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Une âme suffit
Publisher: Bouton d'or Acadie$19.95When Cassandre, an orphan, is adopted by a couple, she doesn’t suspect that she just entered a mysterious world. Her parents soon give her a gift: eternal youth. But there is a price to pay for immortality, and Cassandre is not ready to submit herself to it!
Determined to limit the damage caused by this “gift,” she tries to keep a low profile in her new school, but Antoine, a classmate with devastating charm, does not see things the same way. He notices Cassandre’s strange abilities hands her a comicbook he made, suggesting that he knows her secret. Neither superhero nor vampire, who is she? Will she have to sacrifice her soulmate to regain freedom?
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Appi, lutin parfumeur
Publisher: Bouton d'or Acadie$9.95Appi is a pixie, unlike any other: she is a shy perfume sprite. Despite her legendary shyness, she is preparing for an extraordinary outing: today is the day the purple waterlily blooms, which occurs only once every ten years! Determined to obtain the nectar from the precious flower for its fragrance, Appi goes on a quest. But she is not the only one searching for the treasured extract!
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Drôle de Soccer !
Artist: Réjean RoyPublisher: Bouton d'or Acadie$9.95Two young Canada geese discover a strange object in their natural habitat. Believing that it is a dinosaur egg, they alert their flock immediately. They quickly ban together when a group of strangers arrives and begins kicking the abandoned egg. What ensues is a very funny match. Will the geese enforce the rules of the game between man and nature?
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Le Pit à papa
Publisher: Bouton d'or Acadie$9.95Here is the story of Petites Lunettes and her love for her father. Papa Arthur loves her too, but he has a weakness for cars. These cars become entertwined with her life: she grows up with them, is bathed in their music, and they will eventually take her away from the beloved island where her family lives. But some cars have wings that can circle back to close the loop on the scenic road of love!
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Marcher dans le ciel
Publisher: Bouton d'or Acadie$12.95Poet laureate and spoken word artist Sonia Cotton with the help of Annie Boulanger’s loving illustrations have created a unique book. Arrival of new neighbours, search for self-esteem, loss of a beloved grand-father, existence of time, mental stability, joy of creativity, amongst other, are explored with simple and yet profound words and images. A great high in content, low in reading difficulty book, sure to stimulate family or class room discussions.
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Une étoile sur la dune
Publisher: Bouton d'or Acadie$19.95Written and illustrated by a painter who knows from personal experience how it feels for a child to be locked within oneself; this book travels a unique path. An artist’s book, accessible to the whole family, where imagery and words draw us towards the healing sea. No miracle cures, just a simple story of love, patience, and self-discovery, woven by mother, father, brother and the seashore.
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Le colosse des neiges de Campbellton
Artist: Paul RouxPublisher: Bouton d'or Acadie$19.95Gabriel, Ania and Mamadou, followed by their faithful dog, are on a ski vacation in Campbellton. But soon, they find themselves scouting a terrifying beast up frozen paths and towards a splendid mansion nestled near Mount Sugarloaf. The owner is a likeable Swiss chocolate millionaire, however Ania, the know-it-all of the young detective trio, is not buying his story. Will the skills of the ‘Three Musketeers’ finally falter on their 7th adventure?
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Riette l’assiette
Publisher: Bouton d'or Acadie$9.95Does Charlotte the artist know that behind her back, Table and Chair are wrestling for Riette the plate’s attention? Riette is so attractive in her yellow polkadotted attire! Take care: this love triangle might just end up with something broken… But take heart: something new will appear, because, after all, an artist is handy with her hands, her imagination and re-using can be so productive!
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Le trésor de Memramcook
Artist: Maurice CormierPublisher: Bouton d'or Acadie$14.95It isn’t easy being the new kid in a seemingly quiet village where everyone shares familiar ties. The school principal insists Marie the grumbler, from Quebec, work with Mathieu Landry, the teaser. Marie resists all she can, but finally, between the wind, Mathieu’s persistence and his grandfather’s insistence there is a treasure to be found in the Memramcook valley, Marie discovers the story about the Acadian Renaissance. And a treasure to boot!
