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Canadian Indigenous Books for Schools 2011/12 ASSOCIATION OF BOOK PUBLISHERS OF BC Canadian Aboriginal Books for Schools selected & evaluated by teacher-librarians 2011•2012 Linus Woods | Dog Soldier, 2011 0+6'&+$4#4;'48+%'5 :HVWHUQ&DQDGDVOHDGLQJERRNZKROHVDOHU Proud to support the Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia and the Canadian Aboriginal Books for Schools catalogue. Our Burnaby, BC facility offers the majority of these titles at a 30% discount. Custom, in-house cataloguing and processing available. *19411/f#4'*175' ENEgGHGN4+)*6108'T 740#$;XIG H 10&#;g*745&#;U 2*TJNHgHFEgEEIH LUEI#/gIUNN2/ 61..(4''UEgLKKgLIGgEFNN 4+&#; (#:UJNHgHFEgFFEJ LUGN#/gHUNN2/ 61..(4''(#:UEgLJJgHFEgFFEJ 14;174%108'0+'0%'X9'#4'12'0 '/#+.U$740#$;u7.5T%1/ MUNN#/gFUNN2/10'#674&#; '8'4;/106*(41/'26'/$'46170' +5+675+02'451061&#;X1410.+0'#6999T7.5T%1/ INTRODUCTION CANADIAN ABORIGINAL BOOKS FOR SCHOOLS WELCOME TO OUR 2011/12 CATALOGUE Dear teacher-librarians, public librarians, wholesalers and retailers: It is very gratifying for the Association of Book Publishers of BC (ABPBC) and its members to be able to provide teacher-librarians with the fourth Canadian Aboriginal Books for Schools. Over the years, we have received many positive comments about this resource, which has become one of the most comprehensive in this subject area. Your peers selected all the titles in the “AbCat” for their suitability as supplementary resources for school libraries. Our evaluation team provides thoughtful feedback to us on curriculum match and grade levels, as well as appropriate comments and cautions. We value their expertise enormously. The ABPBC has been providing the catalogues BC Books for BC Schools and Canadian Aboriginal Books for Schools for many years now. We have learned a lot in the process. If you are new to the catalogue you will find that they are helpfully organized first by appropriate level: Elementary (K-7), Secondary (8-12) and Cross-Grades for those books that are appropriate at both levels. Entries are organized alphabetically by title within each section. Because this catalogue is distributed nationally we have chosen to provide generic subject areas, which we hope is sufficient for your resourcing needs. Note too that the catalogue is available online at books.bc.ca under Resources for Teacher-Librarians. If you have any feedback on the catalogues or wish to be added to our mailing list, please email us at [email protected]. Yours truly, Margaret Reynolds Executive Director Association of Book Publishers of BC September 2011 PLEASE NOTE The Association of Book Publishers of BC cannot fill orders. Please send order to your wholesaler or local retailer or to one of our advertisers who support the production of this catalogue. COVER ARTIST Linus Woods Dog Soldier, 2011 Linus Woods is a Dakota/Ojibway Indian artist from the Long Plain First Nation in Southern Manitoba. While he has taken a few art and Native studies courses at Brandon University he is largely self-taught. Linus sees his paintings as expressions and extensions of his spiritual journey. His acrylic, oil and collage works on canvas feature pastel pallets and geometric shapes, and often include collaged images. CANADIAN ABORIGINAL BOOKS FOR SCHOOLS 2011–2012 CATALOGUE ELEMENTARY ANGUTi’s AMULET CHRISTMAS LA FIGHT FOR JUSTICE I SEE ME ANGUTIUP ÂNGUANGA POUCHINN Lori Saigeon Margaret Manuel The Central Coast of Deborah L. Delaronde When Justice and his twin sister This appealing and sturdy Labrador Archaeology Virginia McCoy Charity become the targets of board book will provide a useful Partnership bullying, Justice feels it is up resource to accompany The Cynthia Colosimo A Métis boy spends a year to him to defend his family’s Roots of Empathy Program, an Sophie Tuglavina, trans. helping his grandparents at their cabin. Colourful, honour. But the bullies are expanding Social Responsibility This story, presented in both stylized pictures illustrate the bigger and more violent than project for studying babies Inuktitut and English, was traditional activities of each he is and the situation seems and mothers in early primary written by students working season culminating in a family beyond resolve. Afraid that classrooms. The simple pattern on an archaeological project reunion and the celebration of telling will only make things phrase of “I see me ...” on each in Labrador, a site inhabited Christmas and La Pouchinn worse, Justice hides the truth. page ends with a different verb, from 1720-1750. The story pudding. The poetic text lends His favourite place is the reserve highlighted in upper case letters, draws on their work, historical itself to reading aloud. The where his Mushum and Kokum which clearly describes the documents and oral history. pictures expand the text with live and there Justice finds some action of the baby pictured. A One winter, meat and oil have warmth