reading & craft today with @kellynhough_maker ! Today’s the day!!! Stop by @magicpebbleelora for their Customer Appreciation Day/1 Year Celebration, and if you’ve booked a reading and craft session with me I am so excited to meet you and your little ones! Grab a coffee from @theeloracafe and check out the monster sculptures around town...good books, good coffee, and monsters...need I say more??? Happy Saturday friends!... . . #elora #shoplocal #monstermonthelora See more

If you visit our shop tomorrow during our CUSTOMER APPRECIATION DAY you will get 10% off purchases PLUS be entered to win a $25 gift certificate PLUS you can also enter to win a set of Daisy and Scout, the Gumboot Kids!

Rainy days are always better when curling up with a Louise Penny book. We have a great selection including her latest ‘All the Devils are Here’. Louise Penny sends her Canadian detective to Paris in ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE and not a moment too soon. Over the course of this endearing series of village mysteries, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec has examined so many corpses and caught so many murderers that the Canadian hamlet of Three Pines must... be running out of bodies, both warm and cold. Gamache and his wife, Reine-Marie, are in Paris to attend the birth of their fourth grandchild, which gives Gamache the chance to visit his godfather, Stephen Horowitz. Their reunion takes place in the garden of the Musée Rodin, where the haunting statue of The Burghers of Calais, headed for the gallows to save their town, moves them to reflect on the notion of self-sacrifice. - New York Times See more

We are celebrating our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY this Saturday, October 17th! To thank all of you for helping make our dreams come true we are having a CUSTOMER APPRECIATION SALE all day long! Enjoy 10% off purchases* (online and in person), and enter for your chance to win one of our $25 gift certificates! Families/friend pods, sign up for a private reading & craft with our special guest author Kellyn Hough who will be reading from her book ‘The Hedgehog and the Fog’ and ...doing a craft with your kids in our private back room - please book your spot by calling or emailing us at [email protected]. Instagrammers and Facebook friends, to have your name entered for a free $25 gift certificate, just comment on this post and tag a friend! You will both be entered to win, and all winners will be notified by DM or messenger. Please join us this Saturday either in person or online through www.magicpebble.ca! *some exceptions apply See more

#1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles continues the electrifying story he began in his smashing New York Times bestseller Natchez Burning with this highly anticipated second volume in an epic trilogy of blood and race, family and justice.

The title of Kiley Reid's debut novel, ‘Such a Fun Age’, works on so many levels....and, what's better, the title's plurality of meaning is echoed all over the place within the novel, where both plot and dialogue are layered with history, prejudice, expectations, and assumptions. The title's "fun age" might refer to one of the two main characters, Emira Tucker, a 25-year-old black woman who keenly feels that working part-time as a babysitter and part-time as a typist doesn't ...count as true adulting. It might refer to her charge, Briar, a white three-year-old whose imagination and speech patterns are so charmingly true to a particular kind of kid that she's both instantly recognizable and entirely her own person. More broadly, the "fun age" might be our own, prior to the 2016 [US] election an age that was considered by some to be magically post-racist and post-sexist because it was impolite to be these things in public; an age of performative white feminism; an age of social media and virality and armchair activism and online virtue-signaling that ironically requires certain people often, those already more vulnerable to exist in specific politically correct ways while letting others usually, those with power and privilege off the hook. Don't let all these layers put you off the wonder of Such a Fun Age is that it is also a page-turner with beautifully drawn characters and a riveting plot. - NPR.org

Our large mystery/noir section includes Peter Robinson, the veteran Canadian-British crime writer, who has now produced over 25 novels featuring Det. Supt. Alan Banks. Along with his small Yorkshire police cohort and vast collection of favourite music, this series has become an instant presence on best-seller lists.

We have 4 spots left for this wonderful event this Saturday Sept 19th! Call or email us to reserve, all spots are safely socially distanced, and available times are 11:30, 12:00, 12:30 or 1:00 pm. We are excited to announce a special event taking place at Magic Pebble on September 19th! We are inviting young families to take part in a seasonal story time and craft with children’s book author Carolyn J Morris.... The event will start at 11 o’clock and will be held in 30 minute intervals in small groups. Carolyn will read ‘Paisley's Pumpkin’ and introduce a pumpkin craft. Each child can paint both sides and add a jack o'lantern to the one side. Painting supplies will be provided. Between each group, we will disinfect the paintbrush handles. ***** Registration for this event is required, so we ask that you email us to reserve your spot at [email protected]. In your email, please indicate how many adults and children are in your family group. We hope you and your little ones can join us for this fun event!

The classics are a great way to introduce young ones to the wonderful world of reading. If we don’t have it, we can order it!

Escape with a great mystery novel! We have many by Mike Martin including The Walker on the Cape - A man's body is found in a small fishing community on the East Coast. First, everyone thinks it's a heart attack or stroke but then it's discovered that he was poisoned. Who would do this and why? Finding that out falls to Winston Windflower and his side-kick Eddie Tizzard. Along the way, they discover there are many more secrets hidden in this small community and powerful people who want to keep it that way.

We have an excellent selection of graphic novels including the very popular series Diary of a Wimpy Kid, perfect for younger kids and teens!

Cooler days and evenings are perfect for snuggling up with a mystery book! We have a wonderful selection of Kate Atkinson novels including her latest Big Sky. The melancholy private detective is back for a tale of sordid crimes on the Yorkshire coast, with a sprinkle of postmodernism. - The Guardian

The Night Portrait: A Novel of World War II and da Vinci's Italy by Laura Morelli An exciting, dual-timeline historical novel about the creation of one of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous paintings, Portrait of a Lady with an Ermine, and the woman who fought to save it from Nazi destruction during World War II.

At an early age, Ruth Reichl discovered that "food could be a way of making sense of the world. . . . If you watched people as they ate, you could find out who they were." Her deliciously crafted memoir, Tender at the Bone, is the story of a life determined, enhanced, and defined in equal measure by a passion for food, unforgettable people, and the love of tales well told. Beginning with Reichl's mother, the notorious food-poisoner known as the Queen of Mold, Reichl introduce...s us to the fascinating characters who shaped her world and her tastes, from the gourmand Monsieur du Croix, who served Reichl her first soufflé , to those at her politically correct table in Berkeley who championed the organic food revolution in the 1970s. Spiced with Reichl's infectious humor and sprinkled with her favorite recipes, Tender at the Bone is a witty and compelling chronicle of a culinary sensualist's coming-of-age. - Goodreads See more

From the phenomenal number-one bestseller David Walliams comes another collection of more hilariously horrible children! Illustrated in glorious and gruesome colour by artist genius, Tony Ross, these stories will appall and delight young readers. Featuring horrendously hilarious stories about the absolute worst children ever, from ten-year old Hank and his endless pranks on his poor, long-suffering family, to Tandy and her titanic tantrums - this brand new collection is the perfect companion to World's Worst Children books 1 and 2 and an ideal gift for the worst children in your life!