Tant que couleront les rivières
Roman jeunesse à partir de 9 ans entièrement illustré
texte de Larry Loyie
avec la participation de Constance Brissenden
illustrations de Heather D. Holmlund
En 1944, Larry Loyie, alors connu sous le nom de Lawrence, avait dix ans et vivait avec sa famille crie près de Slave Lake, dans le nord de l’Alberta (Canada). Tant que couleront les rivières s’inspire de son dernier été avec ses proches, avant son départ obligatoire pour le pensionnat indien. L’histoire d’un été qui se révèle plein d’aventures, de découvertes et de partage, la peinture d’un quotidien qui recrée la relation privilégiée avec la nature. Il faut profiter de la belle saison pour faire des réserves de nourriture pour l’hiver : cueillette, pêche et chasse, Lawrence a beaucoup à apprendre de ses aînés. Mais il y a certaines aventures qu’on n’ose imaginer, de celles qui vous méritent le nom d’Oskiniko, jeune homme en cri.
Le jardin
A picture book byFrance Adams
Illustrations by Serge Salvador
When Madame Charlotte suggests a vegetable garden for her class’s end-of-the-year project, all her pupils are enthused. And when Amani proposes offering the produce as a gift to an old lady he has just met sitting alone on the porch of her run-down house, everyone loves the idea. Over the months, as the garden grows and thrives, the house looks fresher and fresher and neighbourhood togetherness, much like the friendship between the old lady and Amani, blossoms.
La guerre du cochon
A historical account
By Nadine Mackenzie
History has shown us that wars have been started for a myriad of different reasons. And in 1859 an American settler’s assassination of a somewhat gluttonous British pig was all it took to set off a conflict between the two countries. It then became necessary to settle the thorny issue of just who owned the tiny island of San Juan off Vancouver Island in British Columbia, an issue that was left hazy in the Oregon Treaty of 1846 determining the Canadian-American border for the western half of the continent.
Finutilité
An essay by Daniel Lavoie
Published November 16, 2011
Book fairs, signings and events
La finutilité m’habite…
Pourquoi ceci me diras-tu?
Pour la poésie du futile, la beauté de l’éphémère…
Pour la beauté infinie de la tristesse.
Pour moi pour toi qui sommes à la fois rien, à la fois tout.
With Finutilité, from the infinite to the futile and the fleeting, Daniel Lavoie pens his first literary work. This collection contains moments of perception, reflections on contradictions along with revelations about life. Whether he is being provocative or appeasing, Daniel Lavoie says it with passion, humour and sensitivity.
In Finutilité, Daniel Lavoie offers texts full of textures and shifting images he gathered up through his peregrinations. Serious and humorous matters are juxtaposed, sugar is blended in with salt, various shades of red are intertwined, a deep sense of irony is grafted onto a lovely lightness of being. It is a nod to the tragic side of modern life as well as to its more playful side. The book seeks to be provocative at times, appeasing at others. There are moments of perception, of reflections on the most troubling aspects of life, on its contradictions as well as its revelations. It is a book that was written by someone who has spent a great deal of time observing, who feels things deeply and shares it with humour and le mot juste.
photo © Valérie Paquette
Le chemin de fer
Texte de Robert Livesey,
Illustrations de A.G. Smith
Avant l’arrivée du chemin de fer, le Canada était un immense territoire accidenté ne comptant qu’une faible densité de population largement disséminée. Au fur et à mesure de la mise en place des voies ferrées entre l’Atlantique et le Pacifique, des villes fleurissent. Les gares deviennent des centres d’activité et de communication. Des emplois se créent, les entreprises se multiplient et, pour la première fois, les Canadiens se sentent unis. La création du Dominion du Canada en 1867 put se faire, en grande partie, grà cce au chemin de fer.
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Corbeau vole la lumière
Recueil de mythes haïdas
By Bill Reid et Robert Bringhurst
Illustrations by Bill Reid
Introduction by Claude Lévi-Strauss
“Before there was anything, before the great flood had covered the earth and receded, before the animals walked the earth or the trees covered the land or the birds flew between the trees, even before the fish and the whales and seals swam in the sea, an old man lived in a house on the bank of a river with his only child, a daughter. Whether she was as beautiful as hemlock fronds against the spring sky at sunrise or as ugly as a sea slug doesn’t really matter very much to this story, which takes place mainly in the dark.”
