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📚💙#booksky In need of a little fun fantasy? One of my favourite authors of books for kids, Robert Munsch, has just turned 80. Have always enjoyed The Paperbag Princess.

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📚💙#booksky I have added Scottish author William Boyd's novel Gabriel's Moon to my summer reading stash. It looks like a good espionage caper.

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#booksky 📚💙 With June being the start of Pride Month in Canada, I'm reminded of Robin Stevenson's & Julie Mclaughlin's rhyming alphabet book 'Puppy Pride'.

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#booksky 📚💙 Congratulations to Newfoundland author Michael Crummey for receiving this year's Dublin Literary Award for his novel 'The Adversary'. A tale of sibling rivalry, power, corruption.

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#booksky 📚💙 Nothing beats a good detective/mystery book like Peter Robinson's 'Standing In the Shadows' on our Canadian Victoria Day long weekend.

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#booksky 📚💙 I was happy to learn this past week the author & illustrator of one of my favourite kids' books 'The Gruffalo' will be having a new book Sept. 2026.

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#booksky 📚💙 Nova Scotia author Kate Beaton's nonfiction graphic book/memoir 'Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands' addresses many contemporary issues. Not a kid's comic book!

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📚💙#booksky CBC Radio listeners will likely be familiar with Stuart McLean's The Vinyl Cafe program. Lots of story-telling over his many years as an author & broadcaster. 'Dave Cooks A Turkey' is a classic.

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📚💙 #booksky The Thursday Murder Club is a fun whodunit by Richard Osman.

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💙📚 #booksky Canadian author Linwood Barclay's 2024 novel/thriller genre 'I Will Ruin You' is an engaging page-turner.

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💙📚 #booksky 'Harley the Hero' is a 2021 picture book by Canadian author/illustrator Peggy Collins inspired by a real-life service dog & speaks to friendship, neurodivergence, courage.

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💙📚 #booksky As we're nearing 1st day of spring, I've been reading Saskatchewan-born author Sharon Butala's 'Coyote's Morning Cry - Meditations & Dreams from a Life in Nature'. Just one of her many thought-provoking books.

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#booksky 💙📚 The Golden Mean is the concluding book in the Griffin and Sabine trilogy by artist/illustrator/author Nick Bantock. I have thoroughly enjoyed all 3.

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Canada is not for sale

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In 2011 my family travelled w/ fellow Canadians to central & west Cuba. I took this photo of a typewriter in a birdcage at a gallery. Thank you to all the journalists, editorial cartoonists (eg Michael de Adder), artists, musicians & all who keep us informed in these challenging times.

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#booksky Re-reading Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations by Richard Wagamese (2016) with his reflections on how to feel joy in everyday things.

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I am Canadian. Period. Canada is not for sale.

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#booksky 💙📚 9 stories from one of my favourite Canadian authors Timothy Findley.

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Canada celebrates Family Literacy Day on Jan. 27 with this year's theme 'Learning To Be Green Together'. In Saskatchewan, the book Fox and Bear by La Ronge author/illustrator/photographer/environmental activist Miriam Korner is being highlighted. A great read for kids & adults. #books #booksky

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In the words of Joni Mitchell on Big Yellow Taxi, 'You don't know what you've got till it's gone'.

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📚💙#booksky In these turbulent global times, John O'Donohue's book Beauty brings calmness.

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Here are 2 books for young children that in this holiday season and beyond may help kickstart the conversation on the theme of giving, thinking of others and gratitude. #BookSky 💙📚

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A Saskatchewan winter can't slow down this Free Little Library. #books 💙📚

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💙📚A timely & thought-provoking latest book by Canadian journalist & author Carol Off. 'At A Loss for Words: Conversation In an Age of Rage'.

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