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Jarman's short stories employ dazzling linguistic verve and staggering metaphoric powers in every sentence.
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A journey in search of the pleasure and powers of silence
By author: Sara Maitland
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A serious, important and deeply engaging book, describing the risks and resources of silence.
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A beatifully illustrated Christmas story where a young native boy's dream of a candle lights his parents' way home on a harsh winter night.
Ages 2 to 5
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A retelling of the Christopher Columbus story from a Native point of view turns this tale on its ear! Thomas King uses a bag of literary tricks to shatter the stereotypes surrounding Columbus's voyages.
Ages 5 to 8
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Trickster Coyote experiences the pitfalls of excessive consumption in this comically irreverent solstice tale.
Ages 5 to 8
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This visionary collection by critically acclaimed poet, Matt Rader, unravels our layered identities to explore the lyrical fabric of humanity.
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Alexander MacKenzie's dog protected the explorer and the Native guides that helped him along his way. This book brings a new perspective to the story of MacKenzie's explorations.
Ages 6 to 9
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Simon discovers that catching a salmon is more difficult than it looks in this touching story with evocative watercolor illustrations.
Ages 4 to 7
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An exhilarating and blackly funny exploration of migration and borders from an Albanian who grew up in Hoxha's madhouse, longing to cross to Greece, only to find another seam of absurdities and disappointments on his eventual arrival.
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In his #1 bestselling 2004 CBC Massey Lectures, Ronald Wright considers the most urgent questions of the twenty-first century, and of our survival on this earth.
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