by PRS-wordpress | Feb 26, 2011 | Books, Children's, Photo, Poetry
In 1986 Kids Can Press published an edition of Robert Service’s “The Cremation of Sam McGee” illustrated by painter Ted Harrison, who used his signature broad brushstrokes and unconventional choice of color to bring this gritty narrative poem to life. Evoking both the...
by PRS-wordpress | Feb 26, 2011 | Adventures, Books
‘We need London’s mythical wolf almost as much as we need the wildernesses of the world, for without such ghost-animals from the depths of the human subconscious we are alone with ourselves’ – from the introduction. This volume of the best of...
by PRS-wordpress | Feb 26, 2011 | Adventures, Books
Recently arrived in Calgary, Alberta, after a long, hard journey from Boston, sixteen-year-old Katherine Mary O’Fallon never imagined that she could lose her heart so easily – or so completely. Standing over six feet tall, with “eyes so blue you could swim in...
by PRS-wordpress | Feb 26, 2011 | Adventures, Books
Anne Hobbs is a prim and proper 19-year-old schoolteacher who yearns for adventure. She finds this and much more in a town with the unlikely name of Chicken, located deep in the Alaskan interior. It is 1927 and Chicken is a wild mining community flaming with gold...
by PRS-wordpress | Feb 20, 2011 | Books, Children's
It hasn’t rained in the forest for many weeks. And in the sunny clearing, everything is dry and scorched. Then, late one afternoon, a hot wind begins to blow and storm clouds gather. But instead of rain, lightning fills the sky and strikes a tall tree beside the...
by PRS-wordpress | Feb 20, 2011 | Books, Historical
A witty, brightly-written memoir of childhood in the Yukon, The Cinnamon Mine traces the adventures of the Porsild family from Denmark to Greenland, through Arctic Canada, and finally to remote Johnson’s Crossing , where they operated one of the first tourist...
