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Quality Literature
The Gingerbread Guild selects works that emphasize humanitarian values and possess an international character.
The Guild supports literacy by animating interactive workshops and by donating books to those children living in difficult, fragile environments.
The Guild distributes new works by approved authors recognized for their creative talent and social engagement. The text and illustrations of these works cultivate a sense of wonderment in the reader, a prime source of creativity and learning.
Selection Criteria
Whatever the type of story favoured by the author, the work must be both rich and accessible and propose to the reader numerous occasions which nourish the imagination and enrich knowledge. The young reader should be made sensitive to images that inspire and that contain no form of sexism, racism or intolerance.
The Guild publishes within its quarterly bulletin The Gingerbread Slice
a column entitled «Gingerbread the bookworm».
The column recommends a number of carefully selected books chosen for their literary, educational and social qualities. They will please adult and child reading together or a child reading alone. They are rated on the basis of the child's reading maturity rather than his age.
Apprentice reader
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Caribou Song
Tomson Highway
Haper Collins 2001
Tomson Highway is an important aboriginal writer, in English and in Cree. It is the story of a family who lives in northern Manitoba. The two brothers have an adventure when they meet the caribou herd. This book is beautifully illustrated by Brian Deiner. Unnumbered; $19,95
The Five Chinese Brothers
Claire Huchet Bishop
Penguin Putnam Books, 1938
One brother can swallow the sea; the second brother has an iron neck; the third can stretch his legs indefinitely, the fourth cannot be burned; the fifth can hold his breath indefinitely. A real children's classic. $8.95
I love you like crazy cakes
By Rose Lewis
Little Brown Company, 2000
Rose Lewis tells the story of a white woman's adoption of a Chinese child. It is told with love and joy, and is beautifully illustrated in charming watercolors.
Unnumbered pages, $21.95
Madlenka
By Peter Sis
Publisher: Grounwood, 2000
It is the story of a little girl who lives in a multi-ethnic neighbourhood in New York City which is seen as a friendly village. $20.95
The Philharmonia Gets Dressed
Karba Kuskin
Harper Collins. 1982
This book is a favourite of musicians to give to young children.
Unnumbered pages 8.95$
Play Ball, Amelia Bedelis
Peggy Parish
Harper Collins, 1972
Amelia Bedelis is the loveable maid who takes everyting literally. Kids will hoot with laughter at her attempt to play baseball.
64 pages, $5.95
Why Noak Chose the ove
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Farran, Straus and Giroux. 1973
This vibrantly coloured picture book tells that the dove is a bird of peace that lives withou fighting.
Unnumbered pages 10.95$ |
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Bubblegum Delicious
By Dennis Lee
Publisher: Key Porter, 2000
It is a new book of poetry for children. The author continues to enchant children with his poetry. $19.95
The Children of China
Song Nan Zhang, author and illustrator
Tundra Books, 1995
The author now lives in Montreal, where exhibitions of his work were held. This beautifully illustrated book will appeal to children and adults alike.
32 pages, $19.95
Eat Your Words
Charlotte FoltyJones
Delacorte Press 1999
A fascinating look at the language of food. Have you ever wondered why we use the expression “to spill the beans?” There are many fascinating and funny stories about the language of food. 87 pages, $ 16.95
The Hockey Sweater
Roch Carrier
Illustrated by Sheldon Cohen
Tundra Books 1979
This story has been delighting hockey fans ever since it was first published. A young boy orders a Canadiens sweater, but to his horror he receives a Maple Leafs one. Unnumbered; $ 8.95
The Last Battle
C.S. Lewis
Harper Collins 1956
A story about Tirian, the last king of Narnia and the combat of a false Asian who is deceiving and enslaving his people. 211 pages, 11.95$
See you Later, Gladiator
By Jon Scieszka
Viking, 2001
The newest book in the Hilarious Time Warp series, takes intermediate readers back to Roman times. 87 pages, $21.95
Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin
L. Moss
Ahtneum 2000
This tells about the instruments of the orchestra.
Unnumbered pages 9.95$ |
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After the Wall
Jana Hensel
Public Affairs Publishers 2004
It is about the fall of the Berlin Wall and German unification from the point of vieu of teen-aged East German.
180 pages 33.95$
Ah, Music
Aliki
Harper Collins 2003
History of music.
48 pages 25.95$
Arthur: The Seeing Stone
By Kevin Crossley-Holland
Publisher: Orion, 2000
It is a very readable retelling of the Arthurian legend with a different twist.
224 pages, $24.95
The Code Book
Simon Singh
Delacorte Press 2001
This is a history of cryptography, the encoding and decoding of private informations adapted for young people. 263 pages, $24.95
Red Scarf Girl
Ji Li Jiang
Harper Collins, 1997
A memoir of the cultural revolution. It gives a child's view of a terrfying time in Chinese history. 285 pages, $23.50
Stowaway
By Karen Hesse
Margaret K. Mc Elderry Books, 2000
This book tells the story of an eleven year old butcher's apprentice from London who stows away on board the ship of Captain James Cook in 1768. 305 pages, $26.95
This Land
Kit Pearson
Penguin Books Canada 1999
Collection of short stories. There are two or three stories about each of the provinces and the north. The stories both entertain and evoke a sense of place. 317 pages; $16.95 |
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