In this story told mainly with words that begin with the letters “a,” “b,” and “d,” Bashful Bob, abandoned and raised by dogs, meets Doleful Dorinda, who deals with dirty dishes, and the two become fast friends and eventually heroes.
Canada
Materials from Canada
Ice Time : The Story Of Hockey
Based on the CBC television series of hockey: People’s history
Simon Says : Seasons
Simon and the wind, Simon and the snowflakes, Simon welcomes spring and Simon in summer.
Megiddo’s Shadow
After the death of his beloved older brother hector in World War I, sixteen-year-old Edward leaves the family farm in Canada to enlist in Hector’s battalion, where he attempts to come to terms with what has happened.
Invisible Ink
Olivier, 12-year-old boy, is helping his very odd step-step-stepgramma with her yard sale. When some mysterious customers show up, along with a troublesome wind, Olivier flees the scene, ends up in the Dark Woods. Olivier meets strange creatures in the woods.
Almost Eden
Growing up in Mennonite community on the Canadian prairie in the late 1960s, Elsie, 12, blames herself when Mom is once again hospitalized for depression. Elsie has conversations with God, struggles to overcome guilt, and shares her honest desire to prove herself. Almost Eden is a beautiful portrait of a town, a family, and a young woman willing to challenge the things that don’t make sense to her, and to fix the things that don’t seem right.
Directed By Kaspar Snit
Fresh from their victory over the Kaspar Snit, who was last seen trying to steal the fountains of Rome in The Fortress of Kaspar Snit, the Blande family have earned a rest.
Kanada
During World War II, life for Jutka, a Hungarian Jew and her family are transported to Auschwitz, where her mother and grandmother perish. Dreams of Canada, inspired by a book from a Canadian relative, sustain her. After the liberation, Jutka falls in love with Sandor, who dreams of relocating to Israel.
Ryan and Jimmy: And the Well In Africa that Brought Them Together
In Agweo, Uganda, villagers were used to walking a long way every day in search of water. It costs a lot of money to build a well in Africa. The 6-year-old, Ryan Hreljac, kept doing chores around his parents’ house, even after he learned it could take him years to earn enough money to build one. Then a friend of the family wrote an article in the local newspaper about Ryan’s wish to build a well in Africa to supply people with clean water. After Ryan’s well was built, a young orphan named Akana longed for a chance to thank Ryan in person for this gift of life-clean water.
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O Canada
An artist celebrates the beautiful and varied Canadian landscape in these impressionistic descriptions and full-color paintings of Canada’s provinces and territories, from Newfoundland to the Northwest Territories.