Pierre Trudeau and his BEST FRIEND Prickles the Porcupine recruit a group of friends to play HIDE and SEEK. Everyone in the group thinks they have the BEST HIDING PLACE. Who do you think will have the BEST HIDING PLACE? ALL the PRIME MINISTERS' PETS are a series of ENTERTAINING books about our PRIME MINISTERS and are Excellent tools for LEARNING! They are Popular with Parents, Teachers and Children BECAUSE they are ENJOYABLE and they WORK! ALL the PRIME MINISTERS' PETS fuels your child's CURIOSITY and sparks their IMAGINATION in a FUN and ENJOYABLE way while introducing them at a young age to the NAMES and a FEW FACTS about the GREAT LEADERS who helped build Canada. Being able to RECOGNIZE the names of the Prime Ministers will facilitate INTEREST and further LEARNING about Canadian Prime Ministers and Canadian History. Your CHILD will be able to make BETTER CONNECTIONS to these important people as they ADVANCE with their education.

Wilfrid Laurier and Cha - Cha the Chimpanzee are BEST FRIENDS. They work hard around the farm but they love to get into MISCHIEF. What kind of MISCHIEF do you think Wilfrid Laurier and Cha - Cha the Chimpanzee like to get into? ALL the PRIME MINISTERS' PETS are a series of ENTERTAINING books about our PRIME MINISTERS and are Excellent tools for LEARNING! They are Popular with Parents, Teachers and Children BECAUSE they are ENJOYABLE and they WORK! ALL the PRIME MINISTERS' PETS fuels your child's CURIOSITY and sparks their IMAGINATION in a FUN and ENJOYABLE way while introducing them at a young age to the NAMES and a FEW FACTS about the GREAT LEADERS who helped build Canada. Being able to RECOGNIZE the names of the Prime Ministers will facilitate INTEREST and further LEARNING about Canadian Prime Ministers and Canadian History. Your CHILD will be able to make BETTER CONNECTIONS to these important people as they ADVANCE with their education.

“Don’t say in the years to come that you would have lived your life differently if only you had heard this story. You’ve heard it now.” —Thomas King, in this volume Read, Listen, Tell brings together an extraordinary range of Indigenous stories from across Turtle Island (North America). From short fiction to as-told-to narratives, from illustrated stories to personal essays, these stories celebrate the strength of heritage and the liveliness of innovation. Ranging in tone from humorous to defiant to triumphant, the stories explore core concepts in Indigenous literary expression, such as the relations between land, language, and community, the variety of narrative forms, and the continuities between oral and written forms of expression. Rich in insight and bold in execution, the stories proclaim the diversity, vitality, and depth of Indigenous writing. Building on two decades of scholarly work to centre Indigenous knowledges and perspectives, the book transforms literary method while respecting and honouring Indigenous histories and peoples of these lands. It includes stories by acclaimed writers like Thomas King, Sherman Alexie, Paula Gunn Allen, and Eden Robinson, a new generation of emergent writers, and writers and storytellers who have often been excluded from the canon, such as French- and Spanish-language Indigenous authors, Indigenous authors from Mexico, Chicana/o authors, Indigenous-language authors, works in translation, and “lost“ or underappreciated texts. In a place and time when Indigenous people often have to contend with representations that marginalize or devalue their intellectual and cultural heritage, this collection is a testament to Indigenous resilience and creativity. It shows that the ways in which we read, listen, and tell play key roles in how we establish relationships with one another, and how we might share knowledges across cultures, languages, and social spaces.

Believed by many to be one of the finest poets of his generation, Patrick Lane is also a passionate gardener. He lives on Vancouver Island, a place of uncommon beauty, where the climate is mild, the air is soft, and the growing season lasts nearly all year long. Lane has gardened for as long as he can remember, and sees his garden’s life as intertwined with his own. And when he gave up drinking, after years of addiction, he found solace and healing in tending to his yard. In this exquisitely written memoir, he relates stories of his hard early life in the context of the landscape he’s created. As he observes the seasonal changes, a plant or a bird or the way a tree bends in the wind brings to mind an episode from his storied past. Lane writes evocative descriptions of the animals, birds, insects, and plants that are his garden, and of the relationship he has to them all. Accompany Lane as he wanders his garden, where botanical “madeleines” release in him a flood of memory.

“Remember this night,” he said. “Mark it in your memories because tomorrow everything changes.” One starless night, a girl’s childhood was swept away by the terrors of the Khmer Rouge. Exiled from the city, she and her family were forced to live out in the open under constant surveillance. Each night, people were taken away. Caught up in a political storm which brought starvation to millions, tore families apart, and changed the world forever, she lost everyone she loved. Three decades later, Janie’s life in Montreal is unravelling. Haunted by her past, she has abandoned her husband and son and taken refuge in the home of her friend, the brilliant, troubled scientist, Hiroji Matsui. In 1970, Hiroji’s brother, James, travelled to Cambodia and fell in love. Five years later, the Khmer Rouge came to power, and James vanished. Brought together by the losses they endured, Janie and Hiroji had found solace in each another. And then, one strange day, Hiroji disappeared. Engulfed by the memories she thought she had fled, Janie must struggle to find grace in a world overshadowed by the sorrows of her past. Beautifully realized, deeply affecting, Dogs at the Perimeter evokes totalitarianism through the eyes of a little girl and draws a remarkable map of the mind’s battle with memory, loss, and the horrors of war. It confirms Madeleine Thien as one of the most gifted and powerful novelists writing today.

Over three million copies and 25 years later, Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia is revised and updated with the latest facts, figures, and technologies. Covering more than 380 topics from dinosaurs to digital technology, this highly visual guide engages young readers with photographic spreads and illustrations annotated with amazing trivia. Featuring full-color photographs, maps, cutaway diagrams, charts, and more, Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia is written in a clear and child-friendly style with updates that include recent space missions, scientific breakthroughs, and the latest significant events. Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia is perfect for reports, homework, and independent research. A great addition to any bookshelf, Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia is the essential book for curious young readers who want to know about everything.

Distinguished by its lyricism, depth of emotion, its metaphysical bent and the colour and wide range of reference in its imagery, The Fifth Window, opens up new vistas of language and experience. The landscape and climate of Vancouver and the BC coast imbue this collection with a spiritual and physical immediacy and energy. The area’s trees, mountains, rivers, creeks and rain inform an ecstatic vision in which the psyche and natural world meet and become one.