Shin-chi's Canoe

Shin-chi's Canoe PDF Author: Nicola Campbell
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN: 1773065572
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Book Description
Winner of the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award and finalist for the Governor General's Award: Children's Illustration This moving sequel to the award-winning Shi-shi-etko tells the story of two children's experience at residential school. Shi-shi-etko is about to return for her second year, but this time her six-year-old brother, Shin-chi, is going, too. As they begin their journey in the back of a cattle truck, Shi-shi-etko tells her brother all the things he must remember: the trees, the mountains, the rivers and the salmon. Shin-chi knows he won't see his family again until the sockeye salmon return in the summertime. When they arrive at school, Shi-shi-etko gives him a tiny cedar canoe, a gift from their father. The children's time is filled with going to mass, school for half the day, and work the other half. The girls cook, clean and sew, while the boys work in the fields, in the woodshop and at the forge. Shin-chi is forever hungry and lonely, but, finally, the salmon swim up the river and the children return home for a joyful family reunion.

Shin-chi's Canoe

Shin-chi's Canoe PDF Author: Nicola Campbell
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN: 1773065572
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Book Description
Winner of the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award and finalist for the Governor General's Award: Children's Illustration This moving sequel to the award-winning Shi-shi-etko tells the story of two children's experience at residential school. Shi-shi-etko is about to return for her second year, but this time her six-year-old brother, Shin-chi, is going, too. As they begin their journey in the back of a cattle truck, Shi-shi-etko tells her brother all the things he must remember: the trees, the mountains, the rivers and the salmon. Shin-chi knows he won't see his family again until the sockeye salmon return in the summertime. When they arrive at school, Shi-shi-etko gives him a tiny cedar canoe, a gift from their father. The children's time is filled with going to mass, school for half the day, and work the other half. The girls cook, clean and sew, while the boys work in the fields, in the woodshop and at the forge. Shin-chi is forever hungry and lonely, but, finally, the salmon swim up the river and the children return home for a joyful family reunion.

Shi-shi-etko

Shi-shi-etko PDF Author: Nicola I. Campbell
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN: 1554982332
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19

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Book Description
Winner of the Anskohk Aboriginal Children's Book of the Year Award. Finalist for the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award, the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and the Ruth Schwartz Award In just four days young Shi-shi-etko will have to leave her family and all that she knows to attend residential school. She spends her last days at home treasuring the beauty of her world -- the dancing sunlight, the tall grass, each shiny rock, the tadpoles in the creek, her grandfather's paddle song. Her mother, father and grandmother, each in turn, share valuable teachings that they want her to remember. And so Shi-shi-etko carefully gathers her memories for safekeeping. Richly hued illustrations complement this gently moving and poetic account of a child who finds solace all around her, even though she is on the verge of great loss -- a loss that native people have endured for generations because of the residential schools system.

Stand Like a Cedar

Stand Like a Cedar PDF Author: Nicola I. Campbell
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
ISBN: 1553799224
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Book Description
When you go for a walk in nature, who do you see? What do you hear? Award-winning storyteller Nicola I. Campbell shows what it means to “stand like a cedar” on this beautiful journey of discovery through the wilderness. Learn the names of animals in the Nłeʔkepmxcín or Halq’emeylem languages as well as the teachings they have for us. Experience a celebration of sustainability and connection to the land through lyrical storytelling and Carrielynn Victor’s breathtaking art in this children’s illustrated book. Discover new sights and sounds with every read. A glossary and pronunciation guide can be found at the back of the book.

Pippo the Fool

Pippo the Fool PDF Author: Tracey E Fern
Publisher: Charlesbridge
ISBN: 1607341301
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 47

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Book Description
In fifteenth-century Florence, Italy, a contest is held to design a magnificent dome for the town's cathedral, but when Pippo the Fool claims he will win the contest, everyone laughs at him. Based on a true story.

Queenie Quail Can't Keep Up

Queenie Quail Can't Keep Up PDF Author: Jane Whittingham
Publisher: Pajama Press Inc.
ISBN: 1772780677
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19

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Book Description
No matter how hard she tries, little Queenie Quail can’t keep up with her Mama and her Papa and her nine bobbing, tapping siblings. “Hurry, hurry, hurry!” they exclaim as Queenie lags behind. But how can Queenie hurry when there are so many interesting things to look at? One day when she stops to admire a fascinating feather, a flash of orange catches Queenie’s eye. Spotting danger among the greenery, Queenie springs into action, hurry, hurry, hurrying to warn her family just in the nick of time. From Jane Whittingham, the celebrated author of Wild One and A Good Day for Ducks, Queenie Quail Can’t Keep Up is a story about the value of slowing down to take notice of the world around us. Whittingham’s bouncy prose is filled with lovely wordplay and musicality, pairing perfectly with debut illustrator Emma Pedersen’s whimsical illustrations in this tale that young readers will identify with and ask for again and again.

No Room for Baby!

No Room for Baby! PDF Author: €mile Jadoul
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1771388412
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Book Description
This endearing and cozy picture book poignantly captures the worries and evolving feelings that arise when a new baby enters the family of a young child. The sweet story is told with sensitivity and gentle humor from the child's perspective. Full color.

A Day with Yayah

A Day with Yayah PDF Author: Nicola I. Campbell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781926890098
Category : Grandmothers
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
The entire family goes out for a romp in the woods picking mushrooms and herbs. Grandmother passes down her knowledge of plant life.

What Ollie Saw

What Ollie Saw PDF Author: Joukje Akveld
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1646140559
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 57

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Book Description
Ollie doesn't see things the same way everybody else does (and he certainly doesn't see things the same way his older sister does). Instead of cars in traffic, Ollie sees a circus parade. Instead of cows grazing in a field, Ollie sees deadly bison with sharp horns and hooves. And at school, instead of letters on the board, Ollie sees birds with pointy beaks, and fish with flapping tails in the big blue sea. Ollie knows he doesn't need glasses, because he likes the world better the way he sees it. But will his parents and bossy sister see things his way?

This Is Your Brain on Stereotypes

This Is Your Brain on Stereotypes PDF Author: Tanya Lloyd Kyi
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1525306111
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Book Description
An introduction to the science behind stereotypes. From the time we’re babies, our brains sort and label the world around us — a necessary skill for survival. But there’s a downside: we also do it to groups of people in ways that can be harmful. With loads of examples, here’s a scientific overview of stereotyping, covering the history of identifying stereotypes, secret biases in our brains, how stereotypes affect our sense of self, and current research into the ways that science can help us overcome them. Adolescents are all too familiar with stereotypes. Here’s why our brains create stereotypes, and how science can help us do it less.

Bigger Than a Dream

Bigger Than a Dream PDF Author: Jef Aerts
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1646140591
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Book Description
People fear death. We don't know how to talk about it, especially to children, and we're afraid to bring it up for fear of making people sadder. Yet children, especially, have questions, and this incredibly gentle and surprisingly light story is full of both comfort and vividly imagined "answers." The first one gives the book its title: A boy hears the voice of his sister calling him one day, a sister he's never met because she died before he was born. The sister in the faded photograph on the wall. So that night he asks his mother what death is like and she tells him, "It's like dreaming, only bigger." That's lovely, but he still has questions, which it turns out his sister can answer! On a dreamy, carefree adventure they ride their bikes together, (not always on the ground), visiting places that were special to her when she was alive. And she talks to him in the older sister, teasing, straightforward, loving way that is exactly what he needs. (It turns out that death is not the only thing that can be Bigger Than a Dream.) Much, much more than bibliotherapy, this is a work of art that speaks with honesty and tenderness about one of life's great mysteries.