by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
Finding beauty in the world is a child’s right. Can I learn about inventions around the world? Can I listen to the music of my country? And can I, too, dress up and perform on a stage? Yes! I have the right to do all these things because it is proclaimed in the United...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
The child in this story observes the sun by playing with her shadow, though sometimes it disappears. She listens to the wind tell stories, even when it howls like wolves. She tastes snowflakes — sometimes sweet and delicate; other times sharp on her cheeks. And...
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...
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
When a young girl visits the site of Africville, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the stories she’s heard from her family come to mind. She imagines what the community was once like — the brightly painted houses nestled into the hillside, the field where boys played football,...
