Canadian Shield Alphabet: Letter Q
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Canadian Shield Alphabet wins Science Journalism Award
Congratulations to Myrna Guymer, whose book The Canadian Shield Alphabet won the prestigious 2008 Science In Society Journalism Awards in the Children’s Book category.
The award is presented annually by the Canadian Science Writers’ Association. Previous winners include Robert Bateman and David Suzuki.
Fiddle Dancer on YouTube
Click the arrow to hear Anne Patton read part of Fiddle Dancer on www.youtube.com.
Launch of Dancing in My Bones
Anne Patton launched Dancing in My Bones with co-author Wilfred Burton at the Back to Batoche Days in Batoche in June 2010. This picture shows Anne reading to a group of young people.
Here is Anne with her husband Waldo and her granddaughter Ada, standing in front of a display of all the recent books published by the Gabriel Dumont Institute, publisher of Dancing in My Bones and its prequel, Fiddle Dancer.
Enjoying Nana’s book
Anne Patton’s granddaughter enjoys Tyler’s First Sleepover with her dad.
L is for Land of Living Skies
Author: Linda Aksomitis
Illustrator: Lorna Bennett
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
For more about this book and others by Linda, visit her website.
Estelle and the Self-Esteem Machine
Author: Jo Bannatyne-Cugnet
Publisher: Red Deer College Press, 1993
Purchase from Amazon.ca, Amazon.com, Chapters-Indigo
Kaboom!
Author: Gillian Richardson
Publisher:Annick Press, 2009
Find out about everything that explodes in this new release from Annick Press.
“…deserves to be read for general interest as well as educative purposes; it is truly a blast.”…Resource Links, December 2009.
“…an engrossing attention-getter, effectively tapping the sensationalism of all types of blasts.”…School Library Journal, 12/1/2009.
“Packed with information… Fun for browsing and useful for the odd report.”…Booklist 12/1/2009, Vol. 106 Issue 7, p57, 1p
A 2010 “Best Book For Children and Teens” in the nonfiction category from the Canadian Children’s Book Centre
Read a review in CM Magazine.
Download Kaboom Curriculum Links .
Purchase from:
- Amazon (Canada)
- Amazon (USA)
- Chapters-Indigo
- a bookstore near you.
Saskatchewan Children's Writers' Round Robin 