by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
This simple story in Cree and English explores a young child’s relationship to his grandmother, or nôhkom, as they go for a walk in the woods to pick rosehips. The young boy follows his grandmother, walking, listening, praying, picking and eating, just as she does. In...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
By the time Sienna arrives at the art table in her classroom, all the crayons are gone except dark brown and light brown. Now how can she make a special picture for the art show? Andy teases that all she’ll be able to draw is mud and dog poop. Her teacher tries to...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
Clear Skies takes place during the very hot summer of 1961 when the Space Race was well underway but no one had yet stepped onto the Moon. Eleven-year-old Arno Creelman asks all kinds of big questions about the universe. He is sure that being an astronomer will be his...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
In From There to Here, a little girl and her family have just moved across the country by train. Their new neighborhood in the city of Toronto is very different from their home in the Saskatchewan bush, and at first everything about “there” seems better than...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
A young girl delights in a visit to her grandpa’s farm. She and her cousins run through the fields, explore the root cellar where the salmon and jars of fruit are stored, swing on a rope out the barn loft window, visit the Appaloosa in the corral and tease the...
