Canadian Childrens Literature.ppt

1、Canadian Childrens Literature,A Genre Approach to Reading Your Way Through Canada For more information, contact Betsy ArntzenOffice of Canadian Studies Outreach . Canadian-American Center University of Maine 154 College Ave. Orono, ME 04473 207.581.4225 /ca

2、nam/teachingcanada.htm March 2006,/canam/teachingcanada.htm,2,Read Your Way Through Canada: PURPOSE,To find answers to these questions: Does Canadian childrens fiction tell the stories of Canadian history, geography, and culture? Can we get a sense of place through Canadian child

3、rens literature? Can we get an overview of Canadian history through Canadian childrens literature? Can we learn about Canadian cultures by reading Canadian childrens literature?,/canam/teachingcanada.htm,3,Read Your Way Through Canada: SLIDES,These slides present a selection of c

4、urrently available titles as of March 2006Note: There are MANY more excellent titles available than are presented here categorized by region: Atlantic, Central, Prairies, West, North grouped by genres of childrens literature Not covered: non-fiction / informational literature, and biography Audience

5、: We created this presentation to introduce a wide variety of Canadian Childrens Literature to U.S. public library Childrens Librarians, and to K-12 School Librarians and Teacher-Librarians.,/canam/teachingcanada.htm,4,Read Your Way Through Canada: ELEMENTS,Canadian Childrens aut

6、hors Book titles and brief summaries Identification as Picture Book or Chapter Book Author websites Publisher websites Resources,/canam/teachingcanada.htm,5,Genres of Childrens Literature,Traditional - born of oral tradition, passed orally from generation to generation Poetry - r

7、anges from poetry that rhymes to free verse Fantasy - rooted in traditional literature, but has an identifiable author, and Science Fiction - speculates on what might happen in the future Contemporary Realistic Fiction deals with living today. Includes humorous stories, detective and mystery stories

8、, school stories, adventure stories, survival stories, sports stories, animals fiction Historical Fiction realistic fiction set in the past Biography focuses on individuals (not covered here) Anthology collection of writings Non-Fiction, Informational accurate, authentic, up-to-date (not covered her

9、e),/canam/teachingcanada.htm,6,Literary Regions of Canada,Atlantic Newfoundland illus. by Ian WallaceA rhyming story that refers back to the authors childhood in Newfoundland, when the Mummers, would go from door to door, entering houses and dancing and carousing with the people

10、at Christmas time. Newfoundland is one of two places in North America where Mummering is still done. www.ian-,Picture Books,/canam/teachingcanada.htm,9,Genre: Contemporary Realistic,Catherine Simpson Lives in Lewisporte, Newfoundland There are No Polar Bears HereYoung girl sees a

11、 white bear and no one believes her A Viking ShipBoy finds a magic Viking ship toy which allows time travel The Turnip Top PonyWho or what is eating out of everyones garden? Sailor: The Hangashore Newfoundland DogHow can a Newfoundland Dog not like the water? ,Picture Books,/cana

12、m/teachingcanada.htm,10,Genre: Contemporary Realistic,The Money Pit By Eric Walters What starts to happen as soon as Sam sets foot on Oak Island to visit his grandfather is more exciting than he could have hoped for, more surprising than the magic tricks he spends hours perfecting. Draws on the real

13、-life history of the mysterious Money Pit on Nova Scotias Oak Island, ,Chapter Book,/canam/teachingcanada.htm,11,Genre: Historical Fiction,Hand of Robin Squires By Joan Clark For over two hundred years, people have been searching Oak Island, just off the coast of Nova Scotia, for

14、 elusive treasure buried there. Underground tunnels discovered on the island have never yielded their secrets. In The Hand of Robin Squires, Joan Clark weaves fact and fiction in the tale of an English boy at the centre of the mystery. When his father dies in 1703, Robin Squires is the only one who

15、can help his seafaring uncle build the elaborate subterranean complex that has since tantalized and mystified treasure seekers for two centuries.,Chapter Book,/canam/teachingcanada.htm,12,Genre: Historical Fiction,Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne Shirley Series; “Anne of the red hair” A

