Canadian Genre
Books in the Canadian genre:
Ernest Thompson Seton’s America (1954)
An anthology of the writings of Ernest Thompson Seton, British-Canadian-American naturalist and founder of the Boy Scouts of America.
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Julia M. Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Silver Chief’s Revenge (1954)
Author(s):
Jack O’Brien
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Cartier Sails the St. Lawrence (1956)
Author(s):
Esther Averill
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The Best of Leacock (1957)
Selections from 32 books. Something between the amiable nonsense of English humor and the hard-cutting wit and satire of American humor. Edited and introduced by J.B. Priestley.
Author(s):
Stephen Leacock
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Bodley Head Leacock (1957)
Author(s):
Stephen Leacock
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Warmhearted Polar Bear (1957)
Whitey is a polar bear who is tamed by a ship’s crew and doesn’t want to go back to the rough life of the arctic -- so he heads for Florida.
Author(s):
Robert Murphy
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Canadian Story (1958)
A history of Canada from the time of Jacques Cartier to the early twentieth century.
Read online at archive.org
Author(s):
May McNeer
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Wild Animal Babies from All Over the World (1958)
Twenty-two wild animal babies from a buffalo to a skunk selected from the Baby Wild Animals stamp book.
Author(s):
Kathleen N. Daly
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Friendly Gables (1960)
Author(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
The Incredible Journey: A Tale of Three Animals (1961)
A yellow lab, an ancient bull terrier and a Siamese cat make their way home across two hundred and fifty miles of Canadian wilderness.
Author(s):
Sheila Burnford
Illustrator(s):
Carl Burger
Jean-Claude’s Island (1963)
Author(s):
Natalie Savage Carlson
Illustrator(s):
Nancy Ekholm Burkert
Trap-Lines North (1965)
Based on the true adventures of Jim Vanderbeck this book tells the story of his winter on the trapline.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Enos Comstock
The Shooting of Dan McGrew and the Cremation of Sam McGee (1969)
Designed by Susan Jeffers.
Author(s):
Robert W. Service
Illustrator(s):
Susan Jeffers
Rosemary Wells
The Trumpet of the Swan (1970)
When Louis, a trumpeter swan is born, he is mute. This is the story of how he finds a voice, with the help of his friends and wins his true love.
Author(s):
E. B. White
Illustrator(s):
Edward Frascino
Baby Wild Animals from A to Z (1973)
Author(s):
Tibor Gergely
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Animals: A Picture Book of Facts and Figures (1974)
Author(s):
Tibor Gergely
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Hatchet (1987)
Author(s):
Gary Paulsen
Illustrator(s):
Neil Waldman
The Call of the Wild (1999)
Stolen from his home, Buck is shanghaied to the Klondike gold fields. There he bonds with John Thornton. When Thornton is killed by robbers, Buck becomes the leader of the wolf pack.
Author(s):
Jack London
Illustrator(s):
Wendell Minor
White Fang (2000)
A classic story of a half-dog half-wolf who is brutalized by a bad master during the Klondike gold rush, but finally finds a man he can love.
Author(s):
Jack London
Illustrator(s):
Ed Young
River of the Wolves (2006)
Dave Foster is captured during the French and Indian Wars and taken captive to Canada. After spending a winter learning the Indian ways, he escapes and makes his way home to Maine.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
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