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Geraldo Valério looks at the nature of true friendship and love in a stunning wordless picture book.
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Short Stories for Little Monsters
The internationally acclaimed author of the Stella and Sam series has created a collection of short, funny illustrated stories.
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A Serious Thought
A boy ponders his place in the universe in this thoughtful story about the things that keep us up at night.
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Work
An alphabetical tour through the coolest jobs you can imagine—and some you might never have heard of!
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Chin Chiang and the Dragon's Dance
Chin Chiang has dreamed of dancing the dragon's dance but now the day has arrived, and he is so scared that he wants to melt into his shoes.
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As gay Chippewa 16-year-old Zack puts it, 'They tried really hard to kill us all off, and we’re still here!'—a welcome and necessary reminder to all.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_2":"Ellis’s transcriptions of these interviews allow the authentic voices of the young people to come through...Important and provocative, this is a good choice for libraries wanting to add a contemporary, youthful perspective on issues affecting indigenous people in North America.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"School Library Journal","OtherText_Review_3":"[O]ften simultaneously heartbreaking and hopeful...Unflinching and informative, this volume will appeal to a broad range of readers.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Author Deborah Ellis travels across the continent, interviewing more than forty Native American kids and letting them tell their own stories.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_2":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_3":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_4":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_5":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_6":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_7":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeCode_2":"03","PrizeCode_3":"01","PrizeCode_4":"04","PrizeCode_5":"04","PrizeCode_6":"03","PrizeCode_7":"04","PrizeName_0":"Aesop Prize","PrizeName_1":"Notable Books for a Global Society","PrizeName_2":"Cooperative Children's Book Center Choices","PrizeName_3":"Social Justice Literature Award","PrizeName_4":"Red Maple Award for Non-Fiction","PrizeName_5":"Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction","PrizeName_6":"Notable Books for a Global Society","PrizeName_7":"Red Maple Award","PrizeYear_0":"2013","PrizeYear_1":"2014","PrizeYear_2":"2014","PrizeYear_3":"2014","PrizeYear_4":"2015","PrizeYear_5":"2014","PrizeYear_6":"2014","PrizeYear_7":"2015","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2013-09-23","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","ShortDescription":"Author Deborah Ellis travels across the continent, interviewing more than forty Native American kids and letting them tell their own stories.","Subtitle":"Voices of Indigenous Kids","teachersguide_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781554981212\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=teachersguide\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
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Looks Like Daylight
Author Deborah Ellis travels across the continent, interviewing more than forty Native American kids and letting them tell their own stories.
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ages 5
to 9
/ grades K
to 4
Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged!
A picture-book biography of Viola Desmond, Canada’s Rosa Parks, who was arrested for refusing to sit in the segregated section of a movie theater.
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ages 4
to 7
/ grades P
to 2
Shin-chi's Canoe
Shi-shi-etko is about to return to residential school, but this time she is not alone — her six-year-old brother, Shin-chi, is going, too.
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Let the Elephants Run
A national bestseller, Let the Elephants Run is the essential guidebook for anyone looking to reignite their creativity.
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He is the youngest-ever winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama. He’s been called a “zeitgeist savant” by the \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e, “the future of Canadian theatre” by \u003cem\u003eNow Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and “the hottest name in Canadian theatre” by the \u003cem\u003eMontreal Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINTERNATIONAL AUDIENCES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eHis virtual reality performance \u003cem\u003eDraw Me Close\u003c\/em\u003e, a co-production between the National Theatre (U.K.) and the National Film Board of Canada, was a collaboration with acclaimed author Teva Harrison and premiered in May 2017 at the Tribeca Film Festival. Tannahill’s production of Sheila Heti's \u003cem\u003eAll Our Happy Days Are Stupid\u003c\/em\u003e, directed with collaborator Erin Brubacher, premiered at Videofag in 2013 and went on to sold-out productions at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre and New York City’s The Kitchen in 2015. Liminal is being made into a feature length art film by the NFB and the National Theatre in the UK.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGROUNDBREAKING LGBTQ ARTIST:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eFrom 2012-2016, in collaboration with William Ellis, Tannahill ran the alternative art space Videofag out of their home in Toronto’s Kensington Market neighbourhood. 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They’re usually charlatans, the ultra-religious, or insane (not that these three types are mutually exclusive; in fact they rarely are). And I find any description of these revelations some combination of sinister and comical, like John Smith receiving golden plates from the angel Moroni in a secret language only he can translate. Even the words “revelation” and “epiphany” are mired in Christian connotations. The first conjures images of John on the island of Patmos having visions of the Whore of Babylon and the Beast, while the second is the realization by the wise men that Christ is the Son of God, rendered throughout art history as the Adoration of the Magi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI suppose the synonym that feels the least corrupted by spiritual chicanery is “eureka,” and yet this word feels burdened by the mythos of masculine scientific discovery, from Archimedes fateful bath to Newton’s gravity-weighted apple (why do I always imagine it hitting his head?) Darwin said he could remember the exact moment during a carriage ride in which he was struck by his “hunch” about natural selection. Nikola Tesla, while recuperating from a recent breakdown brought on by his obsession to solve the mystery of alternating current, was on a walk with a friend in Budapest’s Varosliget Park when he was pierced by his moment of insight. Tesla was looking into the setting sun whilst reciting a passage from Goethe’s Faust (naturally) when a vision of a functioning alternating current electric induction motor appeared to him with such clarity that he grabbed a stick and drew a diagram of it then and there in the dirt. One can almost hear the angelic choral accompaniment. Perhaps because of these bearded white men and their long lineage of eurekas the word has acquired a certain sense of finitude: they each had a question and in an instant it was answered. As if, through years of research and inquiry, their minds were already filled with the necessary information and all that was required was that final synaptic connection to illuminate the network of association.