<p>The newest installment in the celebrated illustrated series about Amazing Atlantic Canadians, featuring incredible Indigenous people.</p> <p>Delve into the uplifting stories of the people of Mi’kma’ki in this full-colour illustrated […]
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<p>A full-colour illustrated guide to Canada’s endemic species for young readers, from the award-winning author of <i>Snooze-O-Rama: The Strange Ways that Animals Sleep.</i></p> <p>Canada is home to over 308 endemic […]
<p><b>Rita Joe’s powerful poem is presented anew in this children’s picture book with illustrations from Pauline Young. A story of recovering what was lost in residential school, <i>I Lost My Talk</i> will raise conversation about language as a vehicle for truth and reconciliation. Published simultaneously with the companion book <i>I’m Finding My Talk.</i></b></p>
<p><i>I lost my talk</i><br/>
<i>The talk you took away</i><br/>
<i>When I was a little girl</i><br/>
<i>At Shubenacadie school.</i><br/>
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<p><b>Former Halifax Poet Laureate and second-generation residential school survivor Rebecca Thomas writes honestly and powerfully in this companion piece to Rita Joe’s <i>I Lost My Talk</i>. Includes vibrant illustrations from […]
<p>The Mi’kmaq lived in Canada long before the country even got its name. Before Europeans arrived, they lived in homes called wigwams and hunted and fished throughout the Maritime provinces, living off and giving back to the land. They enjoyed storytelling, drumming, and dancing within their tightknit communities.</p><p>In L’nuk: the Mi’kmaq of Atlantic Canada, First Nations educator Theresa Meuse traces the incredible lineage of today’s Mi’kmaq people, sharing the fascinating details behind their customs, traditions, and history. Discover the proper way to make Luski (Mi’kmaw bread), the technique required for intricate quillwork and canoebuilding, what happens at a powwow, and how North America earned its Aboriginal name, Turtle Island.</p><p>Includes informative sidebars, highlighted glossary terms, recommended reading, a historic timeline, index, and over 60 fullcolour historical and contemporary images.</p>
Mi’kmaq artist Alan Syliboy’s daily drum artworks paired with a different day of the week in an accessible and beautiful baby board book.
<p><b>An educational and heartfelt retelling of the story of the Mi’kmaq and their traditional lands, Mi’kma’ki, for young readers, focused on the generational traumas of the Indian Residential School System.</b></p><p><i>”The […]
Celebrate natural hair with Governor General’s Award-nominated author Shauntay Grant in this joyful board book. With accessible text and vibrant photos of toddlers sporting afros, cornrows and everything in between, <i>My Hair is Beautiful</i> brings a powerful message of self-love.
Nanass is eager to join her father and the other members of her Innu community protesting NATO low-level flying. But when her father is arrested, Nanass has little to comfort her, except her father’s ball cap and the promise of the land itself that the Innu people will one day triumph.
<p>Are Shakespeare’s lost manuscripts buried deep in the notorious Money Pit? Do booby traps conceal the Holy Grail of the Knights Templar or Blackbeard’s pirate loot? The mystery of Oak Island’s rumoured treasure has stumped explorers and researchers for over two hundred years. In this fascinating nonfiction account, librarian Joann Hamilton-Barry introduces young readers to the treasures rumoured to be hidden on Nova Scotia’s famous question mark-shaped island and the curious adventurers who sought it out. </p>
<p>With over 50 maps, photographs, and artefacts, highlighted by educational sidebars, this accessible, entertaining book takes readers from the island’s first treasure hunters to present-day adventurers, and shares tales of pirate gold, mysterious messages, and the famous Oak Island curse.</p>
<p>R is for Reparations invites readers to listen to the voices of young activists as they share their hopes, dreams and opinions about the global demand for redress, compensation and restitution in addressing the tragedy and resulting political, social, and economic damage caused to African People by the Atlantic Slave trade.</p>
When Nellie Winters was 11 years old, she was sent to attend the Nain Boarding School, a residential school 400 kilometres from her home. In this memoir, she recalls life […]
