Judith Silverthorne launches Honouring the Buffalo

March 24, 2015 | sharon

Judith Silverthorne answers questions at Seven Stones School, Regina Saskatchewan

Judith Silverthorne kicked off her new book, Honoring the Buffalo, with two events in Regina.

The first was at Seven Stones Community School on February 24, 2015. She was joined by Mike Keepness, who illustrated the book, and Ray Lavalee, Medicine Man and Wisdom Keeper of the Piapot First Nations Reserve. Ray is the Cree elder who gave Judith the legend in the book, and he opened the session with an invocation to the students to remember where they came from and who they are. Mike joined Judith in answering students’ questions after Judith’s reading.

The event was covered by CJME , cbc.ca, and the Regina Leader Post, and picked up by the Vancouver Sun, the Ottawa Citizen, and Canada.com.

The second event was March 21 at the Indian Metis Christian Fellowship building. After the reading, her audience enjoyed bannock and, appropriately, bison soup.

Congratulations, Judith!

No Place for Kids

February 18, 2015January 20, 2016 | sharon

Author: Alison Lohans
Publisher: Wandering Fox Books (an imprint of Heritage House)
Ages: 9-11

978-1-772030 -17- 4 (paperback) $ 7.95
978-1-772030 -18-1 (epub) $5.99
978-1-772030 -19-8 (epdf) $5.99

Sisters Jennifer and Sarah were once part of a happy, stable family, but their idyllic life comes to an abrupt halt with the death of their mother. Unable to cope with his grief and the needs of his two young daughters, their father finds comfort in alcohol, gets fired from his job, and loses his grip on his family. As twelve-year-old Jennifer approaches maturity, she starts to develop a tough exterior, especially when she attracts unwelcome attention from one of her father’s friends.

With nothing left to lose, the two sisters decide run away to their mother’s sister in Vancouver, setting out with very little money and no clear plan. Along the way, they must overcome fear, loneliness, illness, and the conflict inherent in their sibling relationship. This emotional story deals with mature themes, but it is ultimately about the enduring bonds of family.

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An earlier version of this book was published by Roussan in 1999. It was given an “Our Choice” citation from the Canadian Children’s Book Centre, and nominated for a Saskatchewan Book Award in the Children’s Literature category.

Purchase from:

Wandering Fox Books
McNalley-Robinson
Amazon.com
Amazon.ca
Chapters-Indigo (paperback or Kobo)
iTunes (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Mac)
your local bookstore

Download Alison’s No Place for Kids – Curriculum Tie-in.

Honouring the Buffalo, by Judith Silverthorne

Honouring the Buffalo, a Plains Cree Legend - by Judith Silverthorne

February 1, 2015January 20, 2016 | sharon

Author: Judith Silverthorne
As told by: Ray Lavallee, Wisdom Keeper and Medicine Man of the Piapot First Nation
Illustrator: Mike Keepness
Publisher: Your Nickel’s Worth Publishing

48 pages
ISBN-978-1-927756-33-1

Features:

Includes Plains Cree translation (Y dialect)
Meets the curriculum outcomes for Grade 1-6 Social Studies and Language Arts; also ties in with teaching about treaties
Education guides, question and answer sheets, and student worksheets available.
For details, download the Honouring the Buffalo Information Sheet .

What’s Inside:

An estimated thirty to fifty million bison once thundered across the Great Plains and much of North America.

Honouring the Buffalo is the story of how the Buffalo gifted themselves so freely through the Creator to the Plains Cree people to help them survive. Discover how every part of the buffalo was used to provide shelter, food, clothing, tools, hunting, spiritual ceremonies and many other necessities.

For more details, worksheets and ordering information, see Judith’s website.

Outlaws and more Outlaws, from Linda Aksomitis

January 16, 2015July 25, 2015 | sharon

Badlands and Outlaws, by Linda Aksomitis

Kidnapped by Outlaws, by Linda Aksomitis

Cowboys and cattle, horse thieves and cattle rustlers, Pinkerton agents and Mounties, the badlands of Montana, North Dakota and Saskatchewan…”The Old West” series by Linda Aksomitis has it all.

In the first two books, follow the fictional adventures of novice cowboy Geritt Nagel and his brother as they try their hand at herding cattle and avoiding outlaws in the old west. The third book tells the true stories of the outlaws and the men that chased them, to fill in the colorful history that sets the scene for the first two books.

All three books are available in the Amazon Kindle Store:

Reading level: teen to adult.

10 Plants Wins Green Book Festival Award

June 20, 2014June 26, 2024 | sharon

10 Plants that Shook the World, by Gillian Richardson

Gillian Richardson’s book 10 Plants that Shook the World has won first place in the 2014 Green Book Festival in the Children’s Literature category.

The Green Book Festival honours books that “contribute to greater understanding, respect for and positive action on the changing worldwide environment”. Congratulations, Gillian!