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Our Canadian flag
By Maxine Trottier. 2004
Maya Angelou (Little people, big dreams ;)
By Lisbeth Kaiser, Leire Salaberria. 2016
Maya Angelou spent much of her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas. After a traumatic event at age eight, she stopped speaking…
for five years. However, Maya rediscovered her voice through wonderful books, and went on to become one of the world's most beloved writers and speakers. Grades K-3 and older readers. 2016. Uniform title: Pequeña & grande.Viola Desmond won't be budged!
By Jody Warner, Richard Rudnicki. 2010
Tells the story of Viola Desmond, an African Canadian woman who, in 1946, challenged a Nova Scotia movie theatre's segregation…
policy by refusing to move from her seat to an upstairs section designated for use by blacks. Grades K-3. 2010.The man who made parks: the story of parkbuilder Frederick Law Olmsted
By Frieda Wishinsky, Song Nan Zhang. 2009
When the great cities of North America were being developed, there was little thought to creating "green spaces." Frederick Law…
Olmsted combined his childhood love for nature with the structured beauty of the great parks of London and Paris to turn a neglected, swampy area into one of the most acclaimed parks in North America: Central Park in New York City. Grades K-3 and older readers. 2009.Little Canada (The little series)
By Renné Benoit, Matt Napier. 2012
A board book highlighting well-known Canadian symbols and traditions, including famous buildings and wildlife. Rhyming riddles frame the question, while…
brightly painted clues help the youngest book lover figure out the answer. Grades P-2 and older readers. 2012.A Likkle Miss Lou: How Jamaican Poet Louise Bennett Coverley Found Her Voice
By Nadia L. Hohn. 2019
A Kirkus Reviews most anticipated picture book of fall 2019, new from Nadia L. Hohn, named one of CBC’s “6…
Black Canadian writers to watch” Louise Bennett Coverley, better known as Miss Lou, was an iconic poet and entertainer known for popularizing the use of patois in music and poetry internationally—helping to pave the way for artists like Harry Belafonte and Bob Marley to use patois in their work. This picture book tells the story of Miss Lou’s early years, when she was a young girl growing up in Jamaica. As a child, Miss Lou loved words—particularly the Jamaican English, or patois, that she heard all around her. As a young writer, Miss Lou felt caught between writing “lines of words like tight cornrows,” as her teachers instructed, and words that beat more naturally “in time with her heart.” The uplifting and inspiring story of a girl finding her own voice, this is also a vibrant, colorful, and immersive look at an important figure in our cultural history. With rich and warm illustrations bringing the story to life, A Likkle Miss Lou is a modern ode to language, girl power, diversity, and the arts. End matter includes a glossary of Jamaican patois terms, a note about the author’s “own voice” perspective as a Jamaican-Canadian writer, and a brief biography of Miss Lou and her connection to Canada, where she lived for 20 years.Guess how much i love canada
By Katrine Crow. 2020
Two young explorers journey on a trip across Canada as they share their favorite cities, parks, and landmarks from coast…
to coast. Facts about Canada's culture, geography, and history put a fun and informative spin on this nonfiction book that every young traveler is sure to enjoyThrough the wardrobe: how C. S. Lewis created Narnia
By Lina Maslo. 2020
As a child, Clive Staples Lewis imagined many things...heroic animals and knights in armor and a faraway land called Boxen.…
He even thought of a new name for himself-at four years old, he decided he was more of a Jack. As he grew up, though, Jack found that the real world was not as just as the one in his imagination. No magic could heal the sick or stop a war, and a bully's words could pierce as sharply as a sword. So Jack withdrew into books and eventually became a well-known author for adults.But he never forgot the epic tales of his boyhood, and one day a young girl's question about an old family wardrobe inspired him to write a children's story about a world hidden beyond its fur coats...a world of fauns and queens and a lion named Aslan. A world of battles between good and evil, where people learned courage and love and forgiveness. A magical realm called Narnia. And the books he would write about this kingdom would change his life and that of children the world overShe made a monster: how Mary Shelley created Frankenstein
By Felicita Sala, Lynn Fulton. 2018
