iLit Truth Perceived: Perspectives Through Canadian Nonfiction

Reference

Stinson, Kathy

Onstad, Katrina

Goldberg, Susan

Rochon, Lisa

Gill, Rupinder

Nenshi, Naheed

Thomas, Anne

McMullan, Erin

Thiyagarajah, Nayani

Swinn, Nathan

Rahman, Nilufer

Bickis, Ian

Peerla, David

Chambers, Bruce

Ravina, Vincenzo

Dougherty, Ilona

Ellis, Gord

Romanow, James

Cuervo, Ivy

Navrady, Aaron

Madwar, Samia

Haves, Dan

Keilholz, Doerthe

Words, Language & Grammar

McGraw-Hill/Ryerson

The story takes place in Montreal, during the smallpox epidemic of 1885. Marie-Claire lives in a humble home with her working-class family - her parents, sister Emelie and baby brother Philippe. Through Marie-Claire's life we glimpse the difficulties faced by a family besieged by privation and disease, and we witness one girl's struggle to persevere through the illness of her cousin Lucille and the work-related injury of her father -- even to endure the death of a loved one. All the while, Marie-Claire maintains a remarkable optimism for the future. Our Canadian Girl is a groundbreaking new series of historical fiction that brings Canada's past to thrilling life by telling the stories of Canadian girls from different eras, regions and backgrounds. The heroines are compelling and the stories, written by some of Canada's best children's writers, are powerful and exciting. Once and for all, Our Canadian Girl proves that history doesn't have to be boring!

Our Canadian Girl Marie Claire #1 Dark Spring

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Canada

Our Canadian Girl Marie Claire #3 The Vistors

Children's Books

Meet Marie-Claire, who lives with her family in Montreal in 1885. Her parents are hard-working, but there is very little money to spare, and Marie- Claire worries about what will happen if one of them falls ill. Then a smallpox epidemic sweeps through the city, and it seems every family is affected-even Marie-Claire's. Her father, a fireman, has been injured and is unable to work. As a result her mother must take a job as a seamstress, and Marie-Claire has to stay home from school to help with the household chores and to take care of Emilie and baby Philippe.

Our Canadian Girl Marie-Claire

Puffin Canada

Of the 3,200 people who died during the smallpox epidemic in 1885, 2,500 of them were children under the age of 10. In A Season of Sorrow, smallpox, which lurked on the periphery of Dark Spring, descends upon Marie-Claire and her family. How they, their community and the church cope with the epidemic, as well as with the controversial vaccine meant to guard against it, is the focus of this story.

Marie-Claire: A Season of Sorrow (Our Canadian Girl)

Red Is Best

Oxford University Press

Auntie's incessant snoring in the middle of the night sets off a long chain of events in this humorous picturebook. Where will the children find a quiet place to sleep?

Who's Sleeping in Aunties Bed

Oxford Univ. Pr.

So begins a long chain of events. Soon everyone is up and searching for a good night's sleep. But Aunty's house is just too full of elbows and knees, and snoring and singing, and counting and giggling for sleep to happen.

Who Is Sleeping In Aunty's Bed?

Fitzhenry and Whiteside

Red is Best

NOTE: Miniature book. Measures 3.4 x 3.4 inches The little girl in this simple but exuberant story knows that red barrettes are best, “because they make my hair laugh.”

Bt Bound

Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, who has been a landscape architect for more than sixty years, considers her profession “the art of the possible.” The description also applies to the very way this remarkable 86-year-old has lived her life. Playing in her grandmother’s garden as a child, Cornelia absorbed the beauty and importance of the natural world and by the age of eleven had decided that she would become a landscape architect. Leaving her native Germany in the wake of Hitler’s persecution of the Jews, the teenaged Cornelia was transplanted in America, where she could pursue her dream in safety, although not without having to struggle to carve out a place for herself in the male-dominated world of her chosen profession. This 96-page biography tells her remarkable life’s story, complete with photographs and plans for the imaginative playgrounds and the innovative museum and embassy grounds she has created around the world, and for green rooftops, her latest passion. Young readers will not only learn about the profession, but also will find inspiration in Cornelia Hahn Oberlander’s love for the natural world and the respect and concern she shows for our increasingly fragile environment.

Love Every Leaf: The Life of Landscape Architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander

Teen & Young Adult

Biographies

Tundra Books

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