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Brenda Silsbe
Brenda Silsbe (born 1953) is a Canadian children's writer. Background Brenda Silsbe (née Taft) was born October 10, 1953 in Terrace, British Columbia, Canada. In 1977 she received a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of British Columbia and returned to Terrace to teach primary school. Silsbe had her first work of children's fiction published in 1989 by Annick Press. Published works * ''The Bears We Know (Annikin),'' illustrations by Scot Ritchie Scot Ritchie is a Canadian author and illustrator. He specializes in children's literature and has over 65 books published. He also illustrates for the advertising, editorial and educational markets. His work can be found in publications including ... ( Annick Press, 1989) * ''Just One More Colour,'' illustrations by Shawn Steffler ( Annick Press, 1991) (bound) (pbk.) * ''Winning the Girl of the Sea,'' illustrations by Alice Priestley ( Annick Press, 1994) (trade) (lib. bdg.) * ''The Watcher,'' illustrations by Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Terrace, British Columbia
Terrace is a city located near the Skeena River in British Columbia, Canada. The community is the regional retail and service hub for the northwestern portion of British Columbia. With a current population of over 12,000 within municipal boundaries, the city services surrounding communities as well bringing the Greater Terrace Area population to over 18,000 residents. The Kitselas and Kitsumkalum people, tribes of the Tsimshian Nation, have lived in the Terrace area for thousands of years. The individual Indigenous communities neighbour the city with Kitselas to the east and Kitsumkalum to the west. Terrace was originally called Littleton, but this name was rejected by postal authorities because of possible confusion with Lyttleton, a town in New Brunswick. The new name is descriptive of the manner in which the land rises from the river. As northwest British Columbia's main services and transportation hub, Terrace is intersected by the Canadian National Railway as well as Highway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadians
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and Multiculturalism, multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World Immigration to Canada, immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of New France, French and then the much larger British colonization of the Americas, British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university, public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks among the top three universities in Canada. With an annual research budget of $759million, UBC funds over 8,000 projects a year. The Vancouver campus is situated adjacent to the University Endowment Lands located about west of downtown Vancouver. UBC is home to TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory for Particle physics, particle and nuclear physics, which houses the world's largest cyclotron. In addition to the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and Stuart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute, UBC and the Max Planck Society collectively established the first Max Planck Institute in North America, specializing in quantum materials. One of the largest research libraries in Canada, the UBC Library system has over 9.9million volumes among it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children's Fiction
Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader. Children's literature can be traced to traditional stories like fairy tales, that have only been identified as children's literature in the eighteenth century, and songs, part of a wider oral tradition, that adults shared with children before publishing existed. The development of early children's literature, before printing was invented, is difficult to trace. Even after printing became widespread, many classic "children's" tales were originally created for adults and later adapted for a younger audience. Since the fifteenth century much literature has been aimed specifically at children, often with a moral or religious message. Children's literature has been shaped by religious sources, like Puritan traditions, or by more philosophical and scientifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annick Press
Annick Press is a Canadian book publishing company that was founded in Toronto, Ontario in 1975 by Anne Millyard and Rick Wilks. Rick Wilks became the sole owner in 2000. A second editorial office was opened in Vancouver by Colleen MacMillan in 1999. Annick Press publishes approximately thirty books of fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults per year. Annick Press is a member of the Association of Canadian Publishers, the Organization of Book Publishers of Ontario, and IBBY Canada. It was recently made a part of the Canadian government's "Read Up On It" programme through Library and Archives Canada. Notable authors * Priscilla Galloway, children's book author, winner of the Bologna Ragazzi award in 2000 *K.V. Johansen, winner of the Ann Connor Brimer Award *Robert Munsch, a member of the Order of Canada and "Canada's best-selling author," who "sells more books than any other Canadian author every year". *Bill Richardson, winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scot Ritchie
Scot Ritchie is a Canadian author and illustrator. He specializes in children's literature and has over 65 books published. He also illustrates for the advertising, editorial and educational markets. His work can be found in publications including ''Wall St. Journal,'' ''Newsweek,'' ''Chicago Tribune,'' and ''New York Magazine.'' His books have been translated into many languages including Korean, Chinese, Dutch, French, Arabic, Russian and Polish. Awards and honours * Children's Science Picture Book Award, AAAS/Subaru SB+F Prize, Finalist 2020 * Green Earth Book Award, The Nature Generation, Long-list 2020 * Skipping Stones Honour List, Skipping Stones Magazine, Winner * Best Books for Kids + Teens, Starred Selection, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Winner 2019 * Best Children's Books of the Year, Bank Street College, Listed 2018 * Best Books for Kids and Teens, The Canadian Children's Book Centre, Winner 2018 * Judge for a number of awards including the Governor General's award i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Priestley
Alice Priestley (born 1962) is a children's writer and illustrator. She has illustrated or written twelve books, published by Annick Press, Key Porter Books, and Second Story Press. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, she studied fine art and English at the University of Toronto. Priestley lives in Toronto with her family. Works Illustrator *''Jessica and the Lost Stories'', by Jenny Nelson (1992) *''Out on the Ice in the Middle of the Bay'', by Peter Cumming (1993) *''Winning the Girl of the Sea'', by Brenda Silsbe (1994) *''Lights for Gita'', by Rachna Gilmore (1994) *''The Watcher'', by Brenda Silsbe (1995) *''Clouds on the Mountain'', by Emilie Smith-Ayala (1996) *''Roses for Gita'', by Rachna Gilmore (1996) *''A Gift for Gita'', by Rachna Gilmore Rachna Gilmore (11 October 1953 – 1 February 2021) was a Canadian children's writer. Her picture book ''A Screaming Kind of Day'' won the 1999 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature. Life and career Born in Indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 Births
Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugoslavia. ** The CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon. * January 15 – Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying. * January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into ''I Love Lucy'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record has yet to be broken. * January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is sworn in as the 34th President of the United States. * January 24 ** Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya kill the Ruck family (father, mother, and six-year-old son). ** Leader of East Germany Walter Ulbricht announces that agriculture will be col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Children's Writers
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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People From Terrace, British Columbia
A person (plural, : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal obligation, legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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