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ages 4
to 7
/ grades K
to 2
Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox
Children’s love for animals and disguise come together in this award-winning introduction to the Anishinaabe tradition of totem animals.
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Parfois je suis un renard
Dans cette introduction enjouée à la tradition anichinabée des animaux totems, de jeunes enfants expliquent pourquoi ils ou elles s’identifient à différents animaux tels que les cerfs, castors ou orignaux.
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This story will appeal to many female comics fans...","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_14":"[Skim] is bringing kudos to Canadian children's book publisher Groundwood Books for its poignant and funny portrayal of a teenage girl...[Jillian Tamaki's] monochromatic ink drawings with their fluid lines add powerful cinematic storytelling to [Mariko Tamaki's] minimalist text...Jillian's ability to catch the gestures and body language of the private school girls in their plaid skirts and knee socks equals Mariko's well-attuned ear for dialogue. The combination of words and images makes Skim a fully rounded and memorable character struggling with a welter of confused feelings...we feel for her...[Jillian Tamaki] has won several awards. It seems a sure bet that Skim will garner her a few more.","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Calgary Herald","OtherText_Review_15":"A gorgeous, poetic pen line and sharp dialogue bring this angsty story of a disaffected teenage girl to life.","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_16":"Jillian Tamaki's illustrations perfectly match the rough edges and continuous movement of Skim's teenage characters and reveal humour in the agonizing minutiae of high school life...Mariko Tamaki's text blends teen-speak with eloquence and wry one-liners...blending colloquialisms and sharp observations into something profound...","OtherText_Review_16_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_17":"No medium can capture the sense of being plunged into another person's mind like comics can, and Skim is the perfect example, its words and pictures and storytelling so unified in conjuring Kim's world that it comes as a surprise to see it has two creators rather than one...The careful layering of perception, desire, and reality is handled so deftly that the effect is almost subliminal...The Tamakis have done the hardest and most rewarding thing an artist can do: they have captured the texture of real life and made it into something beautiful.","OtherText_Review_17_Src":"Irish Times","OtherText_Review_18":"The Tamaki cousins in their first graphic novel take a huge fistful of high school story trappings and distill a beautiful and funny time capsule of real feeling... 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Jillian Tamaki has an especially expressive, loose style that lends itself beautifully to this slightly morose tale.","OtherText_Review_19_Src":"Bust","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Metro","OtherText_Review_2":"...avoids all the cliches of a coming-of-age story...Original in every which way.","OtherText_Review_20":"This stunning coming-of-age novel will draw in not only GN buffs, who will appreciate the creative design and dramatic use of both illustration and narration, but also realistic-fiction fans who may not normally gravitate to the format but will find this a sympathetic standout.","OtherText_Review_20_Src":"Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books","OtherText_Review_21":"Writer Mariko Tamaki and artist Jillian Tamaki stunningly entwine their acute dialogues and visual riches in brush, soft pencil and grey tones, illuminating this adolescent romance in all its conflicted depths. [Skim is the] most sophisticated and sensitive North American graphic novel debut of the year.","OtherText_Review_21_Src":"Paul Gravett","OtherText_Review_22":"A quietly moving graphic novel...sharply witty and incisive...Long, languid lines portray Skim's turmoil and angst with pitch-perfect resonance...Recommend this to fans of Daniel Clowes's Ghost World, who have been waiting for another graphic novel of teen angst and suburban ennui.","OtherText_Review_22_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Valerie D'Orazio","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Friends of Lulu","OtherText_Review_3":"...intelligent choice...a sensitive and caring portrayal of youth...universal...a complete success...[Jillian's] storytelling is solid...[and] her art is very atmospheric...","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Gay Comics List","OtherText_Review_4":"...traverse[s] the turbulent landscape of high school with tenderness and a keen eye for the yearning of adolescent girls...From the particularities of slang to the bigger concepts like fear and isolation, Mariko and Jillian Tamaki capture the subtle details that comprise this understated part of life...a world [in] which anyone who has ever been a teenager would be able to relate to at some level...Jillian Tamaki's use of line and shadow is effective in rendering the psychology of characters and the moody spaces they find themselves in...Formally, Skim is interesting for its varied approach to panel-use. Some pages flaunt over 10 similarly sized and shaped panels while others reveal only one (often silent) borderless image. The overall effect reveals impressive artwork and many powerful scenes...Skim is a unique piece, one not to be missed. Highly Recommended. [Skim uses] high school as a fertile setting for pungent commentary on racial, cultural, and sexual issues...The narrative, mainly in diary form, feels accurate and realistic, drenched in a sense of confusion and nihilism, and the art, influenced by Craig Thompson's Blankets (2003), reflects the spare, gloomy emotional landscape in which Skim exists. This story will appeal to many female comics fans...","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"CM Magazine","OtherText_Review_5":"...[Skim is a] stunningly emotional graphic novel...an artful jumble that is as true-to-life as it is diffuse...unfussy and immediate...The delicately lined art alternately expands and contradicts the prose to achieve layers of meaning, tone and irony...With honesty and compassion, this innovative narrative communicates a life just beginning, open and full of possibility.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Horn Book, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_6":"...[Skim] manages to avoid the usual cliches...The b\/w cirt is fluid and curvy and looks like it came straight out of a sketchbook. The little details are wonderful...Highly recommended for high school graphic novel colelctions, especially those catering to girls.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Kliatt","OtherText_Review_7":"...rendered delicately...Mariko's writing is assured...Skim's self-searching entries are wrenched off or lit up by the next image...Skim comes into its own, building a teenage girl mood that's struggling observant and shyly heartfelt by turns.