Janet Wilson

Lynn Manuel

Drawn directly from the journals of L.M. Montgomery herself, "Lucy Maud and the Cavendish Cat tells the story of the writing of "Anne of Green Gables through the eyes of the author's constant companion, her beloved gray cat. Montgomery was an avid journal-writer. She recorded how Daffy sat on her lap as she struggled with the first draft of the book that would become a worldwide classic, and how her cat accompanied her to Ontario and to her new life when she married. Filled with gentle insight, "Lucy Maud and the Cavendish Cat is a delight for cat lovers everywhere, and of course, for the millions of readers who love "Anne of Green Gables.

Lucy Maud and the Cavendish Cat

Based on the true story of Shannen Koostachin and the people of Attawapiskat, a Cree community just below the Arctic Circle, who have been fighting for a new school since 1979, when a fuel spill contaminated their original school building.

Shannen and the Dream for a School

Profiles ten children around the world, from the United States to Yemen, who have taken on the role of social activist.

How Kids are Changing the World

Our Rights

Tells the story of Severn Cullis-Suzuki, a young Canadian girl who, after visiting the Amazon and seeing the horrors of deforestation, decided to start an environmental organization and travel to the Earth Summit in Brazil to spread her message.

Severn and the Day She Silenced the World

Dorothy Joan Harris

In this beautiful treasury edition, you'll meet Ellen, who in 1939 lives with her family in Vancouver. After her father loses his job during the Depression, her family is forced to move into her grandfather's cramped bungalow. In "Hobo Jungle," Ellen meets and an out-of-work man named Will and their growing friendship opens Ellen's eyes to a world more difficult--and more dangerous--than her own. In "The Wishing Time," news of the war in Europe dampens everyone's spirits. But when Japan becomes a hostile aggressor, Ellen discovers that war affects everyone, including children, even thousands of miles away. In "The Waiting Time," the community is gripped in fear of the polio epidemic. When Ellen becomes ill and must recuperate at home, she has time to think about what she can do to help the men overseas and how she can cheer up a sick friend. And in the final book of the series, "A Time for Courage," Japanese Canadians are now considered "enemies," and Ellen is worried about what will happen to her Japanese Canadian friend Amy and her family. Welcome to Our Canadian Girl In this wonderful series you will get to know Ellen and many other strong, smart, and courageous girls. They come from different places and times in Canadian history, and each of them meets some ordinary--and extraordinary--challenges in her day-to-day life. www.ourcanadiangirl.ca

The Waiting Time

Kathy Kacer

1947: Now that Margit and her family have settled into their new life in Toronto's Kensington Market, they have--at Margit's urging--agreed to take in a Polish orphan. Lilly speaks no English and jealously guards her only possession: a photo of her mother and father. Unable to communicate with Lilly, or to comfort her when she wakes in the night with bad dreams, Margit and her family are feeling the strain. Even Margit's cherished friendship with Alice is at the breaking point. Will Margit ever be able to break through to this troubled young girl? Will Alice ever speak to her again?

A Friend in Need

Deborah Ellis

Greg Banning

1903: Suddenly left an orphan by a rockslide, Keeley decides to travel to Winnipeg to find Cora Hind, the reporter who befriended her, rather than live with her grandparents in Lethbridge.When Keeley arrives at Cora's apartment, a young Nellie McClung lets her in and gives her a warm place to sleep. Upon discovering that there's no work for young female reporters at the Winnipeg Free Press, Keeley contacts her grandparents and receives their blessing to head back to her best friend and her hometown of Frank--where she knows she belongs.

Keeley's Journey

Cora Taylor

Banning, Greg

It's 1870, and Angelique and her family are once again looking forward to the annual buffalo hunt. But this year, and much to her disappointment, Angelique must stay behind to care for her expectant mother. Angelique can't imagine that helping her mother will be nearly as exciting as joining the hunt. Soon, however, she discovers that her responsibilties are just as great-and possibly more dangerous Welcome back to OUR CANADIAN GIRL and the continuing adventures of Angelique and many other smart, spirited, and courageous girls. They come from different places and times in Canadian history, and each of them meets some ordinary-and extraordinary-challenges in her day-to-day life.

Autumn Alone

Anne Laurel Carter

Nova Scotia, 1762: While Elizabeth's mother is busy preparing for the arrival of a baby, plans to start up a school in their home must be put on hold. But when Elizabeth learns that her friend Mathilde can't read, she's determined to do something about it. In between chores at the Porter house, she begins to teach Mathilde and young Josh Porter. When Elizabeth's friend Sarah hears about the secret school, she decides to pitch in with the teaching, much to Mathilde's dismay. Will Elizabeth ever manage to bring her two friends together? And will her students be prepared for the Christmas Day surprise she has in store for their families'. Welcome back to OUR CANADIAN GIRL and the continuing adventures of Elizabeth and many other smart, spirited, and courageous girls. They come from different places and times in Canadian history, and each of them meets some ordinary-and extraordinary-challenges in her day-to-day life.

A Hornbook Christmas

Chandani Lokuge

Engaging with Asian Australian writing, this book focuses on an influential area of cultural production defined by its ethnic diversity and stylistic innovativeness. In addressing the demanding new transnational and transcultural critical frameworks of such syncretic writing, the contributors collectively examine how the varied and diverse body of Asian Australian literary work intervenes into contemporary representational politics and culture. The book questions, for instance, the ideology of Australian multiculturalism; the core/periphery hierarchy; the perpetuation of Orientalist attitudes and stereotypes; and white Australian claims to belong as seen in its myths of cultural authenticity and authority. Ranging in critical analyses from the historic first Chinese-Australian novel to contemporary award winning Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi and Filipino Australian novels, the book provides an inside view of the ways in which Asian Australian literary work is reshaping Australian mainstream literature, politics and culture, and in the wider context, the world literary scene. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.

