Dear Canada: Hoping for Home

• Kit Pearson (auteur)

  Kit Pearson is one of Canada’s best-loved historical writers. She’s the award-winning author of The Daring Game, the acclaimed Guests of War series: The Sky Is Falling, Looking at the Moon and The Lights Go on Again, as well as Awake and Dreaming, and editor of This Land: A Cross-Country Anthology of Canadian Fiction for Young Readers. Kit has won numerous awards for her writing. She has twice been a winner of the CLA Book of the Year for Children Award and the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction. She has also won the Governor General's Literary Award, the Mr. Christie's Book Award and the Ruth Schwartz Award. She is a former librarian, and one of Canada's foremost writers for young people.

• Jean Little (auteur)

  JEAN LITTLE est l’une des auteures émérites les plus aimées au pays. Elle a écrit plus de 50 livres qui ont été traduits en 20 langues. Parmi ceux-ci figurent certains des ouvrages pour enfants les plus populaires au Canada, tels que Maman va t’acheter un moqueur, Mine for Keeps et Dans les yeux d'Anna. Jean a aussi signé plusieurs livres de la collection Cher Journal. Membre de l’Ordre du Canada pour sa contribution exceptionnelle à la littérature canadienne pour enfants, elle a reçu de nombreux prix nationaux et internationaux. Jean nous a malheureusement quittés en 2020. JEAN LITTLE has been called “a Canadian treasure.” She wrote more than fifty books including some of Canada’s best-loved children’s books, such as From Anna (Dans les yeux d'Anna), Listen for the Singing, Mine for Keeps, Orphan at my Door (Ma soeur orpheline), and Pippin the Christmas Pig (Le Noël de Pétunia). Many of her books feature children who are orphaned, have a disability, or face other challenges. Jean’s books have been translated into a dozen languages and have won many awards, including a Canadian Library Association Book of the Year award, the Ruth Schwartz Award, the Canada Council Literature Prize, and the Boston Globe Horn-Book Honor Book Award. She was honoured with the Vicky Metcalf Award for her body of work, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal and the Order of Canada and was nominated for the international Astrid Lindgren Award eight times. Jean died in 2020.

• Paul Yee (auteur)

  Paul Yee has written almost 20 picture books and novels, contemporary and historical, about the Chinese experience in Canada. He is also a historian, with an M.A. in Canadian History from UBC, who has worked for the City of Vancouver Archives and Archives of Ontario. Born in Saskatchewan and raised in Vancouver, he now lives in Toronto, Ontario.

• Ruby Slipperjack (auteur)

  Ruby Slipperjack was born in Whitewater Lake, Ontario. She learned traditional stories and crafts from her family. In the 1960s she attended a Residential School in northern Ontario for most of a year, and later, high school in Thunder Bay. She has written 5 novels for middle grade and teen readers: Dog Tracks, Little Voice, Silent Words, Weesquachak, and Honour the Sun, and indigenous story contributions to the Dear Canada anthologies Hoping for Home: Stories of Arrival and A Time for Giving. Ruby lives in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Auteur(s) : Kit Pearson, Jean Little, Shelley Tanaka, Brian Doyle, Rukhsana Khan, Paul Yee, Afua Cooper, Ruby Slipperjack, Irene N. Watts

Editeur : Scholastic Canada

Auteur(s) : Kit Pearson, Jean Little, Shelley Tanaka, Brian Doyle, Rukhsana Khan, Paul Yee, Afua Cooper, Ruby Slipperjack, Irene N. Watts

Publication : 27 décembre 2016

Intérieur : Noir & blanc

Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [ePub]

Contenu(s) : ePub

Protection(s) : Aucune (ePub)

Taille(s) : 2,7 Mo (ePub)

Langue(s) : Anglais

EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [ePub] : 9781443128124