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Quacko Académie
Artist: Dano LeBlancPublisher: Bouton d'or Acadie$9.95Quacko is feeling blue. He has friends, but no voice. That’s embarrassing for a duck! And how in the world will he get Fine Plume’s attention? The big singing contest is coming up soon; Quacko is afraid he’ll look bad. However, his instinct to help a competitor ends up helping him learn to sing in his own voice, and win over his sweetheart!
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Diego l’escargot
Artist: Giles CormierPublisher: Bouton d'or Acadie$9.95Diego has just landed in New Brunswick, searching someone who will love him more than anything in the world. But it isn’t easy to make friends when you leave a long gooey trail behind you! After a few encounters he is dropped by a heron in the Botanical Gardens in St-Jacques du Madawaska. There, a chef from Brittany is cooking up… snail soup! But who knows? Maybe love will conquer!
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Capitaine Baboune / Captain Crankypants
Artist: Réjean RoyPublisher: Bouton d'or Acadie$8.95Arnaud, previously met in The Ogre’s belly finds himself too old for outdoor play. He appears to have mutated into the king of grouches, and so will be kidnapped onto Captain Crankypants’ celestial ship, which strangely enough, runs on grouses and grumbles. Fortunately, Loïc, Arnaud’s little brother, is not too old to trust Dylan of the Mountains, a gentle dragon who has come to Arnaud’s rescue. Armed mostly with good faith, they pair off to save Arnaud. Captain Crankypants better be wary!
Crankiness might be the order of the day for Arnaud but will he really enjoy being forcibly enlisted on Captain Crankypants celestial ship?
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ma maman toute neuve / My Brand New Mommy
Artist: Jacinthe ChevalierPublisher: Bouton d'or Acadie$11.95My mom and dad have decided to make a little brother, without asking my half-brother, my half-sisters or my advice. The almost baby brother isn’t even here yet and he is already stealing my thunder. My good old mom has gotten too big and fragile. I need a new one! Our neighbour Sandy would be perfect! I’ve made up my mind; I’m moving!
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La Sirène des Iles de la Madeleine
Artist: Dominic BercierPublisher: Bouton d'or Acadie$8.95Un conte à saveur écologique où les animaux passent à l’action… On y découvre pourquoi la petite Julie des Îles de la Madeleine est entraînée au fond des mers par le homard Pince-sans-rire.
Transformée en sirène, elle ne parcourra plus les plages à la recherche de trésors, mais on pourrait bien l’apercevoir pourchassant les braconniers et les pêcheurs sans scrupule…
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Le Départ de Julie
Artist: Réjean RoyPublisher: Bouton d'or Acadie$8.95Du lever au coucher du soleil, Julie vivait son quotidien. Chaque lundi, elle faisait son lavage. Avec la complicité de mère nature et un « Salut, Marie », les nuages gris disparaissaient. Mais un insecte à six pattes l’observait et attendait son heure. Puis, un jour, les draps blancs de Julie furent noirs de fourmis… Mais où emmène-t-on Julie et sa petite ?
Texte poétique magnifiquement illustré. Il a été inspiré par la Déportation des Acadiens de 1755, mais il peut fort bien s’appliquer aux nombreux départs forcés ou déplacements de population actuels.
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A Photographer’s Guide to Prince Edward Island
Photographer: John Sylvester, Stephen DesRochesPublisher: Acorn Press$24.95New by award-winning photographer team.
There are very few places as photogenic as Prince Edward Island. With its sweeping landscapes, scenic vistas and miles upon miles of beaches, the Island is a haven for photographers. Taking advantage of potential stunning images of the Island in all seasons, these two award-winning photographers know the best places to set up, when and how best to photograph each corner of the Island and how to get there. The thousands of visitors from all over the world who travel to the Island learn the secrets of these two seasoned experts.