and humour. Recipes peace as well as some good blank line below each sentence run out. Anguti’s anânsiak for La Pouchinn and Maple advice. With help from his in English allows for a different (Grandmother), an Ilitsitsok Sauce are included at the end family his self-confidence grows language to be added. The (shaman), predicts a terrible of the book along with a brief and Justice learns to look at the photographs depict the baby storm but that does not deter vocabulary guide. world that the bullies live in and playing with an aboriginal drum his father and brothers from to stand up for himself without and rattle as well as displaying hunting. Anguti and his sister resorting to violence. typical infant behaviour with set out after them. They kill a verbs such as drink, eat, smile, seal on an ice floe, then begin cry and to conclude, a hug and to drift far from home. After kiss with Mom. three days, they are rescued. The author is of Okanagan Anânsiak had sewn amulets into and Shuswap ancestry. She was Anguti’s parka to protect them. born in Kamloops, BC and is A separate section of the book the mother of two. provides images of an amulet and many tools and materials of Inuit life. GRADES: 3–7, SOCIAL STUDIES GRADES: K–4, english GRADES: 3–6, english GRADES: K–2, english LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL LANGUAGE ARTS, HEALTH & LANGUAGE ARTS, HEALTH & Index/Bibliography: No/No STUDIES CAREER EDUCATION CAREER EDUCATION ©2010 38 pp. 9"x8" Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No colour illustrations, b/w & colour photographs ©2011 32 pp. 8"x8" ©2009 128 pp. 5"x7" ©2009 8 pp. 5.75"x5.75" ISBN: 9781897317914 $14.95 PA colour illustrations ISBN: 9781550504057 $7.95 PA colour photographs ISBN: 9781894778879 $19.95 HC ISBN: 9781894778855 $6.95 HC Flanker Press Coteau Books www.flankerpress.com Theytus Books www.coteaubooks.com Theytus Books www.theytus.com www.theytus.com 2 ASSOCIATION OF BOOK PUBLISHERS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA www.books.bc.ca ELEMENTARY MAN-TO-MAN MELANIE MUIN AND THE STORM CHILD Bill Swan BLUELAKE’s drEAM SEVEN BIRD Brenda Bellingham Betty Dorion HUNTERS In this novel in the Sports A mi’KMAW NIGHT SKY STORY In this historical adventure story Stories series, Michael is the Melanie’s mother moves to a bi-racial girl must rebuild smallest player on his lacrosse the city to finish her education Lillian Marshal, et al her life after being abandoned Kristy Read & team, the Thunder. He isn’t taking 10-year old Melanie by her Scottish father at Fort Sana Kavanagh respected or getting any playing along. Melanie resents losing Edmonton in the 1830s. Isobel time at the Ontario Provincial (Storm Child) struggles with the familiarity of life with This Mi’kmaw traditional sky Championships. Off the court, prejudice from both white and Kohkom, her grandmother, story, in Mi'kmaq and English, the Thunder and their rival native sides as she tries to fit on a Cree reserve in northern explains the movement of Ursa team, the Six Nations War- back in with her aboriginal Saskatchewan. Life in the Major (Big Dipper) around the riors, get into a scuffle over a family. At the same time, she city is difficult for them both; North Star (Tatapn) during misunderstanding. Tournament is discovering who she is as a she resists her mother’s new each of the seasons. As such, the officials misinterpret it as a seri- person in her own right. While bossiness and money is very stars were the calendar before ous fight with racial undertones on her travels she deals with tight. Though they learn to modern timekeeping. The seven and decide to disqualify both racial differences surrounding understand and appreciate hunters, each a star of Ursa teams. All the boys must work clothing, religion, family values, each other, in the end Melanie Major, are different species of together to convey the truth and gender and education. Isobel/ learns that although dreams can birds who are trying to catch save their places in the finals. Storm Child learns valuable come true, the reality can be their prey, the bear (muin). Michael’s sportsmanship and lessons from both cultures, but bittersweet. A helpful glossary During winter the bear’s spirit eloquence unexpectedly cast ultimately follows her own heart of Cree words is included. enters another bear, continuing him in a leadership which he as she remodels her life. Dorion also wrote Bay Girl. a never-ending cycle. Each also takes to the court during an Though published in 1985 This is her first novel. Racette of the birds has a different exciting final game. this historic story still has wrote and illustrated The Flower personality, reinforcing cultural Caution: Contains currency. The jacket cover, Beadwork People. This novel was expectations like generosity derogatory comments about however, may not appeal to a finalist for several Canadian and gratitude.
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