Tilly and the Crazy Eights

Tilly and the Crazy Eights PDF

Author: Monique Gray Smith

Publisher: Second Story Press

Published: 2018-10-09

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1772600784

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When Tilly receives an invitation to help drive eight elders on their ultimate bucket-list road trip, she impulsively says yes. Before she knows it, Tilly has said good-bye to her family and is on an adventure that will transform her in ways she could not predict, just as it will for the elders who soon dub themselves “the Crazy Eights.” The Crazy Eights each choose a stop—somewhere or something they’ve always wanted to experience—on the way to their ultimate goal, the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow in Albuquerque. Their plan is to travel to Las Vegas, Sedona, and the Redwood Forests, with each destination the inspiration for secrets and stories to be revealed. The trip proves to be powerful medicine as they laugh, heal, argue, and dream along the way. By the time their bus rolls to a stop in New Mexico, Tilly and the Crazy Eights, with friendships forged and hearts mended, feel ready for anything. But are they?

Tilly

Tilly PDF

Author: Monique Gray Smith

Publisher: Sono NIS Press

Published: 2014-02

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781550392098

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Kelly creates a cabin out of a huge cardboard box but has no one to share it with.

When We Are Kind

When We Are Kind PDF

Author: Monique Gray Smith

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 2020-07-14

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1459821475

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Key Selling Points Simple, pointed text gives examples of how children can be kind to those around them, the different emotions that receiving kindness can make us feel, and how we maintain a connection with one another through acts of kindness within our community. The author is well-known for her board and picture books. Her title My Heart Fills With Happiness was selected for the 2019 TD Grade One Book Giveaway. Like the author's bestselling title You Hold Me Up, the text relays an important message through carefully chosen language. The illustrator is Diné (Navajo) from New Mexico. She was inspired by her community to illustrate an Indigenous family.

Speaking Our Truth

Speaking Our Truth PDF

Author: Monique Gray Smith

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 2017-09-19

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 145981584X

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Holding each other up with respect, dignity and kindness.

My Heart Fills With Happiness

My Heart Fills With Happiness PDF

Author: Monique Gray Smith

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 2016-02-23

Total Pages: 25

ISBN-13: 1459809599

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★ "A quiet loveliness, sense of gratitude, and—yes—happiness emanate from this tender celebration of simple pleasures."--Publishers Weekly, starred review The sun on your face. The smell of warm bannock baking in the oven. Holding the hand of someone you love. What fills your heart with happiness? This beautiful board book, with illustrations from celebrated artist Julie Flett, serves as a reminder for little ones and adults alike to reflect on and cherish the moments in life that bring us joy. International speaker and award-winning author Monique Gray Smith wrote My Heart Fills with Happiness to support the wellness of Indigenous children and families, and to encourage young children to reflect on what makes them happy.

Land-Water-Sky / Ndè-Tı-Yat’a

Land-Water-Sky / Ndè-Tı-Yat’a PDF

Author: Katłıà Katłįà

Publisher: Fernwood Publishing

Published: 2020-10-11T00:00:00Z

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1773634283

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A vexatious shapeshifter walks among humans. Shadowy beasts skulk at the edges of the woods. A ghostly apparition haunts a lonely stretch of highway. Spirits and legends rise and join together to protect the north. Land-Water-Sky/Ndè-Tı-Yat’a is the debut novel from Dene author Katłıà. Set in Canada’s far north, this layered composite novel traverses space and time, from a community being stalked by a dark presence, a group of teenagers out for a dangerous joyride, to an archeological site on a mysterious island that holds a powerful secret. Riveting, subtle, and unforgettable, Katłıà gives us a unique perspective into what the world might look like today if Indigenous legends walked amongst us, disguised as humans, and ensures that the spiritual significance and teachings behind the stories of Indigenous legends are respected and honored. We acknowledge the support of Arts Nova Scotia.

You Hold Me Up

You Hold Me Up PDF

Author: Monique Gray Smith

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 2017-10-31

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1459814495

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Encourage children to show love and support for each other and to consider each other’s well-being in their everyday actions. Consultant, international speaker and award-winning author Monique Gray Smith wrote You Hold Me Up to prompt a dialogue among young people, their care providers and educators about reconciliation and the importance of the connections children make with others. With vibrant illustrations from celebrated artist Danielle Daniel, this is a foundational book about building relationships, fostering empathy and encouraging respect between peers, starting with our littlest citizens.

The Shoe Boy

The Shoe Boy PDF

Author: Duncan McCue

Publisher: Purich Books

Published: 2020-04-02

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 0774880597

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At the age of seventeen, an Anishinabe boy who was raised in the south joined a James Bay Cree family in a one-room hunting cabin in the isolated wilderness of northern Quebec. Reflecting on his search for his own personal identity, that kid – Duncan McCue – takes us on an evocative exploration of the teenage years and the culture shock he experienced moving to the unfamiliar North. The result is a contemplative, honest, and unexpected coming-of-age memoir set in the context of the Cree struggle to protect their way of life, after massive hydro-electric projects forever altered the landscape they know as Eeyou Istchee.

Portnoy's Complaint

Portnoy's Complaint PDF

Author: Philip Roth

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1994-09-20

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0679756450

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The groundbreaking novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral that originally propelled its author to literary stardom: told in a continuous monologue from patient to psychoanalyst, this masterpiece draws us into the turbulent mind of one lust-ridden young Jewish bachelor named Alexander Portnoy. "Deliciously funny...absurd and exuberant, wild and uproarious...a brilliantly vivid reading experience." —The New York Times Book Review "Touching as well as hilariously lewd.... Roth is vibrantly talented." —New York Review of Books Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient's "morality," however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retribution, particularly in the form of castration.' (Spielvogel, O. "The Puzzled Penis," Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse, Vol. XXIV, p. 909.) It is believed by Spielvogel that many of the symptoms can be traced to the bonds obtaining in the mother-child relationship.

Stripy the Zebra Foal

Stripy the Zebra Foal PDF

Author: Pippa Funnell

Publisher: Orion Children's Books

Published: 2012-01-05

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13: 1444004344

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Meet Tilly Redbrow, who doesn't just love horses - she lives, breathes and dreams them too! Follow Tilly's adventures as she learns to ride and care for the horses at Silver Shoe Farm, and develops her special gift, with a little help from her favourite horse, Magic Spirit. When Tilly wins a horse safari trip to Africa, she thinks she's found her perfect holiday. And when she helps rescue abandoned zebra foal, Stripy, she knows that it's a trip she'll remember forever. For every girl who has ever longed for a pony of her own, these delightful, warm and engaging stories are packed with Pippa Funnell's expert advice on everything you ever wanted to know about horses.