Books & Media

A Red Bird Told Me Written and Illustrated by Joanna Malcolmsoftcover - 35 pagesThis is a delightful and inspiring book for kids and adults of any age! A must-have for every home.Using colourful birds, animals, plants and people, Gramma Ruby shares the life lessons she has learned from Red Bird to help others find the right path in life. Just...

Written by Art Gallery of Ontario, David Wistow, Kelly McKinleySoftcover, 48 pagesreprint Oct 1, 2019For ages 8-12 years oldIn the early twentieth century, a group of Toronto artists became friends. They shared a love of traveling and exploring Canada's landscape. Their paintings were very different from the art of the time, capturing not just how the landscape looked, but how...

Paddle to the SeaAuthor: Holling C. Hollingpaperback, 64 pagesdelightful images, colour and black and whiteOriginally written in 1941, this classic tale about a young Indian boy, carves a little canoe with a figure inside and names him Paddle-to-the-Sea. Paddle's journey, in text and pictures, through the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean provides an excellent geographic and historical picture of...

Paddle to the Sea - DVDNational Film Board of Canada, 1966Directed & Produced by Bill Mason27 minutes and 59 secondsBased on Holling C. Holling's book of the same name, Paddle to the Sea is Bill Mason's film adaptation of the classic tale of an Indian boy who sets out to carve a man and a canoe. Calling the man "Paddle...

The Group of Seven Colouring BookGroup of Seven coloring book features 22 works of art by the pioneering Canadian landscape painters. Coloring pages are blank on the back so they can be cut out and displayed. Click on the small picture to see an interior page.In this coloring book, you will find 22 paintings of lakes, forests, and mountains by...

The Sweater - DVDAuthor & Narrator - Roch CarrierNational Film Board, 198010 minutes, 21 secondsA Canadian children's classic!In this animated short, Roch Carrier recounts the most mortifying moment of his childhood. At a time when all his friends worshipped Maurice "Rocket" Richard and wore his number 9 Canadiens hockey jersey, the boy was mistakenly sent a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey...