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Looks Like Daylight: Voices of Indigenous Kids by Deborah Ellis, foreword by Loriene Roy

28 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Canadian, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

Deborah Ellis has a doubly powerful schtick: first, her nonfiction titles give underrepresented children a highly visible podium for their very own words (Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak, Off to War: Voices of Soldiers’ Children, Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees, Kids of Kabul: Living Bravely through...

One Step at a Time : A Vietnamese Child Finds Her Way by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

25 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Biography, Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American, Vietnamese American

Introduced to U.S. readers by award-winning Canadian author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch in last year's Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan’s Rescue from War, Son Thi Ahn Tuyet's story continues – literally one step at a time. Now that Tuyet has a real home with her own real family – Dad, Mom, sisters Beth and...

My Name Is Blessing by Eric Walters, illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes

09 Nov, by SIBookDragon in African, Canadian, Children/Picture Books, Nonfiction

Muthini – whose name means "suffering ...

Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb

06 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, African, Audio, British, Canadian, Fiction

Raised as a Roman Catholic convinced of at least one past life as a Jewish grandmother, I find myself in my old age utterly wary of institutionalized religions, repeatedly alarmed at what we human beings commit upon one another in the name of various (one-and-only)...

When I Was Eight by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard

20 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Canadian, Children/Picture Books, Memoir, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, Nonfiction

Although she "knew many things when [she] was eight," what Olemaun didn't know was "how to read the outsiders' books. It was not enough to hear them from my older sister, Rosie. I longed to read them for myself." Against her father's wishes – "[h]e knew things...

An Infidel in Paradise by S.J. Laidlaw

13 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Canadian, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Pakistani, Young Adult Readers

Emma is hardly the typical Canadian teenager. At 16, she's lived all over the world, thanks to her career diplomat mother, who Emma currently blames for all the latest terrible events in her life: she's in yet another new country – this time Pakistan with some...

The Man with the Violin by Kathy Stinson, illustrated by Dušan Petričić, with a postscript by Joshua Bell

11 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Canadian, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction

Go ahead ...

Kenta and the Big Wave by Ruth Ohi

06 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Japanese

"When Kenta heard the warning siren, he ran to school ...

Beyond the Moongate: True Stories of 1920s China by Elizabeth Quan

17 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Children/Picture Books, Chinese, Memoir, Nonfiction

"Moongates dotted the landscape of Old China," the second of artist Elizabeth Quan's two-part childhood memoir begins. "Stepping through one of these doorways was to enter a world of peace and happiness ...

OY FEH SO? by Cary Fagan, illustrated by Gary Clement

06 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Canadian, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Jewish

"Every Sunday my two aunts and my uncle come to visit." This isn't exactly a joyous occasion for the three children who watch from the front window as the old Lincoln arrives in the driveway. They know only too well what to expect: "Oy," sighs...

Nini by François Thisdale

23 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Canadian, Children/Picture Books, Chinese, Fiction, Translation

Created by the illustrator of the mesmerizing, award-winning The Stamp Collector, Nini may be François Thisdale's most personal story – it's directly inspired by his experience about the adoption of his own daughter. "It was a wonderful challenge, having to say intimate things with words and images," he reveals...

War Brothers: The Graphic Novel by Sharon E. McKay and Daniel Lafrance, illustrated by Daniel Lafrance

11 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, African, Canadian, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

If you look at the bottom of this post at "Filed under," you'll see this title is listed as both "Fiction" and "Nonfiction." That's not a mistake – and the explanation is found in the book's "Postscript": "This is a book of fiction based on...

The Stamp Collector by Jennifer Lanthier, illustrated by François Thisdale

03 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Canadian, Children/Picture Books, Chinese, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

Here's how this mesmerizing book begins ...

Astray by Emma Donoghue

24 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Canadian, Fiction, Irish, Nonethnic-specific, Short Stories

Maybe it's the craziness of the season, but I've really been appreciating short story collections. This latest title from Emma Donoghue – the author of the phenomenal Room – is an intriguingly composed compilation: Donoghue presents a story introduced with a specific city and year, then gives the 'ripped-from-the-headlines'...

Mimi’s Village: And How Basic Health Care Transformed It by Katie Smith Milway, illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes

18 Dec, by SIBookDragon in African, Canadian, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

When Mimi and her little sister Nakkissi go to fetch the family's water from the stream one hot day, Mimi does something she knows she shouldn't: she realizes that tired Nakkissi can't walk all the way home without a drink, so she gives her "two handfuls...

Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees by Deborah Ellis

24 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Canadian, Iraqi, Middle Eastern, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

Bestselling Canadian anti-war activist Deborah Ellis’s four nonfiction titles (thus far) for younger readers should be bundled together and sent to every policymaker throughout the world. Two of those four, Kids of Kabul: Living Bravely through a Never-Ending War and Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak, give voice to children living...

Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak by Deborah Ellis

18 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Canadian, Israeli, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Palestinian, Young Adult Readers

Given the latest headlines in the Middle East, this seems to be the perfect time for another Deborah Ellis title. Best known for her Breadwinner Trilogy (The Breadwinner, Parvana’s Journey, and Mud City) which became a tetralogy this fall with My Name is Parvana, Ellis is an...

Requiem by Frances Itani

15 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Audio, Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, Japanese American

While I can hardly estimate the many, many books I’ve read about the Japanese American experience during World War II, I know few details about what happened to Japanese Canadians. The lone fact that looms is that like their Japanese American counterparts on the West...

My Name is Parvana by Deborah Ellis

20 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Afghan, Canadian, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

What delighted anticipation I felt when I heard that Deborah Ellis' multi-award-winning Breadwinner Trilogy (The Breadwinner, Parvana’s Journey, and Mud City), after almost a decade since its completion, was becoming a tetrology! I adamantly hoped for such at the end of my Mud City post:...

Kids of Kabul: Living Bravely through a Never-Ending War by Deborah Ellis

07 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Afghan, Canadian, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

Mega-award-winning author Deborah Ellis’s active interest in Afghanistan began in 1996 when she heard about the Taliban takeover of that country "and the crimes they perpetrated against women and girls." She became involved with the Afghan communities in her native Canada, then traveled to meet...

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