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Maud Lewis is one of Canada’s most celebrated folk artists.
Despite hardships, she found joy which she expressed through her art. She painted canvases of animals, children, and her surroundings. Her art spilled over into everything from dust pans to the walls of her house. Maud Lewis died in 1970, but her wonderful, life-affirming art lives on and is treasured by people who understand and appreciate folk art all over the world.
- ISBN: 9781770492622
- Author: Jo Ellen Bogart
- 32 pages
- Ages: 5-7, 6-9
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The Delta is My Home is narrated by eleven-year-old Tom McLeod, a young Gwich-in and Inuvialuktun boy from Aklavik, a small town located in the Mackenzie Delta. It tells the story from the First Nations perspective.
Tom tells why he loves the land, and what special things his family does to live off the land. Beautiful photographs and engaging text make this a valuable picture book for all ages.
- ISBN: 9781897252321
- Author: Tom McLeod and Mindy Willett
- 25 pages
- Ages: 5-7, 8-12
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Eight-year-old Margaret Pokiak has set her sights on learning to read, even though it means leaving her village in the high Arctic. Faced with unceasing pressure, her father finally agrees to let her make the five-day journey to attend school, but he warns Margaret of the terrors of residential schools.
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The remarkable true story of the bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh
Harry Colebourn’s real-life great-granddaughter Lindsay Mattick recounts their incredible journey, from a northern Canadian town to a convoy across the ocean to an army base in England . . . and finally to the London Zoo, where Winnie made a new friend: a boy named Christopher Robin.
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ISBN: 9781443429184
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Author: Lindsay Mattick
- 56 pages
- Ages: 5-7, 6-9, 8-12
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Based on the true story of Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, and complemented by evocative illustrations, Not My Girl makes the original, award-winning memoir, A Stranger at Home, accessible to younger children. It is also a sequel to the picture book When I Was Eight.
- ISBN: 9781554516247
- Author: Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
- 36 pages
- Ages: 6-9
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Watlkina slipped from his bed. In the Big House masked figures danced by firelight to the beat of the drum. And there, he saw a figure he knew.
This is a true childhood tale by aboriginal elder Alfred Scow of a delightful childhood memory and aboriginal tradition carried down through the years. Award-winning author Andrea Spalding collaborates to tell the story, to tell the secret of the dance.
- ISBN: 9781554691296
- Author: Andrea Spalding
- 32 pages
- Ages: 5-7
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This story is a powerful memoir of an Inuit girl searching for her true self when she returns from residential school.
Highlighted by archival photos and striking artwork, this first-person account of a young girl’s struggle to find her place will inspire young readers to ask what it means to belong.
A True Story. Sequel to Fatty Legs
Not My Girl is the same story in picture book form for younger children.
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“Even if I don’t finish, we need others to continue. It’s got to keep going.” ―Terry Fox
Created in co-operation with the Terry Fox Foundation and Terry Fox’s family, this is the first authorized biography ever written specifically for young readers. Dozens of colour photographs — many from the family’s own collection — and simple text by Maxine Trottier combine to tell the story of Terry’s life and legacy.
- ISBN: 9781443102506
- Author: Maxine Trottier
- 40 pages
- Ages 8-12
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In this book L.D. Cross recounts the harrowing experiences of many including Harriet Tubman, a slave who escaped and later helped many others to do so and Alexander Ross a white doctor and ornithologist from London, Ontario who travelled many times to southern plantations to ‘study birds’ and to surreptitiously hand out information regarding the secret routes leading to freedom in the north.
- ISBN: 9781552775813
- Author: L.D. Cross
- Pages: 144
- Ages: 12+, Adult
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Olemaun is eight and knows a lot of things. But she does not know how to read. Ignoring her father’s warnings, she travels far from her Arctic home to the outsiders’ school to learn. The nuns at the school call her Margaret. They cut off her long hair and force her to do menial chores, but she remains undaunted. Her tenacity draws the attention of a black-cloaked nun who tries to break her spirit at every turn. But the young girl is more determined than ever to learn how to read.
Based on the true story of Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, and complemented by stunning illustrations, When I Was Eight makes the bestselling Fatty Legs accessible to younger readers. Now they, too, can meet this remarkable girl who reminds us what power we hold when we can read.
