Elizabeth MacLeod
Autor von Alexander Graham Bell: An Inventive Life
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Elizabeth MacLeod is a prolific author of nonfiction. A masterful researcher and excellent storyteller, she is the recipient of many awards for books such as Bones Never Lie: How Forensics Helps Solve History's Mysteries and Top Dogs: True Stories of Canines That Made History. Elizabeth lives in mehr anzeigen Toronto, Ontario. weniger anzeigen
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Marie Curie: A Brilliant Life (Snapshots: Images of People and Places in History) (2004) 202 Exemplare
Weird Stuff You Didn't Know About Food (Everything But The Kitchen Sink) (2008) — Autor — 146 Exemplare
A History of Just About Everything: 180 Events, People and Inventions That Changed the World (2013) 28 Exemplare
Meet Terry Fox (Scholastic Canada Biography) Hardcover – Picture Book, Aug. 1 2020 (2020) 24 Exemplare
The Phone Book: Instant Communication From Smoke Signals to Satellites and Beyond ? (1995) 12 Exemplare
Canada at War 3 Exemplare
Biographie en images : Voici Thérèse Casgrain 2 Exemplare
Koalas 2 Exemplare
Nature's Children 1 Exemplar
getting to know nature's creatures: lions 1 Exemplar
Albert Einstein 1 Exemplar
Getting to know...nature's children: lions 1 Exemplar
Le téléphone 1 Exemplar
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What Did Dinosaurs Eat?: And Other Things You Want… von Elizabeth MacLeod
Dinosaurs
2 in 1 Book - Part of a multi volume series
Power in the Blood
Review of the Scholastic Canada Ltd. hardcover edition (May 2, 2023).
I don't usually review picture books, but I've enjoyed Buffy Sainte-Marie in concert many times and recently saw the premiere of the documentary about her life Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On (2022) directed by Madison Thomas in September 2022 at TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival).
Sidenote: Buffy Sainte-Marie came to the screening we went to and sat in the first row of the risers with a huge bag of popcorn 🍿 which she proceeded to share with the people next to her and with the people in the 2nd row directly behind her, before the movie started. We were in the 3rd row and could not reach far enough to grab any for ourselves 😋. After the film ended to a roaring standing ovation, she leapt up and participated in an enthusiastic Q&A session.
Having such a recent biographical overview via that excellent film, I can also say that the picture book Meet Buffy Sainte-Marie does an excellent job in portraying that life for its 6-10 years old targeted audience. But hey! this 70-year-old Buffy Sainte-Marie fan enjoyed it just as much.
A sample 2-page panel from 'Meet Buffy Sainte-Marie' portraying her early career of singing in folk clubs and coffee houses. Image sourced from Scholastic Canada.
In its short 32 pages, the book covers all the major life and career highlights. It does include some of the more depressing issues such as racism and discrimination, first mentioned through the fact that as a young child she was removed from her Piapot Cree Nation birth parents in the Sixties Scoop (which actually began much earlier than the 1960s) in the Indigenous Oppression led by the Canadian government. There is also her blacklisting by American radio stations in the 1970s due to her anti-Vietnam War stance. Some of these difficult issues may have to be explained to curious and observant youngsters, so teachers and parents should also know the meaning of the red dress that Buffy hangs on stage during concerts and which is seen in some of the illustrations here, but without an explanation.
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Scholastic Canada provides a School Class Discussion Guide for Meet Buffy Sainte-Marie which you can read here (the link opens a pdf file).
Meet Buffy Sainte-Marie is part of the Scholastic Canada Biography series of picture books on a variety of Canadian personalities, not necessarily just celebrities but gamechangers in various ways. You can see a selection of the books at Scholastic Canada.… (mehr)
Review of the Scholastic Canada Ltd. hardcover edition (May 2, 2023).
I don't usually review picture books, but I've enjoyed Buffy Sainte-Marie in concert many times and recently saw the premiere of the documentary about her life Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On (2022) directed by Madison Thomas in September 2022 at TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival).
Sidenote: Buffy Sainte-Marie came to the screening we went to and sat in the first row of the risers with a huge bag of popcorn 🍿 which she proceeded to share with the people next to her and with the people in the 2nd row directly behind her, before the movie started. We were in the 3rd row and could not reach far enough to grab any for ourselves 😋. After the film ended to a roaring standing ovation, she leapt up and participated in an enthusiastic Q&A session.
Having such a recent biographical overview via that excellent film, I can also say that the picture book Meet Buffy Sainte-Marie does an excellent job in portraying that life for its 6-10 years old targeted audience. But hey! this 70-year-old Buffy Sainte-Marie fan enjoyed it just as much.
A sample 2-page panel from 'Meet Buffy Sainte-Marie' portraying her early career of singing in folk clubs and coffee houses. Image sourced from Scholastic Canada.
In its short 32 pages, the book covers all the major life and career highlights. It does include some of the more depressing issues such as racism and discrimination, first mentioned through the fact that as a young child she was removed from her Piapot Cree Nation birth parents in the Sixties Scoop (which actually began much earlier than the 1960s) in the Indigenous Oppression led by the Canadian government. There is also her blacklisting by American radio stations in the 1970s due to her anti-Vietnam War stance. Some of these difficult issues may have to be explained to curious and observant youngsters, so teachers and parents should also know the meaning of the red dress that Buffy hangs on stage during concerts and which is seen in some of the illustrations here, but without an explanation.
Trivia and Links
Scholastic Canada provides a School Class Discussion Guide for Meet Buffy Sainte-Marie which you can read here (the link opens a pdf file).
Meet Buffy Sainte-Marie is part of the Scholastic Canada Biography series of picture books on a variety of Canadian personalities, not necessarily just celebrities but gamechangers in various ways. You can see a selection of the books at Scholastic Canada.… (mehr)
Note: I received a digital review copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley.
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