Recounts the night that Mary Shelley became inspired to create her monster, Frankenstein, and how her chilling story, originally part…
of a friendly contest, endured for generations. For grades 2-4. 2018Just like Beverly: A Biography of Beverly Cleary (Growing to Greatness)
By David Hohn, Vicki Conrad. 2019
Biography of Beverly Cleary, from her roots in Oregon to her years as a librarian and, eventually, children's book writer.…
Author of the beloved Ramona series, Cleary wrote the stories she longed for as a child. For grades K-3. 2019Finding Narnia: the story of C.S. Lewis and his brother
By Jessica Lanan, Caroline McAlister. 2019
Introduces the beloved creator of The Complete Chronicles of Narnia (DB 50083), as a young boy named Jack, who grew…
up dreaming of other worlds with his brother, Warnie. For grades K-3. 2019Enormous SMALLNESS: a story of E. E. Cummings
By Kris Di Giacomo, Matthew Burgess. 2015
Presents the life and work of the twentieth-century American poet Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962). Focuses on his fascination with words…
from a young age and highlights his poetry's inspirational and innovative qualities. For grades 2-4. 2015Winnie: the true story of the bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh
By Sally M. Walker, Jonathan D. Voss. 2015
Recounts the story of Harry Colebourn, a soldier in the Canadian Army Veterinary Corps, who adopted a baby bear at…
a train station. Winnie, the bear, gained popularity with Colebourn in the regiment, and later became a beloved resident of the London Zoo. For grades K-3 and older readers. 2015The Pilot and the Little Prince: the life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
By Peter Sís, Peter Sis. 2014
A biography of French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Antoine was one of the first pilots to deliver mail…
by plane, and he wrote of the adventures that later influenced his book The Little Prince (DB 44071). For grades 3-6 and older readers. 2014Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude
By Jonah Winter, Calef Brown. 2009
And Gertrude and Alice are Gertrude and Alice. And you are welcome to join them for tea. But beware, for…
there you will find a bear in a chair, just barely scary. And here is a beard with a man attached to it. And then, of course, some words might appear, uninvited , but delighted in spite of their lightbulbs. But, but, but, but - that doesn't make any sense! Yes! In a story inspired by the oh-so-modern groundbreaking writing of Gertrude herself, not a lot makes sense. Even so, the oh-so-popular author Jonah Winter, and the ever-so-popular illustrator Calef Brown, and the most popular poodle of all time, Basket, invite you to enter the whimsical world of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. For grades 2-4. 2019The librarian of Basra: a true story from Iraq
By Jeanette Winter. 2005
Alia Muhammed Baker is the librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for…
those who love books. Until now. Now Alia fears that the library and the 30,000 books within it will be destroyed forever. In a war-stricken country where civilians, especially women, this true story about a librarian's struggle to save her community's priceless collection of books reminds us all how throughout the world, the love of literature and the respect for knowledge know no boundaries. For preschool-grade 2Will Rogers: an American legend
By Mike Wimmer, Frank Keating, Francis Anthony Keating. 2002
Dewey: there's a cat in the library!
By Vicki Myron, Bret Witter, Steve James. 2009
Dewey the cat, who finds a new home at the Spencer Library when librarian Vicky Myron finds him in the…
return box, learns that young visitors like to chase him, pull his tail, and give him tight hugs, but he soon realizes that, despite the demands, helping people is what he does best. For grades K-3Mississippi sissy
By Kevin Sessums. 2007
Former Vanity Fair editor describes his Jackson, Mississippi, youth in the 1950s and 1960s. Recounts his parents' early deaths, the…
sexual abuse he suffered, his introduction to the arts and gay communities, and his association with journalist Frank Hains. Strong language, some explicit descriptions of sex, and some violence. 2007Possible side effects: True Stories
By Augusten Burroughs, Augusten X. Burroughs. 2006
A collection of humorous anecdotes from the author of Running with Scissors (RC 54817). Describes his addiction to nicotine gum,…
his nosebleed on a red-eye trans-Atlantic flight, and his impulse to buy a puppy with his partner, Dennis, as a companion for their beloved French bulldog. Strong language. Bestseller. 2006