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Comment Naquirent un poulain,cinq chatons et la Confederation
Artist: Brenda JonesPublisher: Acorn Press$12.95L’action du dernier roman de l’auteure primée de livres pour enfants Deirdre Kessler se déroule à l’été de 1864. Les jumeaux Gabriel et Grace, de neuf ans, aident leurs parents à l’écurie familiale de la rue Great George, à Charlottetown. Ils assistent à toute l’excitation provoquée par la venue d’un cirque en ville et l’arrivée par bateau de politiciens des Maritimes et de la province du Canada-Uni. Les jumeaux suivent des leçons de dessin de leur ami, l’artiste Robert Harris, de quatorze ans, qui joue dans l’orchestre chargé de divertir les délégués lors du grand bal et du banquet offerts à l’édifice colonial. Mais les jumeaux sont plus excités à cause de leur cheval préféré, qui va bientàt donner naissance à son premier poulain.
Remontez dans le temps et parcourez les rues de Charlottetown pour jeter un regard sur les réunions ayant mené à la Confédération, avec ce livre magnifiquement illustré par l’artiste primée Brenda Jones.
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Prince Edward Island National Park Past and Present
Publisher: Acorn Press$16.95Since Prince Edward Island National Park was first created in 1937 it has welcomed visitors from around the world, captivating the hearts of all who experience its serene and tranquil beauty. Stretching for about 40 km along the north shore of Prince Edward Island between New London and Tracadie Bays and the tip of the Greenwich Peninsula in St. Peters Bay, this dynamic coastal landscape is constantly changing, shaped by the wind and waves. The sand dunes and beaches, wetlands and forests provide a home for many plants and animals. Wildflowers add colour everywhere and marram grass glistens in the sunlight, rippled by the coastal breezes. Great blue herons grace the ponds and marshes and shorebirds feed along the water’s edge. Several species at risk are protected in the park, including the endangered piping plover. People have been part of this coastal landscape for thousands of years. At Greenwich, archaeological evidence reveals 10,000 years of cultural history, from early Aboriginal peoples to the Mi’kmaq, early French and Acadian settlers and immigrants from the British Isles. Once an elegant summer home built in 1896, Dalvay-by-the-Sea National Historic Site is now a heritage inn. Green Gables Heritage Place, also part of L. M. Montgomery`s Cavendish National Historic site, inspired L.M. Montgomery’s setting for Anne of Green Gables. This book, with stunning new photography by the Island’s best photgraphers complimented with archival photos, captures the essence of this special place, preserved and protected for you to return to again and again.
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This Navy Doctor Came Ashore
Publisher: Acorn Press$17.95Dr. Read entered the Royal Canadian Navy in 1943 and worked for three years as a flight surgeon. When the war was winding down, he realized that his career as a flight surgeon was also over. But he remembered how much he had enjoyed the three weeks he spent in Charlottetown when he relieved the medical officer at HMCS Queen Charlotte. This city of 20,000, in which this landship was ‘moored’, was much to his liking partly because he had grown up in Amherst, Nova Scotia, just across the Northumberland Strait, where he thought the culture was very similar. He also knew that as the only medical officer there would be independence, significant responsibility and virtual freedom from naval protocol and politics. One couldn’t ask for more. But this was during prohibition on the Island and little did he know that a great deal of his time would be spent writing “prescriptions” for alcohol so that the officers could be allowed to drink. Nor did he know that because of the lack of family physicians on the Island, he would be asked to open a general practice in a rural area of the province. For a flight surgeon who had little experience in family medicine, this would be a whole new adventure. This book chronicles some of the noteworthy events of the time he spent spent as a country doctor.
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I am an Islander
Publisher: Acorn Press$19.95No man is a Prince Edward Island. That’s a good thing, because the tiny province is eroding a metre per year. In the collection I am An Islander, Patrick Ledwell explores the hilarity of life viewed from the country’s crumbling Eastern edge. Raised in a big family, the Island comedian looks back at his rural roots and asks: I am an Islander is a funny and heartfelt stockpile of standup, sketches, and rants, banked up to defend your good humour against everything that might erode it.
