Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice Citation, Starred Selection  Mr. Christie's Book Award Nomination Ruth Schwartz Award Nomination  Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children's Literature Nomination  Amelia Frances HowardGibbon Award Nomination  Alberta Trade Book of the Year Nomination   Alberta Children's Book of the Year Award From Arctic, Bonhomme and Imax to kayak, Ogopogo and zed, Eh? to Zed takes children on an alphabetic, fun–filled tour of Canada. Set in tightly linked rhyming verse, the words for this unique book resonate with classic and contemporary images from every province and territory in the country. Included are place names from Cavendish to Yarmouth and icons that will prompt discussion of Canada's many regions, and its culture, discoveries and heritage. Accompanying the inventive text is a visual feast via the colorful palette of well–known illustrator Alan Daniel. He provides a witty mixture of folk art paintings, toys and models that leap from the page with a whimsical energy that delights the imagination. A treasure for families, a desirable souvenir for visitors to Canada, and a perfect resource for schools and libraries, Eh? to Zed celebrates what makes us truly Canadian, eh.

Eh? to Zed: A Canadian Abecedarium

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Red Deer Press

Jeremy Sadness is a professional grad student of New York State University who heads out for the wilds of northwestern Canada to work out his inadequacies.

Gone Indian

Kroetsch, Robert

Humor & Satire

Music at the Heart of Thinking

Wah, Fred

A powerful postmodern novel combining the elements of a psychological thriller with the history of a people trapped by landscape and politics. A poetically charged text prowls the isolation and heartbreak of a girl growing up in Iceland in the post-war years, and her later experiences as an immigrant in North America. What emerges is a widening mystery of origins in which every word becomes a clue to the unspoken.

Prowler

Gunnars, Kristjana

United States

A powerful postmodern novel combining the elements of a psychological thriller with the history of a people trapped by landscape and politics. A poetically charged text prowls the isolation and heartbreak of a girl growing up in Iceland in the post-war years, and her later experiences as an immigrant in North America. What emerges is a widening mystery of origins in which every word becomes a clue to the unspoken.

The Prowler (Fiction)

INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. First printing in oblong paper covers. Inscribed by Ms. Graham on the front end paper. Fine.

The Most Beautiful Kite in the World

Spalding, Andrea

Graham, Georgia

Taking the Field: The Best of Baseball Fiction

BOWERING, George

Internationally acclaimed novelist Aritha van Herk takes geography and fiction and creates of them a fiction mapped on the lines of geography, a geography following the course of fiction. A new reading of Tolstoy's tragic heroine Anna Karenina and a sojourn at Ellesmere Island come together, and the North becomes an incomparably beautiful place, a living, unread, feminine landscape.

Places Far From Ellesmere (Anthologies)

Van Herk, Aritha

Nominee, Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction 
 The story of a daughter's vigil over her father's death and her journey through grief in the aftermath of his decision to die with dignity. An unforgettable book, a poetically charged memoir of the author's passage through grief.

Zero Hour

Biographies & Memoirs

"Nominee, Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction" The story of a daughter's vigil over her father's death and her journey through grief in the aftermath of his decision to die with dignity. An unforgettable book, a poetically charged memoir of the author's passage through grief.

Zero Hour (Anthologies)

Parenting & Relationships

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