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Celebrate Canada: Face-off!
Face-off! is an explanation of how three popular Canadian games are played: lacrosse, hockey, and basketball. Fact boxes provide additional information. The style in conversational and informative. Mostly simple sentences are used. Some...
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Celebrate Canada: How Steelpan Came to Canada (Gr 1)
About the invention of steelpan in Trinidad and how this musical instrument came to Canada.
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Celebrate Canada: I'm From Nova Scotia: Exploring My Black Heritage (Gr 5)
Co-written with grandmother – Andrea celebrates the history of the Black community in Nova Scotia and the accomplishments of famous Black Nova Scotians.
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Celebrate Canada: It's a Record!
It’s a Record! is a report on Canadian animals and birds that hold amazing records for size, speed, and travelling distances. Fact boxes titled “It’s wild!” provide additional information. The style is conversational...
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Celebrate Canada: It's Big
It’s Big is a description of some of Canada’s weird and wonderful roadside structures, from Glooscap to the Big Nickel to the gigantic Ukrainian pysanka. Fact boxes titled “Big fact” add additional information. The...
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Celebrate Canada: It's Puzzling!
It’s Puzzling! is explanation/puzzle. Characteristics of a Canadian animal are revealed in photographic puzzle pieces and readers are challenged to figure out which animal it is. When the puzzle is complete, readers see a caribou and...
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Celebrate Canada: Lighthouses
Lighthouses is a description that takes readers on a tour of four lighthouses in Nova Scotia. The distinctive style of each lighthouse is described and fact boxes titled “A bright fact” provide additional facts about lighthouses. ...
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Celebrate Canada: Massive!: Niagara Falls
Massive! Niagara Falls is a description of the world-dazzling southern Ontario attraction, from statistics to energy production to stunts. Fact boxes titled “A massive fact” provide additional information. The style is...
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Celebrate Canada: Muslims in Canada (Gr 5)
Part history book about the history of Muslims in Canada; part celebration of the positive impact of Canadian Muslims; and part memoir about the author's life as a Muslim kid growing up in Canada.
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Celebrate Canada: On the Money
On the Money is a report on Canada’s money, guiding readers through the stories displayed on our bright coins and colourful bills. Fact boxes provide additional information. The style is conversational and informative. A variety of...
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Celebrate Canada: Ottawa: Canada's Capital
Ottawa: Canada’s Capital is a report that takes readers on a tour of the landmarks in Canada’s history-rich capital city, from Parliament and the Peace Tower to the Rideau Canal to the Royal Canadian Mint – and more! Fact boxes...
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Celebrate Canada: Our Families, Our Homes (Gr 1)
A book highlighting three children from three different families--one from Alberta, one from Ontario, and one from Nova Scotia.