Mediating Literary Borders: Asian Australian Writing

Chandani Lokugé

Interviews with Contemporary South Asian Diaspora Writers

Creative Lives

Renowned paper crafter Janet Wilson shares her passion for South American parchment craft in this inspiring and practical guide. Beginning with a guide to tracing, embossing, colouring, cutting out and mounting a simple project, Janet goes on to demonstrate the beautiful parchment styles of Brazil and Argentina. There are nine step-by-step demonstrations including greetings cards, a gift bag, a scrapbook page, a tea light frill and a convent style book cover.A helpful techniques section shows how to trace, emboss, colour, cut out and mount a simple project, and there are sections on decorative perforating, Richelieu work and Brazilian style lace. Janet then shows how to make nine beautiful projects, including beautiful greetings cards, a gift bag, a scrapbook page, a tea light frill and a convent style book cover.

South American Parchment Craft

Patricia Quinlan

When his uncle, Michael, dies of AIDS, Joel's dreams and thoughts of Michael keep his memory alive.

Tiger Flowers

Susan Reid

Gerri Kimber

Katherine Mansfield's arrival in London in 1908 marked the start of her professional career as a writer and this study marks a revival of her reputation as one of the foremost practitioners of the short story. The international line-up of contributors attests to Mansfield's global appeal. By discussing her fiction in relation to her life, the contributors to this critical work present reinterpretations and readings. Enhanced by new transcriptions of manuscripts and access to her diaries and letters, these readings combine biographical approaches with critical-theoretical ones and focus not only on philosophy and fiction, but class and gender, biography/autobiography. The historical and aesthetic studies of Mansfield's work all take place within a framework of modernist literature, criticism and theory, thereby expanding our understanding of what it means to be a Modernist while allocating Mansfield a firm place in any current study of Modernism.

Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism

One Peace celebrates the "Power of One," and specifically the accomplishments of children from around the globe who have worked to promote world peace. Janet Wilson challenges today's children to strive to make a difference in this beautifully illustrated, fact-filled and fascinating volume of portraits of many "heroes for today." Canadian Craig Kielburger, who started Free the Children to help victims of child labor at the age of twelve, has been nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize. Farlis Calle, forced to identify the body of a young friend -- a victim of her country's civil war -- started the Columbia Children's Movement for Peace. At age ten, Kimmie Weeks, a refugee from the Liberian civil war, came within a whisper of being buried in a mass grave. Almost miraculously he survived and vowed to make a difference in the lives of other children. At thirteen he established Voices of the Future, Liberia's first child rights advocacy group. Other portraits feature the accomplishments of children from Sarajevo, Japan, the United Kingdom, Cambodia, Afghanistan and the United States. These moving testaments to the courage and initiative of youth will inspire readers young and old.

True Stories of Young Activists

One Peace

In this book literary figures, family, friends, and colleagues pay tribute to Dan Davin and his contribution to literature through his own work and in fostering writers and writing.

Reminiscences of Dan Davin

Intimate Stranger

Cristina Sandru

Sarah Lawson Welsh

Rerouting the Postcolonial re-orientates and re-invigorates the field of Postcolonial Studies in line with recent trends in critical theory, reconnecting the ethical and political with the aesthetic aspect of postcolonial culture. Bringing together a group of leading and emerging intellectuals, this volume charts and challenges the diversity of postcolonial studies, including sections on: new directions and growth areas from performance and autobiography to diaspora and transnationalism new subject matters such as sexuality and queer theory, ecocriticism and discussions of areas of Europe as postcolonial spaces new theoretical directions such as globalization, fundamentalism, terror and theories of ‘affect’. Each section incorporates a clear, concise introduction, making this volume both an accessible overview of the field whilst also an invigorating collection of scholarship for the new millennium.

New Directions for the New Millennium

Rerouting the Postcolonial

Linda Granfield

The story of John McCrae's World War I poem interweaves the poet's words with information about the war, details of daily life in the trenches, accounts of McCrae's experience in his field hospital, and the circumstances that contributed to the poem's creation. Simultaneous.

The Story of the Poem by John McCrae

In Flanders Fields

Chris Ringrose

New Soundings in Postcolonial Writing is a collection of critical essays on postcolonial writing from the Caribbean, England, New Zealand and the Pacific, and features new work by 17 creative writers, all in honour of the postcolonial critic, Bruce King.

Critical and Creative Contours

New Soundings in Postcolonial Writing

Severn Suzuki's speech at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio caught the attention of the world. As the daughter of environmentalist David Suzuki, Severn's concern for the environment was fueled by a trip to the Amazon rainforest at age nine. Back home in Vancouver, she and her friends started ECO, the Environmental Children's Organization, combining their efforts to raise enough money to travel to Rio. They couldn't have imagined the effect they would have on the adults gathered there. More than twenty years later, Severn's speech continues to receive thousands of hits on YouTube. Severn's story is about the power that children have to create change when they work together, and how their voices can stand out above the politics and cynicism of adults.

Janet Wilson

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