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA word that seems part of this revelatory cohort is “vision,” which again has religious undertones, but also the unfortunate limitations of its sensory association. A vision suggests something that is seen, either literally with one’s eyes in a new way, or seen within the mind’s eye. As the ever-favoured child of the senses, we seem inclined to give seeing undo credit as the conduit of discovery. Though as Proust might agree, throughout my life I’ve probably had more ‘visions’ induced by smell than any other sense. For me, a new awareness is rarely an apparition to be seen or viewed; it does not appear to me like Tesla’s motor. It is something that is felt. An awareness that dawns and slowly spreads its light through my body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat I seek is a word that does not suggest a long-sought for answer but rather a deluge of questions. A word for kind of illumination that recalls a caver holding a torch up in an underground chamber and apprehending a few dashes of rock wall at a time, uncertain of how far the cavern extends into darkness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCounter-intuitively, I found something approaching this word in the Bible. The first word in the Book of Revelations — and from which it derives its name — is apokalypsis, which in its original Korine Greek means \"unveiling\" or “revelation.” I find the notion of ‘unveiling’ — of an encounter, smell, sight, sensation that unveils an infinite system of questions and discoveries (which in turn spur more questions) — to be the most vivid evocation of this I can find. I might be even inclined to use the original Greek apokalypsis, as it seems to contain the possibility of discovery in the moment of destruction. Much like the theatre; an art revealed in the moment of its disappearance. And like life itself, theatre can not be rewound or reread; it exists in the temporal present between being and un-being, in what Plato calls the “something inserted between motion and rest (. . .) in no time at all.” An art conjured in the instant of its erasure. And I like the almost preposterous gravity of the world apokalypsis; how it’s cataclysmic and eschatological associations seem to mimic the way in which one world seems to end and another begins in a moment of newfound awareness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut in this instance, for what I’m about to articulate, “unveiling” is the apt word. It conjures for me the image of a man in white gloves pulling a cloth of a painting; the removal of a covering that concealed that which was there all along — something which has been rendered ever more extraordinary by the very fact of its concealment. Rather than by divine conjuring, “unveiling” suggests a moment of discovery arising from matter-of-fact and mortal circumstances. A new way of experiencing something already in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this way, the world is constantly unveiling itself; a stand of trees seen from a fresh angle, the laugher of a dog, a nameless colour, new patterns of movement, of light, of behaviour, patterns in fabric, in birds, in traffic, in music . . . In this way “revelation” is not something a bearded white man once an epoch apprehends but rather a state of becoming that imbues all things at all times. Of course to be in a state of perpetual unveiling is exhausting and disorienting; it’s essentially the way we moved through the world as babies, when everything was revealed and nothing was legible. Gradually, to make sense of the chaos, we fixed things in place, we fixed meaning, we fixed potential, we fixed objects and people and places as knowable and predictable entities and attempted to reduce the instances of unveiling because those upset the order by introducing new variables into the mix. Unveiling, by nature, un-fixes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is what happened at 11:04 a.m. on Saturday, January 21, 2017 when I walked into your bedroom and saw your body in bed. In a moment something — perhaps everything — became unveiled. And I became unfixed. It was a moment that lasted less than a second. The interval between a hand feeling water and the pain of it’s scalding heat; between sense and sensation.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Tannahill is a good writer, a natural storyteller with a strong sense of narrative rhythm as well as the ability to launch into almost mystical flights of poetic vision.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_1":"Authors such as Ben Lerner, Rachel Cusk, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, among others, are showing their exhaustion with plot, opting to be candid, probing, philosophical, and discursive at a micro-level on the page. Toronto playwright Jordan Tannahill’s lushly intelligent debut novel, Liminal, is an exciting addition to this school . . . Liminal captures something illuminating and undefinable about the present moment . . . A real jaw-dropping intellectual feat . . . A rich and unusual story.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"From award-winning playwright and filmmaker Jordan Tannahill comes a masterful novel in the tradition of Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeName_0":"A 49th Shelf Book of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2018","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-01-23","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"From award-winning playwright and filmmaker Jordan Tannahill comes a masterful novel in the tradition of Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Liminal
From award-winning playwright and filmmaker Jordan Tannahill comes a masterful novel in the tradition of Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be.
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ages 4
to 7
/ grades K
to 2
Grandmother’s Visit
Grace says goodbye to Grandmother in this touching book about love and loss.
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ages 8
to 12
/ grades 3
to 7
Book Uncle and Me
Book Uncle and Me is an award-winning middle-grade novel about the power of grassroots activism and how kids can make a difference.
