Posts Tagged ‘canadian’
Merci, Canada!
See below for English description. D’un océan à l’autre, découvrez ce qui nous rend fiers de notre beau pays! Les pages aux couleurs vives et contrastées, et le texte en rimes, célèbrent les particularités et les attraits touristiques du Canada. Andrea Lynn Beck’s bestselling and award-winning picture books Bonne nuit, Canada! and Bonjour, Canada! have…
Read MoreTouch and Feel Canadian Animals
An engaging introduction to Canada’s amazing creatures using interactive touch and feels! This interactive animal book introduces babies and toddlers to Canada’s amazing creatures! Simple words and innovative touch and feel elements are paired with bright, bold photographs and illustrations, filling each page with interest and colour. Perfect for little hands and inquisitive minds, this…
Read MoreCanada Counts
As a result of the success of M is for Moose, Canadian children can rhyme off their ABCs with images of ducks, kayaks, moose, and Lake Winnipeg shimmering in their imaginations. Now children can learn their numbers with Canada Counts. On these pages, new artwork illustrates numbers from 1 to 20, as well as other…
Read MoreClaiming Anishinaabe
One woman’s personal journey of moving deeper into Indigenous knowledge and working to resist the racist and sexist legacy of the Indian Act.
Read MoreVinyl Cafe Unplugged
Dave and Morley would no doubt tell you that life is what you make it. Unfortunately for them, that means a compilation tape of mistakes, miscues, misunderstandings and muddle. That’s not to say there is anything particularly unusual about the family and friends at the Vinyl Cafe. Like the rest of us, Dave, Morley, Stephanie…
Read MoreTrue Confessions from the Ninth Concession
Author and playwright Dan Needles has long delighted readers and audiences alike with his insightful and laugh-out-loud perspective on small-town life, published in such bestselling books as Wingfield’s World (Random House, 2011), Wingfield’s Hope (Key Porter, 2005), With Axe and Flask (McFarlane, Walter and Ross, 2002) and Letters From Wingfield Farm (Key Porter, 1988). In…
Read MoreThe Appraisal
This astute, entertaining literary thriller features Helena Marsh, an art authenticator hot on the trail of an extorted painting in Budapest, skirting the law to return it to its rightful heir.
Read MoreThe Hockey Sweater HC
With every boy in a small Quebec town wearing the sweater of the Montreal Canadiens to play hockey, one child is horrified when, because of a mail order mix-up, he is forced to wear a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater.
Read MoreOriginal Highways
Expanding on his landmark Globe and Mail series in which he documented his travels down 16 of Canada’s great rivers, Roy MacGregor tells the story of our country through the stories of its original highways, and how they sustain our spirit, identity and economy–past, present and future. No country is more blessed with fresh water…
Read MoreLet Darkness Bury the Dead
It is November 1917. Initially, in the loyal Dominion of Canada, people are mostly eager to support the Motherland and fight for the Empire, but the carnage is horrendous and with enforced conscription, the enthusiasm for war is dimming. William Murdoch is a widower, a senior detective who, thanks to the new temperance laws, spends…
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