The Witness Blanket

By (author) Carey Newman & Kirstie Hudson
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples

For more than 150 years, thousands of Indigenous children were taken from their families and sent to residential schools across Canada.

Artist Carey Newman created the Witness Blanket to make sure that ...

Portrait in Poems, A

By (author) Evie Robillard
Illustrated by Rachel Katstaller
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Art and artists

A delightful introduction to one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century art and literature. Here’s an insider’s tour of the lives of Gertrude Stein and her partner, Alice B. Toklas, ...

Emily Carr

By (author) Jo Ellen Bogart
Illustrated by Maxwell Newhouse
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography

Shortlisted for the 2005-2006 Red Cedar Book Award, Nonfiction

Selected as Honour Book by the Children’s Literature Roundtable Information Book of the Year

The brilliant artist Emily Carr lived at the ...

Jumbo Book of Art, The

By (author) Irene Luxbacher
Illustrated by Irene Luxbacher
Categories: Children's Nonfiction
Series: Jumbo Books

Youngsters enjoy a wonderful creativity that allows them to express themselves joyfully through art. As they get older the urge to create remains, but they may not believe they possess "real" artistic ...