The 2011 CBC Massey Lectures celebrates fifty years with bestselling author, essayist, cultural observer, and famed New Yorker contributor Adam Gopnik, whose subject is winter -- the season, the space, the cycle. Gopnik takes us on an...
Winter
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Author:Birney, Betty G.Summary:It's the HAPPY-HAPPY-HAPPY holidays! The holidays are coming and Humphrey is unsqueakably excited. He loves to hear about all the different ways his friends in Room 26 celebrate and to watch them make costumes and learn songs for...
- Author:Smith, AliSummary:
From the Man Booker-short-listed and Baileys Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both, the highly anticipated second novel in the acclaimed Seasonal series, which both continues the arc of the series and is also an extraordinary...
- Author:Van Wart, DianeSummary:
Little Hare is young, and it is his first winter. He wants to learn about the things he sees in the yard, so he asks his friend, Wilson for help in identifying them.
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Author:Obed, Ellen BryanSummary:From the first ice, a thin skin on a bucket of water, through thickly-iced fields, streams, and gardens, a girl, her family, and friends anticipate and enjoy a winter of skating, ending with an ice show complete with costumes,...
- Author:Carey, Elizabeth DoyleSummary:
As the four Callahan cousins spend winter break at their grandmother Gee's estate on Gull Island, they fill their time with such activities as sledding, snowman contests, caroling, and a drama-packed sleepover at the Gull Island Whaling...
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Author:Dawson, WillowSummary:In a story set deep in the wild winter wood, two hungry ravens fly in search of their next meal. A pack of wolves is on the hunt, too. Food is scarce, but, if they team up, the ravens and wolves just might be able to help each other....
- Author:Loyie, Oskiniko LarrySummary:
Based on memories from his childhood, Aboriginal author Larry Loyie tells of the adventures of Lawrence, an Aboriginal boy who learns many lessons during the winter season. Lawrence learns respect for sled dogs and how to build a...
- Author:Lewis, C. S.Summary:
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is the second book in C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, a series that has become part of the canon of classic literature, drawing readers of all ages into a magical land with unforgettable...
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Author:Nuzum, K. A.Summary:In wintry Colorado during the 1930s, eleven-year-old Dessa Dean mourns the death of her beloved mother, but the arrival of an injured dog and the friendship they form is just what they need to change their lives forever.
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Author:Robinson, MariletaSummary:Seasons! Spot wants to play outside but it is too cold. Spot plays in a pile of leaves. Spot is playing outside, then the weather begins to change. Spot says hello to spring. Spot enjoys summer.
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Author:Doyle, BrianSummary:Spud Sweetgrass and his friends Connie Pan and Dink the Thinker are back. And this time Spud is in some frigid trouble. One morning Spud sees a terrible crime. And he can't get it out of his mind. Detective Kennedy wants him to tell her...
- Author:Holler, Sue FarrellSummary:
A little boy spends the day with his grandfather, endearingly imagining himself to be the caregiver. On a walk through the forest, the grandfather teaches him to identify a number of animals and their tracks: raven, rabbit, deer,...
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Author:Hart, MixSummary:Lydia Buckingham is fifteen years old when her parents uproot the family and drag Lydia and her younger sister Victoria across the country to live on the abandoned family homestead in rural Saskatchewan. At first the girls see this as...
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Author:Davidson, DianaSummary:In the deep winter of 1891, on the Métis settlement of Lac St. Anne, known as Manito Sakahigan in Cree, "Spirit Lake" has been renamed for the patron saint of childbirth. It is here that people journey in search of tradition, redemption...
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Author:Pendziwol, Jean E., Arsenault, IsabelleSummary:In this exquisite lullaby, the beauty and wonder of a northern winter night unfold, with images of a soft snowfall, the wild animals that appear in the garden, the twinkling stars, the gentle rhythm of the northern lights and the...
- Author:Christie, AgathaSummary:
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "Reading a perfectly plotted Agatha Christie is like crunching into a perfect apple: that pure, crisp, absolute satisfaction." —Tana French, New York Times bestselling author of the Dublin...
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Author:Nicholson, SusanSummary:Welcome to the Seven-Day Menu Planner. Mid-Winter menus start with Valentine’s Day when a bit of romance dominates the menu and ends with Easter, a special time to gather the family together. In between, there are five more weeks of...
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Author:BLADES, AnnSummary:Mary's father tells her she cannot keep a wolf puppy since the only animals kept by families in the cold North are those that work or provide food.
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Author:Bowes, LisaSummary:Dans ce livre d'images qui fait suite à Lucy Tries Luge, Lucy et ses amies chaussent leurs patins et essaient le patinage de vitesse sur courte piste.
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