The books nominated for the Ontario Library Association’s Forest of Reading programs were announced this past Monday. Each year, the nominations are greeted with a shiver of excitement by both students and their teachers.
Yesterday afternoon, after having wiggled my library budget around, and checked pockets for any loose change, I placed the [...]
When Allashua announces to her parents that she is going to go fishing on the sea ice, they tell her that the Qallupilliut come up from their homes at the bottom of the sea and take children who go out onto the sea ice without their parents. They tell her to go ice fishing on [...]
On Monday, October 27th, Andy Stanton paid a visit to the school. Author of the Mr. Gum series and resident of London, Andy is in Toronto to take part in Harbourfront’s International Authors Series. We were fortunate to have Scooter Girl, a fun book and toy store for children, approach the school to arrange for [...]
Five year-old Kitaq awakens early, and eagerly awaits the arrival of Apa, his grandfather. He hopes that today Apa will take him fishing in the ice. When Apa comes, the young boy assures his grandfather that he is big enough to walk all the way to the fishing holes and all the way back, and [...]
A young girl named Tiktala wants to become a soapstone carver so that she can become rich and famous, but is told by a village elder that she must go in search of a spirit helper. Transformed into a harp seal, she meets Tulimak, a seal who hates humans, who has been chosen to help [...]
Set in the late 1950s in the community of Repulse Bay, Arctic Stories recounts three tales about Agatha, a young Inuit girl who lives on the cusp of change in the North. While her parents have lived a largely traditional Inuit lifestyle, Agatha experiences the changes that creeping governmental oversight bring.
In Agatha and the Ugly [...]
Last week, I held information meetings for three Book Clubs, the Boys’ Book Club, for boys in Grade 4, 5 and 6, the Girls’ Book Club, for girls in Grades 4, 5 and 6, and the Intermediate Book Club, for students in Grades 7 and 8.
The boys met at lunch on Monday. There was [...]
Addison Addley has to come up with a 3-minute speech for his Grade 5 public speaking contest. He’s thought of a really great idea for his speech, Things That Aren’t Really There, and both his mom and his best friend Sam, who’s brilliant, have been busy coming up with lots of good example for [...]