16、nne of Green Gables (1908) Orphan is adopted by a brother and sister on PEI Anne of Avonlea (1909) Anne of Green Gables becomes a school teacher Anne of the Island (1915) Now 18, she heads to Redmond College Anne of Windy Poplars (1936) After college she accepts a job as high school principal Annes

17、House of Dreams (1917) Anne marries Dr. Gilbert Blythe, her childhood beau Anne of Ingleside (1939) Anne is mother of five with one on the way Rainbow Valley (1919) Annes children are featured as they help their neighbors Rilla of Ingleside (1921) Set in WW! focusing on youngest daughter, Rilla http

18、:/www.lmmontgomery.ca,Chapter Books,/canam/teachingcanada.htm,13,Genre: Historical Fiction,Sharon McKay Charlie WilcoxIts 1916, and Charlie Wilcox, a Newfoundlander, is interested in one thing only: going to sea, just like his father and uncles. Hell make his family proud. His pa

19、rents have different plans for him, however: they want him to go to university.Humiliated, Charlie sets out to prove he can measure up to the men in his family, and stows away on a sealing ship. Its only when they are far out to sea, and he is discovered, that he realizes hes on a troopship bound fo

20、r France! Charlie Wilcoxs Great War The year is 1918. Charlie Wilcox, now 17 years old, tall, broad and mature beyond his years, returns home to Brigus, Newfoundland. He is a man now, his childhood left behind on the battlefields of France and Belgium. And he is burdened by a secret, one he fears wi

21、ll inflict terrible grief on the village and people he loves.,Chapter Books,/canam/teachingcanada.htm,14,Genre: Historical Fiction,Eric Walters Hydrofoil MysteryIts 1915 and 15-year-old William is a bit of a troublemaker. But when his concerned mother sends him to spend the summe

22、r with Alexander Graham Bell in Nova Scotia, he finds life isnt as boring as he once believed. RunIn 1976, a teenage delinquent, Winston MacDonald, is sent to Nova Scotia to be with his father after being suspended from school. Mr. MacDonald, a newspaper reporter, is working on a story about a young

23、 man Terry Fox who is running across Canada to raise money for cancer research. ,Chapter Books,/canam/teachingcanada.htm,15,REGION: Central Canada,Ontario Quebec,/canam/teachingcanada.htm,16,Genre: Traditional,The Nanabosho Series By Joe McLellan and Matrine M

24、cLellan 9 stories based on Ojibway legends created to bring Aboriginal stories to Aboriginal children. Nanabosho is the teacher and protector of the Anishinabe people These are stories with a story, as an elder tells a traditional story to a contemporary child. The story features Nanabosho, and they

25、 show us the relationship between people and nature. “Nanaboshos capable of great things. Hes part spirit, part Manitou, part man, and he was sent to teach the people. Early on, he found out that you cant tell people anything. They dont listen. You cant tell them to do something, and you cant tell t

26、hem not to do something, and so he thought, If I act real stupid, theyll see that and laugh at it, and theyll remember not to act like that. And if I do the wrong thing, theyll figure it out. If I just do the right thing, theyll just say, I cant do that, but you, Nanabosho, you can do because youre

27、a spirit. What Nanabosho does then is take all of the silly stupid things we do and magnifies them and lays them out there for us to look at”, says author Joe McLellan. www.pemmican.mb.ca/ http:/www.joemclellan.ca/,Picture Books,/canam/teachingcanada.htm,17,Genre: Historical Fict

28、ion,Roch Carrier Stories describe his life growing up in 1940s-50s in rural, francophone Quebec Picture booksThe Hockey SweaterThe Boxing ChampionThe Basketball PlayerThe Longest Home RunA Happy New Years Day Short storiesHockey Sweater and Other StoriesPrayers of a Very Wise Child,http:/www.umaine.

