July 1 is Canada Day. Here are some suggestions, mostly fiction, if you’re ready to celebrate with a good book:
Picture Books:
Bannatyne-Cugnet, Jo. A Prairie Alphabet. Illustrated by Yvette Moore.
Carney, Margaret. At Grandpa’s Sugar Bush. Illustrated by Janet Wilson.
Carrier, Roch. The Hockey Sweater. Illustrated by Sheldon Cohen.
Gay, Marie-Louise. Stella, Queen of the Snow. Illus. Groundwood, 2000.
Ellis, Sarah. Next Stop! Illus. by Ruth Ohi. Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2000.
Harrison, Ted. A Northern Alphabet.
Kurelek, William. A Prairie Boy’s Winter.
Kurelek, William. A Prairie Boy’s Summer.
McFarlane, Sheryl. Jessie’s Island. Illustrated by Sheena Lott. Orca Book Publishers, 2005.
Service, Robert. The Cremation of Sam McGee. Illustrated by Ted Harrison.
Children’s Fiction:
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery, of course and all its sequels. Essential Canadiana.
Our Canadian Girl and Dear Canada series.
Curtis, Christopher Paul. Elijah of Buxton. Semicolon review here.
Hobbs, Will. Far North.
Mowat, Farley. Lost in the Barrens.
Mowat, Farley. Owls in the Family.
Stanbridge, Joanne. The Leftover Kid. Northern Lights, 1997.
YA and Adult Fiction:
Craven, Margaret. I Heard the Owl Call My Name.
Freedman, Benedict and Nancy. Mrs. Mike.
Mitchell, W.O. Who Has Seen the Wind?
I haven’t read all of these, but I plan to, whenever I can manage to find time for a Canada Project.
Ian McKenzie’s Top Twenty Ways to Tell If You’re Canadian.
More Canadian books, mostly for kids by Becky at Farm School.
Celebrating Literary Canada at Chasing Ray earlier this year.
Any more Canadian book suggestions?
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I love Mrs. Mike! Such a good book, good story, good people. It’s a good reality check when I’m being whiney, too!
Hi, I’ve just read two YA novels for the 2nd Canadian Book Challenge. It was weird for me to put myself in the head of a teen, twice! And it was hard for me to remember how vulerable teens sometimes feel so these books sure brought back some memories.
Psyche’s Children, by Catherine Joyce
Pure Spring, by Brian Doyle
I’ll post reviews on my blog soon.
Kathleen Molloy, author – Dining with Death
http://www.kathleenmolloy.offo.ca
Anything by Kit Pearson, Jean Little, Gordon Korman, Deborah Ellis, Kenneth Oppel,Janet Lunn and Barbara Smucker – all excellent Canadian children’s lit writers.
Barbara Reid, Phoebe Gilman and Robert Munsch are favourite picture book writers.
Happy Independence Day, too, Sherry, and thanks for the mention!
I’ll add anything by Pierre Berton, who wrote for adults and for children. And these:
The literature links from Northwest Passages bookseller
http://www.nwpassages.com/links.asp
Nicola’s Canadian History reading list
http://www.freewebs.com/canadianhomeschool/nicola's%20canadian%20history%20reading%20list.htm