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19 Jul 2021 Leave a comment
in Books, books 5+ Tags: activism, environment, First Nations, grandparents, indigenous peoples, nature, pollution, river, strong girls, water
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 2021
text by Carole Lindstrom, illustrations by Michaela Goade
Age: 5+ (for full engagement)
Interests: environmentalism, nature, water, activism, pollution, indigenous people, first nations, strong girls
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13 Dec 2016 Leave a comment
in Books, books 10+, Uncategorized Tags: American history, desert, First Nations, history, nature, Navajo, religion, spirituality
by Laura Adams Armer
Age: 10+
Interests: American history, First Nations, Navajo spiritualism, life in the desert, religion
24 Sep 2014 2 Comments
in Books, books 10+ Tags: adventure, American history, biography, First Nations, history, nonfiction, pioneer life, violence, war
written and illustrated by James Daugherty
Age: 10+
Interests: American history, history, pioneer life, biography, war, violence, adventure, First Nations
22 Oct 2013 3 Comments
in Books, books 11+ Tags: Alaska, animals, arctic, First Nations, Inuit, nature, strong girls, wilderness survival, wolves
by Jean Craighead George
Age: 11+
Interests: wilderness survival, nature, arctic, animals, wolves, Inuit, First Nations, strong girls More
06 Feb 2013 Leave a comment
in Books, books 6+, books 8+ Tags: adventure, American history, country life, family, farming, First Nations, history, pioneer life, racial tension, siblings, strong girls
NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER – 1936
by Carol Ryrie Brink
MacMillan: 1935
275 pages, 24 chapters
Age: 6+ (read to); 8+ (independent reading)
Interests: history, American history, farm life, pioneers, siblings, growing up
Also by this author: sequel Magical Melons (aka Caddie Woodlawn’s Family)
Next: picture books – They Were Strong and Good, Abraham Lincoln, Ox-Cart Man; chapter books – Sarah Plain and Tall, Little House on the Prairie series, Anne of Green Gables
04 Apr 2012 Leave a comment
in Books, books 3+ Tags: animals, birds, First Nations, nature, poetry, single parent
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 1984
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Errol Le Cain, illustrations
Faber and Faber, 1984
30 pp.
Age: 3
Interests: poetry, nature, First Nations, birds, animals
Also by this illustrator: The Cabbage Princess, Thorn Rose, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, The Snow Queen, The Enchanter’s Daughter, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, and many others
07 Feb 2012 2 Comments
in Books, books 4+ Tags: First Nations, folktales, horses, nature
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1979
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
by Paul Goble
Simon & Schuster, 1978
32 pp.
Age: 4+
Interests: horses, First Nations legends, folktales
Also by this author: Mystic Horse, The Great Race of the Birds and Animals, Star Boy, Death of the Iron Horse, Buffalo Woman, The Gift of the Sacred Dog, Song of Creation, and many others
18 Nov 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 5+, Canadian books Tags: animals, birds, environment, First Nations, nature
BLUE SPRUCE nominee 2012
by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Vancouver: Greystone Books, 2010
20 pp.
Age: 5 +
Interests: nature, animals and birds, environmentalism, First Nations art, Canadian books
21 Jul 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 5+ Tags: First Nations, folktales, frogs, Princess, strong girls, Tlingit
The Frog Princess: A Tlingit Legend from Alaska
retold by Eric A. Kimmel
illustrated by Rosanne Litzinger
New York: Holiday House, 2006
28 pp
Age: 5+
Interests: princess, folklore, frogs, Tlingit, First Nations
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