("The trouble with Ivy was, she wouldn't eat her vegetable...)
"The trouble with Ivy was, she wouldn't eat her vegetables." What develops next in this classic battle of child vs. veggies is something no one could have imagined.
(Oh, that darn Frederic Pipin! He’ll do anything to get ou...)
Oh, that darn Frederic Pipin! He’ll do anything to get out of learning how to play an instrument, much to the chagrin of his loving parents who named him after the great Chopin. One day, however, the little fellow falls under the spell of an amazing conductor and owns up to his name by spinning some magic and writing a fabulous song!
(This richly illustrated book, the first of two volumes, t...)
This richly illustrated book, the first of two volumes, tells the epic story of Canada from its earliest days to the arrival of the industrial age in the 1870s. Here is the story of the people who created this vast nation. The courageous explorers who tracked the vast wilderness; the adventurous settlers, many of them exiles from their homelands; the native peoples, crucial allies in the Europeans’ wars for possession of this land; the visionary politicians, and the shortsighted ones; but most of all the ordinary people who rose to the extraordinary challenge of building Canada. These people are all given voice here, their stories blending with accounts of the major events of the day.
(Austin Grouper had a brown dog named Fresco, a best frien...)
Austin Grouper had a brown dog named Fresco, a best friend named Sternberg, and a red bicycle. His life was full. And then a girl named Amy moves in next door. Austin decides that she, like all girls, is yucky. But when the invitation to her birthday party arrives, it seems the only suitable present for Amy is the moon itself, and Austin is prepared to go to the ends of the earth to get it. Yuck, a Love Story will strike a familiar chord with anyone who has survived that earth-shattering first crush, and is written with the wit and wisdom of one who has been to the moon and back. Marie-Louise Gay's charming illustrations express a youthful innocence that matches the text perfectly.
(Volume Two opens with the rebellion over property and lan...)
Volume Two opens with the rebellion over property and language rights for the French-speaking Métis in Manitoba, led by the charismatic and troubled Louis Riel – a key event in our history and one that haunts us to this day. It closes with the less bloody but no less traumatic confrontation between the Mohawk and the army at Oka, Quebec, in 1990.
(Herman Oof is a giant. Sarah is a girl. Herman needs 140 ...)
Herman Oof is a giant. Sarah is a girl. Herman needs 140 hamburgers and 200 glasses of milk for a snack. Sarah does not. Herman takes to swallowing up entire cities and continents and drinking up lakes and oceans. Sarah is not amused. Herman has eaten her dog. When the island of Japan is all that's left of the world, Herman confesses that he might burst if he eats another bite. "You'd burst?" Sarah asks "Absolutely." Herman replies. An idea is born. Sarah realizes that it just might be possible to restore the world with a loud WHOOSH and only a few teeth marks as proof of what might have been. Pierre Pratt's inventive illustrations are the perfect accompaniment to this entertaining warning about the dangers of global over-consumption.
Insight and On Site: The Architecture of Diamond and Schmitt
(Part manifesto, part architectural monograph, this book a...)
Part manifesto, part architectural monograph, this book addresses today's most important architectural issues at a critical point in the future of the urban form. It features the most important projects in Diamond & Schmitt's oeuvre, interspersed with 11 essays, including one by Witold Rybczynski.
(Following the lives of David Thompson’s illegitimate son ...)
Following the lives of David Thompson’s illegitimate son and his descendants, Kanata takes readers on a fictionalized, multigenerational journey through millennia and across a continent to examine the stories, myths, and legends of those who formed the country and were formed by it.
(Stratford Behind the Scenes explores the process of build...)
Stratford Behind the Scenes explores the process of building a season, from choosing the playbill to set construction to performance. Filled with interviews, observations and breathtaking full-colour photography, this new coffee-table book will lead readers on a fascinating journey into corners of the Festival seldom seen by members of the public.
(Fleeing his violent Pentecostal father, as well as a crim...)
Fleeing his violent Pentecostal father, as well as a crime he committed in the parking lot of the first bar he ever entered, Ritt Devlin leaves Texas at fifteen, crossing the border into Alberta. Big for his age, he soon finds work on an oil rig on the outskirts of Medicine Hat. But that's not the life he wants, and he saves up to study geology. By the time he's in his early twenties he's the head of his own oil company.
(An eloquent and haunting exploration of suicide in which ...)
An eloquent and haunting exploration of suicide in which one of Canada's most gifted writers attempts to understand why his brother took his own life. Which leads him to another powerful question: Why are boomers killing themselves at a far greater rate than the Silent Generation before them or the generations that have followed?
Don Gillmor is a Canadian journalist and author. He has penned a number of award-winning books for children, non-fiction, and novels.
Background
Ethnicity:
Don Gillmor descended from Scots, who immigrated to Canada from the Shetland Islands.
Don Gillmor was born on March 3, 1954, in Fort Frances, Ontario, Canada. He is a son of Douglas and Donna Gillmor. He was raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where his father worked as an architect. Don had a brother.
Education
In 1977 Don Gillmor received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from the University of Calgary.
Don began writing in the early 1980s, 1991’s The Trouble with Justin would be Gillmor’s first book for young readers. The book, about a young boy whose messy bedroom is found to be hiding some totally amazing things.
When Vegetables Go Bad! (1994) addresses an insidious abuse that - because instances go unreported and therefore arc never investigated by the appropriate authorities - has caused suffering among children for generations: the act of forcing young, helpless children to eat vegetables. Broccoli, wax beans, the ever-despised lima beans, to say nothing of Brussel sprouts: these foodstuffs become the stuff of nightmare as veggie-hater Ivy goes to sleep and dreams of a world wherein she is pursued by vegetables left uneaten on her dinner plate.
The Fabulous Song (1996) features young Frederick Pipkin, who attempts to live up to his parents’ delusion that he is a musical prodigy.
He is also the author of other books, including a two-volume history of Canada, Canada: A People’s History, and three other books of non-fiction, The Desire of Every Living Thing, Stratford Behind the Scenes, and I Swear by Apollo.
His journalism and criticism have appeared in The Walrus, where he was a senior editor; Saturday Night and Toronto Life, where he was a contributing editor; and Rolling Stone, GQ, The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star, among other publications.