For Susan's son Junior, who has the good taste and good timing to wonder about that neighbour to the north.It's not Canada without:
Sam's cousin, John Steele, RCMP action figure
The RCMP Musical Ride by Maxwell Newhouse
The Maple Syrup Book by Marilyn Linton
At Grandpa's Sugar Bush by Margaret Carney, illustrated Janet Wilson
Your own 5-foot tall, glow in the dark 3D CN Tower puzzle
Canadian Geographic Kids' puzzle map of Canada
Canadian poetry and art for children:
Eenie Meenie Manitoba: Playful Poems and Rollicking Rhymes and See Saw Saskatchewan by poet Robert Heidbreder
Alligator Pie by Dennis Lee
In Flanders Fields: The Story of the Poem by Linda Granfield; picture book version of John McCrae's famous World War I poem
Til All the Stars Have Fallen: Canadian Poems for Children, edited by David Booth
Voices on the Wind: Poems for all Seasons, edited by David Booth
Images of Nature: Canadian Poets and the Group of Seven, edited by David Booth; an amazing book of Canadian poetry and Canadian art, from the Group of Seven, selected for children
A First Book of Canadian Art by Richard Rhodes
Canadian classic picture books, and deservedly so:
The Hockey Sweater by Roch Carrier; a Canadian classic
A Happy New Year's Day by Roch Carrier; his autobiographical picture book about the festivities in rural Quebec
A Northern Nativity: Christmas Dreams of a Prairie Boy by William Kurelek; also by Kurelek,
A Prairie Boy's Winter and A Prairie Boy's Summer
O Canada and Children of the Yukon by Ted Harrison
Robert Service's poems, with illustrations by Harrison: The Cremation of Sam McGee and The Shooting of Dan McGrew
Some of our other favourite Canadian picture books:
Cinderella Penguin: The Little Glass Flipper by Janet Perlman; also by Perlman and very, very funny, The Emperor Penguin's New Clothes and The Penguin and the Pea
Something from Nothing by Phoebe Gilman
Where Does a Tiger-Heron Spend the Night? by Margaret Carney
Emma and the Silk Train by Julie Lawson
Come to the Fair by Janet Lunn
Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt by Janet Wilson
The Prairie Fire by Marilynn Reynolds
The Night the Stars Flew by Jo Ellen Bogart
The White Stone in the Castle Wall by Sheldon Oberman, about Toronto's own castle, Casa Loma
Canadian ABCs and 123s:
M Is For Maple: A Canadian Alphabet by Michael Ulmer
Eh? to Zed: A Canada Abecedarium by Kevin Major
ABC of Canada by Kim Bellefontaine
Z is for Zamboni: A Hockey Alphabet by Matthew Napier; also by Napier, Hat Tricks Count: A Hockey Number Book
A Northern Alphabet by Ted Harrison
A Prairie Alphabet by Jo Bannatyne-Cugnet with illustrations by Yvette Moore
Canadian history and geography:
Here is the Canadian history post I wrote last fall, with books suitable for preschool to third grade, or grade three as we say up here; unfortunately, the page with Nicola Manning's amazing Canadian history book list no longer seems to be available; I'll try to add more titles here as soon as possible.
A Pioneer Sampler: The Daily Life of a Pioneer Family in 1840 by Barbara Greenwood
A Pioneer Thanksgiving: A Story of Harvest Celebrations in 1841 by Barbara Greenwood
A Pioneer Christmas: Celebrating in the Backwoods in 1841 by Barbara Greenwood
Gold Rush Fever: A Story of the Klondike, 1898 by Barbara Greenwood
The Kids Book of Canada by Barbara Greenwood
The Kids Book of Canadian History by Carlotta Hacker
Kids Book of Canadian Exploration by Ann-Maureen Owens
The Kids Book of Canada's Railway: And How the CPR Was Built by Deborah Hodge
The Kids Book of Great Canadians by Elizabeth McLeod
The Kids Book of Canadian Firsts by Valerie Wyatt
Forts of Canada by Ann-Maureen Owens
The Story of Canada by Janet Lunn; beautifully illustrated narrative history book
Odds and ends:
The Canadian Children's Book Centre
Margaret Atwood writes for kids
Mordecai Richler writes for kids
Proud Canadian Kids website, created by a Kindergarten teacher in Stratford, Ontario; with a special link for K-Grade 2 sites
No comments:
Post a Comment