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The Canadian Mountain Assessment is a groundbreaking publication on mountain systems in Canada, notable for its inclusion of a wide range of academic and Indigenous voices. This resource includes images and diagrams alongside textual explanations … [Click to Read More]
By Graham McDowell (Author), Madison Stevens (Author), Shawn Marshall (Author)
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Flight Risk is a play that explores the impacts of war and aging, based on interviews with veterans from Alberta’s seniors’ homes and their care staff. In addition to the play, with its humour and … [Click to Read More]
By Meg Braem (Author)
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Evelina is an ideal novel for educators interested in exploring societal norms and the challenges faced by women, particularly concerning their reputation and social standing in historical fiction. The epistolary format provides insight to the … [Click to Read More]
By Frances Burney (Author)
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Full of funny and colourful drawings, ABC Monstrosity reinvents the traditional alphabet book format and creates monstrosities by combining previously introduced familiar objects. The results are fun and engaging characters like “Cabannapow” (Apple + Banana … [Click to Read More]
By Shea Proulx (Author), Shea Proulx (Editor)
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In Who Has Seen the Wind, Mitchell tells the fictional story of Brian, a young boy growing up in Saskatchewan in the 1930s. As readers follow Brian’s coming-of-age story, they are introduced to many secondary … [Click to Read More]
By W.O. Mitchell (Author)
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In Five Stalks of Grain, Nadia and Taras face hardship, loss, and grief as they try to survive the Holodomor in Soviet Ukraine. This graphic novel shows the moral struggles faced even by children, in … [Click to Read More]
By Adrian Lysenko (Author), Ivanka Theodosia Galadza (Illustrator)
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Canadian Animals for Kids is a perfect book for animal-obsessed early readers, with 32 pages of vibrant images. Each page matches the illustration of an animal with a lyrically phrased fast so that reading aloud … [Click to Read More]
By Max Elliott (Author), Max Elliott (Illustrator)
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A is for Alberta is an Albertan twist on the traditional alphabet book. Each page features a colourful acrylic painting of popular local places and events that will delight early readers, and additional facts are … [Click to Read More]
By Mindy Johnstone (Author), Mindy Johnstone (Illustrator)
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An often undiscussed piece of Canadian history involves the actions of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), both on Canadian soil and abroad. This book focuses on a handful of CSIS operations and provides a … [Click to Read More]
By Peter Boer (Author)
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Set in the throes of the French Revolution, League of the Star follows Marquis Marcel de la Croix, a young nobleman, and several French emigrants in England as an adventure of love, drama, and war … [Click to Read More]
By N.R. Cruse (Author)
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Written by the founder of Mother Earth Essentials (an Indigenous-owned skincare and tea company), Mother Earth Plants for Health & Beauty is a collection of recipes and stories about plants and their various uses. Many … [Click to Read More]
By Carrie Armstrong (Author)
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Alberta Blue is more than just a storytime reader that pays tribute to Alberta’s natural environment—it is a multimedia experience with watercolour paintings by Jesse Horne and the country song version by The Travelling Mabels, … [Click to Read More]
By Pat Hatherly (Author), Jesse Horne (Illustrator)
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Mary Schäffer: Adventures in the Canadian Rockies tells the story of Schäffer’s experiences in the Rocky Mountain region, where she is remembered to this day as a key regional explorer. Each page features short paragraphs … [Click to Read More]
By Michale Lang (Author), Kitty McLeod (Illustrator)
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Canadian Rockies ABC is a simple book used to teach young learners the alphabet, wonderfully illustrated with various activities, places, and animals of the Rocky Mountains. Each letter has a dedicated page where it is … [Click to Read More]
By Max Elliott (Author), Max Elliott (Illustrator)
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- English Language Arts
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- Environmental and Outdoor Education
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Geneva and her parents hike up a mountain to see the view from the top, but Geneva encounters small wonders of nature as they climb. Told through rhyming text with brightly coloured illustrations, this book … [Click to Read More]
By Meghan J. Ward (Author), Tay Odynski (Illustrator)