Books Published by Strong Nations Publishing

Dans ce livre, on parle des saisons changeantes le long d’une berge de rivière, des montagnes à la mer. Tu vas voir beaucoup de plantes et animaux qui habitent là. Ils grandissent et changent comme nous. 

Une saison est une des quatre parties de l’année : l’hiver, le printemps, l’été et l’automne. Tous entre nous ressentons les changements des saisons. Certains changements que nous faisons sont petits. D’autres changements sont grands. Tous entre nous grandissons et changeons. Qu’est-ce tu sais au sujet des saisons ? 

L’hiver, il fait froid haut dans les montagnes. Les jours sont courts. Beaucoup d’animaux dorment dans leurs tanières sous la neige. D’autres animaux sont actifs tout l’hiver. Quelques oiseaux et animaux voyagent aux endroits où il fait plus doux. La plupart des plantes se reposent pendant l’hiver. 

Le printemps, il fait plus doux le long des ruisseaux. Les jours sont plus longs. Les animaux dormant se réveillent et sortent de leurs tanières. Ils ont faim et commencent à chercher de la nourriture. Les oiseaux et animaux qui sont partis pour l’hiver reviennent. Les plantes commencent à pousser. 

L’été, il fait parfois chaud le long des rivières. Les jours sont longs. Les jeunes animaux et oiseaux grandissent. Ils apprennent comment trouver de la nourriture et se sauver du danger. Les plantes poussent, et leurs feuilles et branches s’étendent. Les baies sauvages commencent à mûrir, et beaucoup de gens et animaux les mangent. 

L’automne, il peut faire frais et venteux près d’un estuaire. Les jours sont plus courts. Les animaux et les oiseaux se préparent pour le long hiver qui s’en vient. Quelques-uns s’engraissent pour qu’ils puissent dormir tout l’hiver. D’autres se rassemblent avec leurs familles pour commencer leurs longs voyages aux endroits où il fait plus chaud. Les saumons rentrent de la mer et montent dans leurs ruisseaux natals pour pondre leurs œufs dans le gravier. Les feuilles sur les arbres, les arbustes et les buissons commencent à changer de couleur et à tomber. Les plantes commencent à se reposer. 

Laquelle des quatre saisons est ta préférée ? Pourquoi est-ce que tu préfères celle-là ? 

Educator & Series Information / Information pour éducateurs
Des montagnes à la mer est une collection de trois livres : 

• Nous habitons ici (maternelle) 

• Nous partageons les saisons (1ere année) 

• Nous sommes une communauté (2e année) 

Cette ressource est aussi disponible en anglais : From the Mountains to the Sea: We Share the Seasons

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Dimensions : 10" x 14" | 16 pages | ISBN: 9781771741316

Ce livre est à propos d’une rivière. Est-ce que tu peux trouver une rivière sur la couverture de ce livre ? Que sais-tu à propos des rivières ?  

La plupart des rivières commencent haut dans les montagnes. Quand l’eau descend la colline, elle crée de petites voies dans les roches et cailloux. Quand les voies s’élargissent, elles deviennent les ruisseaux. Lorsque plusieurs ruisseaux se rejoignent, ils forment une rivière. Certaines rivières ont des chutes d’eau et des bassins profondes. Dans quelques endroits, l’eau dépasse les roches rapidement pour former des rapides. Quand une rivière quitte la montagne et la terre commence à s’aplatir, l’eau ralentit. La rivière se termine quand elle de déverse dans l’océan. L’endroit où l’eau salé et l’eau fraiche se rencontrent est appelé un estuaire. Est-ce que tu as déjà visité un estuaire ?   

La berge d’une rivière est un bon endroit pour les plantes, les animaux et les gens à vivre parce que nous pouvons tous trouver de l’eau et de la nourriture là. Le saumon est une nourriture importante pour beaucoup d’entre nous. Est-ce que tu as déjà mangé du saumon ? 

Les gens ont prêté attention au cycle de vie du saumon pendant des milliers d’années. Nous avons appris que parfois nous pouvons aider les saumons à survivre en construisant une écloserie à côté de la rivière. Quelques écloseries sont grandes et d’autres sont assez petites. As-tu déjà visité une écloserie ? 