29、edu/canam/teachingcanada.htm,18,Genre: Contemporary Realistic,Brian Robeson Series By Gary Paulsen, American author writing about northern Ontario Hatchet Brian survives a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness with a hatchet as his only tool. Brians Winter - In Hatchet, he was rescued. Brians Winte

30、r begins where Hatchet might have ended: Brian is not rescued, but must build on his survival skills to face his deadliest enemy-a northern winter. Brians Return Hes rescued, but now that hes back in civilization, he cant find a way to make sense of high school life. The River - Now the government w

31、ants him to do it again-to go back into the wilderness so they can learn the survival techniques that kept Brian alive. Brians Hunt Hes back in the wilderness where he prefers being on his own. An injured dog appears and with a terrible, growing sense of unease, he sets out to learn what happened.,C

32、hapter Books,/canam/teachingcanada.htm,19,Genre: Contemporary Realistic,Gita Seriesby Rachna Gilmore, Ontario author A young-reader picture book series featuring a girl who immigrates from India, becomes homesick, adjusts and makes friends, and then faces moving back to India. Li

33、ghts for Gita Roses for Gita A Gift for Gita www.secondstorypress.on.ca http:/www.rachnagilmore.ca/,Picture Books,/canam/teachingcanada.htm,20,Genre: Contemporary Realistic,The Road to Chlifa By Michele Marineau A Lebanese teenager, Karim, escapes war-torn Beirut, travels a dange

34、rous route over the mountains to Chlifa, and then on to Montreal and a new life. But his new life is not without difficulty he encounters contempt and racism at high school.,Chapter Book,/canam/teachingcanada.htm,21,Genre: Historical Fiction,Underground to Canada By Barbara Smuck

35、er Taken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has left is the dream of freedom. Every day that she spends huddled in the traders cart traveling south, or working on the brutal new plantation, she thinks about the land where it is possible to be free, a land she and her friend

36、 Liza may reach some day.,Chapter Book,/canam/teachingcanada.htm,22,Genres: Historical Fiction,The Last Safe House By Barbara Greenwood A blend of fact and fiction, designed to be a story of historical fiction paired with historical fact, this book also has hands-on extension act

37、ivities. Slave life, the movement to abolish slavery, and elements of the underground railroad are seen through the eyes of two young girls.,/canam/teachingcanada.htm,23,Genre: Historical Fiction,Brian Doyle Angel SquareA budding young detective named Tommy, confronts racial prej

38、udice in Ottawa after the Second World War. Boy OBoySummer 1945, Martin OBoy lives with his family in Lowertown Ottawa, and tries (unsuccessfully) to steer clear of the head of the boys choir. Easy AvenueAn orphan in the 1950s, Hubbo ODriscoll is torn between loyalty to his poor but fun friends and

39、family and the shallow but rich kids at his Ottawa high school. Covered BridgeCovered Bridge pits earnest Hubbo ODriscoll against two determined, cynical land developers Mary Ann AliceMary and her teacher investigate a project to dam up the Gatineau River in 1926 Uncle RonaldIn 1895, to escape his v

40、iolent father, Mickey is sent to stay with his Uncle Ronald,Chapter Books,/canam/teachingcanada.htm,24,REGION: Prairie Provinces,Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba,/canam/teachingcanada.htm,25,Genre: Historical Fiction,Josepha: A Prairie Boys Story By Jim McGugan S

41、tory of immigrant boy learning English in school with the small children, and having to choose between going to work or staying in school. A young boy learns the news that his friend Josepha will soon be leaving school, alienated because no one speaks his language. What can the boy do to show that h

42、is friendship with Josepha has meant much to him?,Picture Book,/canam/teachingcanada.htm,26,Genre: Poetry,If Youre Not from the Prairie By David Bouchard Poem with the premise that if youre not from the prairie you cant understand the wind, the cold, the grasses. However, even th

43、ough we might not know the prairie, we all do know the sun.,Picture Book,/canam/teachingcanada.htm,27,Genre: Contemporary Realistic,William Kurelek A Prairie Boys WinterFollows William and his family through a winter on their farm in Alberta A Prairie Boys SummerSummer on the pra

44、iries during the Depression was not a vacation from school; it was hard work. A Northern NativityA young boy imagines the nativity could have occurred anywhere and to any racial group.,Picture Books,/canam/teachingcanada.htm,28,Genre: Contemporary Realistic,Jo Bannatyne-Cugnet A

45、Prairie AlphabetOn each page is a single sentence consisting of words that begin with the featured letter, describing a scenario: We auction our Aberdeen Angus at Agribition; A mouse munches a meal of millet by moonlight. A Prairie YearCaptures the rural lifestyle shared by people in Saskatchewan an