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Vue Weekly","OtherText_Review_8":"[Skim] is a convincing chronicle of a teenage outsider who has enough sense to want to stay outside...All in all, Skim offers a startlingly clear and painful view into adolescence for those of us who possess it only as a distant memory. It's a story that deepens with successive rereadings. But what will teenagers think? Maybe that they've found a bracingly honest story by a writer who seems to remember exactly what it was like to be 16 and in love for the first time.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_9":"Skim comes out on top...connects in every way...This graphic novel is a winner...a unique creation...Scenes are often hilarious and black-humoured as well as serious...Mariko Tamaki's prose captures an authentic adolescent voice that's dramatic, self-obsessed, funny, earnest, and sometimes glib...Skim is an unforgettable character in the tradition of Holden Caulfield-a clear social commentator on adult and adolescent behaviour whose ironic observations on social hypocrisy ring sharp and true...Illustrator Jillian Tamaki's fine draughtsmanship gives Skim a classic elegance that's missing in many other graphic novels...a powerful sense of mystical eeriness that deepens and enhances the story. 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It is also extremely thought-provoking.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Quill \u0026 Quire, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_3":"What seems a funny romp turns out to have a very sharp edge. This irreverent treatment of Columbus and his fellows may be disquieting to some, but it is long overdue.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"School Library Journal","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A retelling of the Christopher Columbus story from an Indigenous point of view. Thomas King uses a bag of literary tricks to shatter stereotypes.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeName_0":"Governor General's Literary Awards: Text","PrizeYear_0":"1992","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2007-09-01","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","ShortDescription":"A retelling of the Christopher Columbus story from an Indigenous point of view. 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A Coyote Columbus Story
A retelling of the Christopher Columbus story from an Indigenous point of view. Thomas King uses a bag of literary tricks to shatter stereotypes.
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Always, thoughts of home make school life bearable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBased on her own experiences at the Kamloops Indian Residential School, this powerful novel by Nlaka’pamux author Shirley Sterling is a moving account of one of the most blatant expressions of racism in the history of Canada. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncludes a new afterword by acclaimed Cree author Tomson Highway of the Barren Lands First Nation in northern Manitoba.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKey Text Features\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eafterword\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003edialogue\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ejournal entries\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003emaps\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.2\u003cbr\u003e\nDetermine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.1\u003cbr\u003e\nQuote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6\u003cbr\u003e\nExplain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781773068565","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Groundwood Books","KeyTextFeatures":"\u003cp\u003eafterword;dialogue;journal entries;maps\u003c\/p\u003e","MetaKeywords":"First Nations children;child abuse;bullying;Indigenous heritage and culture;cultural genocide;child as narrator;first person narration;own voice;20th century history;point of view;Canadian history;social justice;afterword;dialogue;journal entries","NumberOfPages":"144","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThis book has been in demand since it was first published thirty years ago.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe novel is based on the author’s own experience at Kamloops Indian Residential School, where — tragically — the remains of 215 children in unmarked graves were found in 2021.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis edition will be published with a new cover, a fresh interior design and a new afterword by acclaimed author, playwright and musician Tomson Highway, who is Cree and a member of the Barren Lands First Nation in northern Manitoba, just south of Nunavut.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe new cover features beadwork by Speplól Tanya Zilinski, an Anishinaabe artist. The image was inspired by the end of the story where Seepeetza thinks about asking her grandmother to bead fireweed flowers on a buckskin cover for her journal. The background (pink and cream beads) was inspired by pre-contact Nlaka’pamux basket design.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003eSterling's experiences as a residential school student and her courageous spirit shine through in this autobiographical novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"CM: Canadian Review of Materials","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy Name is Seepeetza\u003c\/em\u003e is an excellent book … as an introduction to, or indeed, to learn more about the Indian residential schools and those courageous students who attended them. \u003cem\u003eMy Name is Seepeetza\u003c\/em\u003e is as valid a book today as it was when it was first published, and it is well worth in-depth study.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Miramichi Reader","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003eSterling's writing is simple yet powerful … Even more, her words act as a catalyst for deep reflection and necessary conversation about Canada's dark past regarding the residential school system.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Cloud Lake Literary","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn honest look at life in an Indian residential school in the 1950s, and how one indomitable young spirit survived it — 30th anniversary edition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeName_0":"Sheila A. 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An honest look at life in an Indian residential school in the 1950s, and how one indomitable young spirit survived it — 30th anniversary edition.
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and up
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 10
to 14
/ grades 5
to 9
The Breadwinner
"All girls [should read] The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis." — Malala Yousafzai, New York Times
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Three Wishes
Deborah Ellis presents the stories of children of the war-torn Middle East, based on interviews with Israeli and Palestinian children.
