Young Frederic Pipkin's music-loving parents named their son after the composer Frederic Chopin, and dream that their son will also become a musician. Despite Frederic's lack of musical talent and interest in learning the piano, his parents force him to take lessons from such teachers as Mr. Stricter and Mrs. Lumply. Then one day, Frederic finds ...
Every great romance begins with Yuck, a Love Story. Austin_s life is perfect until Amy moves in next door. He doesn_t understand why a girl has to live beside him, or why girls have to live anywhere for that matter. Despite having no use for Amy, Austin seems to be strangely affected by every comment she makes and everything about her - right down ...
Little Anton is shocked when he receives just an orange for Christmas. He decides to get a lawyer and sue Santa Claus for bringing him such a lousy present. Anton and his lawyer seem to have everyone on their side until Santa Claus announces that he's no longer going to deliver gifts to anyone! Now everyone is mad at Anton. Will he be able to ...
The top non-fiction bestseller of fall 2000 was the authoritative and beautiful "Canada: A People's History, Volume One." For fall 2001, M&S is proud to present the equally stunning and comprehensive second volume of this landmark work. This fall, on consecutive Sunday evenings starting on September 30, the CBC will broadcast eight new episodes ...
M&S is proud to be publishing the first volume of an exciting two-volume work, Canada: A People's History. These lavishly illustrated volumes, written by two of Canada's finest writers, are companions to a 30-hour, 15-part CBC-TV series on the history of Canada as seen through the voices of those who experienced it. The story told in Volume One ...
How can we know where we're going if we don't know where we are coming from? This question applies as much to nations as it does to travellers, and it rings especially loudly in the ears of Canadians. "Canada: A People's History" doesn't tell us where we are going, but it shows us where we have come from This richly illustrated book, the first of ...
At the age of eighty, Don Gillmor's grandmother let slip the defining secret of her life: her twin sister Jean was not her twin, but her aunt, and her family had emigrated from Scotland to Winnipeg to escape the stigma of her illegitimacy. That revelation set Gillmor off on what seemed at first like the most personal of quests: to track down his ...
Volume Two opens with the rebellion over property and language rights for the French-speaking Metis in Manitoba, led by the charismatic and troubled Louis Riel -- a key event in Canadian history and one that haunts the country to this day. It closes with the less bloody but no less traumatic confrontation between the Mohawk and the army at Oka, ...
Over the past 30 years Diamond and Schmitt Architects, one of the world's leading architecture firms, has produced a portfolio that reflects their core belief in the importance of content and context in architecture. Buildings should live in their environments, not be set apart. Since its formation in 1975, Diamond and Schmitt Architects has also ...
Frederic Pipkin was born to a musical family but seemingly had no talent--until his seventh birthday when a fabulous song happened and Frederic discovered a way to make music without making a sound! "The Fabulous Song" is a funny, gentle reminder that we all have individual talents--even if they turn out to be different from what was expected. ...
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