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In the 1950s, Abraham Okimasis becomes the first Indian ever to win the Trapper's Festival Dog Sled Race and, as tradition dictates, he is kissed by the festival's beautiful Fur Queen.

"Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing" tells another story of the mythical Wasaychigan Hill Indian Reserve, also the setting for Tomson Highway's award winning play The Rez Sisters.

Protrays the attempts of seven Indian women from a northern Ontario reserve to beat the odds and win the world's largest bingo in Ontario.

Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, raised amid the glamour of New York society, with glorious homes on Fifth Avenue and in Newport, Rhode Island.

The Kindergartener’s Handbook introduces 19 basic concepts.

This book introduces basic sounds and develops early language skills using images of things that every kid should know.

This book introduces the ABCs and develops early language skills using images of animals that every kid should know.

This book introduces basic emotions and expressions, and develops early language skills. Vibrant colors and images are designed to attract the attention of babies and toddlers.

This book introduces basic colors and develops early language skills using images of things that every kid should know.

This book introduces common sports and develops early language skills using images of things that every kid should know.

This book introduces basic numbers and develops early language skills using images of things that every kid should know.

The Toddler’s Handbook introduces 17 basic concepts.

The Baby’s Handbook includes 21 popular nursery rhyme songs. Black and white illustrations are essential as a newborn’s retina can only distinguish between light and dark contrasts.

The Preschooler’s Handbook introduces 18 basic concepts.

“Speaking one language, I submit, is like living in a house with one window only...” From his legendary birth in a snow bank in northwestern Manitoba, through his metamorphosis to citizen-artist o