Dear Canada: A Time for Giving: Ten Tales of Christmas

• 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.

• Sarah Ellis (auteur)

  Ellis is a librarian and critic.

• Carol Matas (auteur)

  CAROL MATAS is an internationally acclaimed author of more than 45 books for children and young adults. Her best-selling work has been translated into sixteen languages and has received over 100 awards and honors including the Sydney Taylor Award, the Geoffrey Bilson Award, the Silver Birch Award, and Canadian Jewish Book Award. She has twice been nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature. She lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

• Karleen Bradford (auteur)

  Karleen Bradford is the beloved, award-winning author of many novels. Though her first book was not published until she was forty, the same year she became a pilot and a scuba diver, Karleen cannot remember a time when she didn't write. In grade four her friends whispered desperately to one another, "Run! Hide! Karleen's written another play and she's going to make us act in it." Karleen grew up in Argentina, then lived all over South and Central America and Europe as the wife of a Foreign Service Officer. She now lives and writes in Owen Sound, Ontario, with her husband, Jim, and a gentle gia

• Barbara Haworth-Attard (auteur)

  BARBARA HAWORTH-ATTARD's previous novels have garnered numerous award wins and nominations. Her previous contribution to Scholastic's Dear Canada series, A Trail of Broken Dreams, was shortlisted for the CLA Book of the Year Award. In her spare time Barbara loves to read, write, quilt, and be entertained by her two cats. She lives in London, 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) : Jean Little, Sarah Ellis, Carol Matas, Karleen Bradford, Norah McClintock, Janet McNaughton, Susan M. Aihoshi, Barbara Haworth-Attard, Ruby Slipperjack

Editeur : Scholastic Canada Ltd

Auteur(s) : Jean Little, Sarah Ellis, Carol Matas, Karleen Bradford, Norah McClintock, Janet McNaughton, Susan M. Aihoshi, Barbara Haworth-Attard, Ruby Slipperjack

Publication : 1 septembre 2015

Intérieur : Noir & blanc

Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [ePub]

Contenu(s) : ePub

Protection(s) : Marquage social (ePub)

Taille(s) : 3,44 Mo (ePub)

Langue(s) : Anglais

EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [ePub] : 9781443133746