46、d Alberta, providing a month-by-month anecdotal record of life on the plains, accompanied by a series of full-page paintings. Heartland SamplerUsing the frame of a sampler quilt, it takes a unique look at the landscape, customs, history, traditions, and peoples of the Prairies.,Picture Books,http:/w

47、/canam/teachingcanada.htm,29,Genre: Contemporary Realistic,The Moccasin Goalie By William Roy Brownridge Fictional story of friends who didnt make the hockey team but really want to play hockey. Based on the true life of the author as a child. He physically couldnt wear skates, but play

48、ed goalie on winning hockey teams.,Picture Book,/canam/teachingcanada.htm,30,Genre: Contemporary Realistic,Farley Mowat The Dog Who Wouldnt BeThis is the story about a dog and his boy. The boy was the author and the dog was Mutt. Clearly, Mutt believed that he could do better tha

49、n just be a dog. Owls in the FamilyA story of a young boys pet menagerie which includes crows, magpies, gophers and a dog growing out of control with the addition of two cantankerous pet owls, Wol and Weeps.,Chapter Books,/canam/teachingcanada.htm,31,Genre: Contemporary Realistic

50、,Northern Exposures By Eric Walters Kevin Spreekmeester has just won a photography contest he doesnt remember entering. The prize is a five-day trip to Churchill, Manitoba, to photograph polar bears with a renowned wildlife photographer. It all sounds pretty good - its a chance for Kevin to escape h

51、is controlling parents and the tedium of school. ,Chapter Book,/canam/teachingcanada.htm,32,REGION: West,British Columbia,/canam/teachingcanada.htm,33,Genre: Contemporary Realistic,Ann Blades Mary of Mile 18 was her first book. She wrote to give her students s

52、omething to read about themselves. Mile 18 is now named Buick, BC. Mary of Mile 18Mary finds a wolf pup but is forbidden to keep it as a pet, until it proves its worth on the family farm . A Boy of TacheCharlie, a boy of the Indian reserve of Tache in northern British Columbia, joins his grandparent

53、s for the annual spring beaver hunt. But theyre not at the camp long when Za becomes ill and Charlie must go alone to get help. This is a simple, realistic story of how a native people continues traditional ways. A Salmon for Simon illustratorSimon has been trying all summer to catch a salmon. But w

54、hen he gets his chance, Simon no longer wants to keep it-its too strong and beautiful!,Picture Books,/canam/teachingcanada.htm,34,Genre: Contemporary Realistic,Waiting for the Whales By Sheryl McFarlane A man teaches his grand-daughter how to identify animals, plants, and how to

55、garden, but most of all, when to watch for the annual return of the Orca whales. A seasons of life story.,Picture Book,/canam/teachingcanada.htm,35,Genre: Fantasy,Paul Yee Grew up in Vancouvers Chinatown. Ghost TrainExtreme poverty forces the father to leave his family behind in

56、South China to take a dangerous railroad construction job in BC. After 2 years of sending his pay home, Ba asks that Choon-yi join him, but when she arrives in Vancouver she learns that her father has died in a landslide. Her plans to return to China come to an end, when her father appears in a drea

57、m. Roses Sing on New SnowWhile Maylin does the cooking for her familys Chinatown restaurant, her greedy father and two fat brothers take all the credit. When her specially prepared dish, Roses Sing on New Snow, is served to the visiting governor of South China, he asks the brothers to show him how i

58、t was made. www.paulyee.ca,Picture Books,/canam/teachingcanada.htm,36,Genre: Traditional,Paul Yee Grew up in Vancouvers Chinatown. Tales from Gold MountainEight original stories give readers a sense of the hardships faced by the first Chinese-Canadians. In Spirits of the Railway,

59、 a young man appeases the ghosts of dead railroad workers who were never properly buried. In Forbidden Fruit, a fathers prejudice keeps his daughter from marrying her beloved. Dramatic illustrations accompany the stories. The brief, pithy tales strikingly reflect traditional Chinese beliefs and customs in New World circumstances. Dead Mans Gold and Other StoriesExplores 140 years of the history of Chinese immigrants to Canada through tales with a subtle sense of the supernatural. They cre