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Riptides New Island Fiction
Publisher: Acorn Press$21.95A call was sent out asking writers to submit unpublished short stories for a fiction anthology featuring newer writers with a significant P.E.I. connection. There were no boundaries for setting or genre, only a limit of 5,000 words. PEI is strong on tradition, which includes out-migration and immigration. Thus, its culture and demographics are changing, and these PEI writers both are Island-born and hail from away – Australia and Calgary, Newfoundland and Ukraine. The result is twenty-three stories, which take the reader from a ritual gathering of PEI widows to Chernobyl in the nuclear disaster’s aftermath, from a menacing marital game of hide-and-seek through the Maritime landscape to gender clashes on an outback sheep ranch, from a religious commune in Alberta to the Enlightenment Tour bus into Quebec. Whether the characters are struggling for dear life in breaking surf, gasping for emotional air at a ladies’ candle party or fearing the Tall Tailor’s scissors, the authors demonstrate a rich variety of fictional talent and imagination emerging from what Island poet Milton Acorn called the “red tongue…In the ranged jaws of the Gulf,” and revising our perception of “the land of Anne.”
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What Really Happened is This A Poetry Memoir
Publisher: Acorn Press$18.95This collection of moving poetry puts into words the heartbreak and triumphs of looking after ailing parents.What Really Happened is This is a poetry memoir that focuses on the ten-year journey of an adult “only child” as her beloved parents face declining health and death. The wry, poignant, humorous, and sometimes heartbreaking, poems chronicle the poet’s struggle to find balance in her life, as she juggles the needs of her family with her own work and creative life. The poems touch on the universal in specific experiences, as the poet faces the death of each parent, and realizes she is now next in line.
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Great Day Fer Livin’
Publisher: Acorn Press$19.95After living in Australia for 18 years, Juliet Wilson returned to Prince Edward Island for an extended stay. The Island’s allure hit her front on: not just the vibration of the gently rolling landscape, with its patchwork quilt of red soil and emerald fields, but the beauty of the people who make up the rich fabric of the Island, their sense of place, and their way of being.She spent the summer of 2009 driving the back roads of Prince Edward Island, introducing herself to people she met on the wharves and in the fields and in their shops, and getting to know them by listening to their stories and eventually photographing them. Like an informal anthropological study, this 48-page book gives a glimpse into the culture, belief, and practices of the primary producers who make up the backbone of Prince Edward Island.
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Mud, Sweat and Tears
Publisher: Acorn Press$19.95Mud, Sweat and Tears tells the story of Bud Ings’ adventures as a rural veterinarian in the 1950s. As one of Prince Edward Island’s first professionally trained veterinarians, Ings set up his practice in the eastern town of Souris before moving to Montague.
Farms were rarely close at hand, however, and the sight of Bud Ings behind the wheel of his Volkswagen Bug became a familiar one on the Island’s highways and muddy back roads. And whether he was helping to deliver a calf, giving shots of penicillin to a pig, or putting down a beloved horse, Ings treated each animal- and each farmer- with dignity and respect.
Ings’ memoir is a rich, often humorous account of his first decade as a vet, at time when there were few vacations, no modern tools of the trade, and no request too strange to attend to. It’s also the story of a past era, when PEI’s farms flourished and the animals were not only the backbone of the economy, but part of the family.
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Jean Pierre Roma (French)
Publisher: Acorn Press$9.95This is the French translation of Jean Pierre Roma and the Company of the East of Isle-Saint Jean.
In the 1700s, Jean Pierre Roma brought settlers to carve an international trading empire out of the virgin forests of Isle St. Jean — now known as Prince Edward Island. A successful entrepreneur in a thriving community, he saw all his accomplishments destroyed by privateers in 1745. Yet the story of Roma lives on as an inspiration and a cautionary tale to leaders and builders. This new edition of a monograph originally published in 1977 ensures that Roma is not forgotten.
