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Young Adult/ChildrenTale highlights importance of school, family supports for neurodivergent kids
Winnipeg-based author Jodi Carmichael is back with a new middle grade novel, The U-nique Lou Fox. Ten-year-old Lou lives with ADHD and dyslexia, and as a result, school does not come easily for her. Like many neurodivergent children, Lou often finds herself in hot water for drifting off task and losing focus in class, and this is very frustrating for her, to say the least. -
Young Adult/ChildrenTale of the raven offers Gitxsan teaching, perspective of interdependence
In the midst of a climate crisis, it has never been more important to understand how ecosystems work. That’s why Hetxw’ms Gyetxw, or Brett D. Huson, of the Gitxsan Nation in northwestern British Columbia, decided to write engaging and informative books about the creatures on his home territory. -
Young Adult/ChildrenPartager avec les enfants des bribes d’histoires et du temps des Inuits
La série d’albums jeunesse historiques de la chanteuse Susan Aglukark partage des beaux moments de changement dans la vie de la génération de sa mère, la dernière génération traditionnelle inuite habitant le Grand Nord du Canada. -
Young Adult/Children
Susan Aglukark shares stories of Inuit life and history with children
Singer-songwriter Susan Aglukark’s series of historical picture books shares beautiful moments of change in the lives of her mother’s generation, the last traditional generation of Inuit in Canada’s North. -
En FrançaisDe courts textes écrits en français avec un léger accent anglais
Petites nouvelles du Last Best Ouest est un livre écrit en français avec de l’anglais dedans. Pourtant, le nouveau recueil de poèmes de Pierrette Requier est plus que ça. Beaucoup plus que ça. -
En Français
Short pieces written written in French with a slight English accent
Petites nouvelles du Last Best Ouest is a book written in French with English in it. But of course, Pierrette Requier’s new poetry collection is more than that. Much more than that. -
Features
Dispatches
Writers in Canada have such powerful and varied stories to tell, and by presenting them in audio, those stories are given even further dimension. Creating an audiobook is a careful process of matching a story with a spoken voice that will intrigue and delight, in equal measure. -
FictionA veterinarian and wannabe detective engages with hometown dynamics
“This province too often gets short shrift, and is dismissed as dull or as not especially distinct from its western neighbours, but there is a definite ‘Manitobaness’ that I want to introduce to people,” Philipp Schott says about setting his new novel, Fifty-Four Pigs, in Manitoba. -
FictionA weapon, an obsession, and a father-daughter bond form centre of Sweatman’s latest
Margaret Sweatman is a force of nature. The Winnipeg-based writer is an essayist, poet, playwright, musician, and songwriter who received a Genie award for a song she co-wrote with Glenn Buhr. Her fiction has also won many awards, including the Rogers Writers’ Trust, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year, and the Sunburst awards. The Gunsmith’s Daughter is her sixth novel. -
FictionLaugh-out-loud humour and sadness mix in novel about belonging and alienation
Winnipeg-based Méira Cook is an award-winning author and poet, and her latest novel, The Full Catastrophe, has the blend of poignancy and comedy so evident in her previous novel Once More with Feeling.