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Growing Up With Julie
Publisher: Acorn Press$19.95Growing Up With Julie is the story of Gerry Steele’s childhood with a French-speaking mother in an English-speaking community. Set in Miscouche, near Summerside, Prince Edward Island, in the early part of the 20th century, the story is an historical snapshot of a life heavily influenced by the Catholic church, poverty and the Depression, alcoholism, and cultural tensions between the Acadians and the Scots. At the head of the family is Steele’s grandmother, a woman unwavering in her beliefs—regardless of their merit, validity, or tendency to offend. It is also a story of one woman’s determination to educate her children in a hard-living rural society coming to terms with modernity.
Gifted with an excellent memory for detail, Gerry Steele delivers a story that is rich in integrity and precision, with a good dose of humour to brighten up the dark corners.
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Acadian Legends, Folktales and Songs
Publisher: Acorn Press$18.95Island historian and folklorist Georges Arsenault has been collecting songs and stories from Acadian Prince Edward Island since his student days in the 1970s: words gathered by lamplight in the early part of the 20th century, when the local men and women would pass on what they’d learned from elders long gone. His 17 informants were mostly hard-working parents of very large families, some well-educated and some not. Included in this collection are 8 stories, 13 legends and 23 songs with lyrics and musical notation, mainly reproduced from taped interviews. Originally published as Contes, legendes et chansons de l’Île-du-Prince-Edouard, this English translation by Sally Ross includes footnotes and a bibliography, as well as photos of his informants
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A Bountiful Harvest
Editor: Alice Anna ReesePublisher: Acorn Press$22.95Little did organizers know when they planted the seed 15 years ago that the Literary Awards would reap such a bountiful harvest. This collection of over 35 first-prize short stories, poetry, and writing for children represents the best new writing in Prince Edward Island. Readers will recognize several of the names – people who have gone on to be published or produced – including Rai Berzins, Lesley-Anne Bourne, Judy Gaudet, Elaine Hammond, Hugh MacDonald, Brent MacLaine, Steve McOrmond, Dianne Hicks Morrow, Melissa Mullen, Libby Oughton, and Nancy Russell.
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Landmarks: An Anthology
Editor: Brent MacLainePublisher: Acorn Press$16.95Poetry by 50 of the Atlantic region’s finest poets
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Tales From Willowshade Farm
Publisher: Acorn Press$3.99Betty Howatt has spent half a century on her family’s fruit farm in Prince Edward Island, within sight and sound of the Northumberland Strait. In this collection of stories, she shares her gardening lore, her memories of days gone by, and her prodigious knowledge of the flora and fauna around her. Told with wisdom, humour, and a refreshing lack of sentimentality, these chronicles are both entertaining and informative, and give the reader a tantalizing glimpse into a fast disappearing world of peace and beauty on a small family farm.
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Long Reach Home
Publisher: Acorn Press$15.95Reaching back through a family full of stories and characters, from Newfoundland on her mother’s side to New Brunswick on her father’s, the poems in Long Reach Home are characteristically personal, warm, and accessible- by turns humorous, by turns enraged- but always engaged with the world, distilling simple pleasures and fundamental human struggles from everyday experience.
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Dip & Veer Reflections on the Art of Alex Colville
Publisher: Acorn Press$14.95Frank Ledwell has previously published one volume of prose and poetry, The North Shore of Home (Acorn Press, 2002) and two collections of poetry, Crowbush and Other Poems (Ragweed, 1990) and Dip & Veer: Reflections on the Art of Alex Colville (Acorn Press, 1996). He has performed as a popular storyteller in venues across Prince Edward Island. Frank Ledwell is a Professor Emeritus of the English Department of the University of Prince Edward Island, where he taught creative writing for many years. He was the first recipient of the PEI Council of the Arts’ Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Literary Arts, and for many years was known as the Island’s unofficial poet laureate.