Il y a beaucoup de grandeurs de rivières dans le monde. Certaines sont larges. Certaines sont étroites. Certaines sont profondes. Certaines sont peu profondes. 
 
Est-ce que tu habites près d’une rivière ? Quelles plantes et animaux est-ce que tu as vu là ? 

Educator & Series Information / Information pour éducateurs

Des montagnes à la mer est une collection de trois livres : 

• Nous habitons ici (maternelle) 

• Nous partageons les saisons (1ere année) 

• Nous sommes une communauté (2e année) 

Cette ressource est aussi disponible en anglais : From the Mountains to the Sea: We Are a Community

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Dimensions : 10" x 14" | 16 pages | ISBN : 9781771741323

Join us on a mid August day, on the wild and rocky shores of the Pacific Northwest Coast. From the orca to the tiniest barnacle, enjoy a colourful glimpse into the lives of the many creatures that live in, and around, Hideaway Cove.

Brenda Boreham and Laura Timmermans share with us, through words and illustrations, the many interconnections within a healthy marine eco-system.

Reviews
"Hideaway Cove is a must-have when teaching a seashore ecosystem unit. This book provides opportunities for students to share their connections with the seashore while they learn more about the interactions within the marine ecosystem.” – Cindy Haack, Canadian Teacher Magazine 

“Hideaway Cove is a delightful, information-packed picture book that takes children through a day in the life of a west coast cove. Here, humans are noticeably absent, and the diverse plants and animals tell a wonderful tale. Brenda Boreham’s text is lyrical and rich in detail.” – Sheryl McFarlane, Hakai Magazine 

Educator & Series Information

Search for a crab that travels from page to page in this story! 

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32 Pages | ISBN" 9781771741347 | Hardcover

Join us on a mid August day, on the wild and rocky shores of the Pacific Northwest Coast. From the orca to the tiniest barnacle, enjoy a colourful glimpse into the lives of the many creatures that live in, and around, Hideaway Cove.

Brenda Boreham and Laura Timmermans share with us, through words and illustrations, the many interconnections within a healthy marine eco-system.

Reviews
"Hideaway Cove is a must-have when teaching a seashore ecosystem unit. This book provides opportunities for students to share their connections with the seashore while they learn more about the interactions within the marine ecosystem.” – Cindy Haack, Canadian Teacher Magazine 

“Hideaway Cove is a delightful, information-packed picture book that takes children through a day in the life of a west coast cove. Here, humans are noticeably absent, and the diverse plants and animals tell a wonderful tale. Brenda Boreham’s text is lyrical and rich in detail.” – Sheryl McFarlane, Hakai Magazine 

Educator & Series Information
Each book in the By Day and By Night Nature Series focuses on a scene typical of a distinct west coast habitat, showing how living and non-living things are connected in a healthy ecosystem. As readers, we observe animals going about their daily activities: caring for their young, searching for food, and responding to the changes in light, temperature, and weather conditions throughout the day or night. The last four pages of each book provide facts about the highlighted animals and plants as well as features that are unique to their habitats. The final page suggests ways that young readers and their families can be respectful as they visit wilderness areas.

Search for a crab that travels from page to page in this story! 

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32 Pages | ISBN: 9781771741330 | Paperback

The Raven Series is a set of six books written for the emergent reader and learner. Each book focuses on a specific learning intention that builds on strengthening learning with the support of an adult.

The titles and their learning intentions are:

• Raven and the Box: promotes an oral retell
• Raven and Duck: basic concepts
• Raven and Frog Count: number recognition
• I Spy Raven: rhyme and perspective
• Raven Sings the ABC's: letter recognition, vocabulary building
• Raven Makes a Necklace: colours and patterns

Educator Information
This resource is also available in French HERE!

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ISBN: 9781771745888

Watch as six little insects keep an eye on Raven as he settles in to go to sleep. The sky darkens and the stars come out only to reveal something very big at the end.

Educator & Series Information
This book is part of the Raven Series, a set of six books written for the emergent reader and learner. Each book focuses on a specific learning intention that builds on strengthening learning with the support of an adult.

A Little Note about Rhyming and Perspective:
Learning rhyme is a foundational skill and this book provides opportunity to explore rhythm, rhyme and visual perspective. A learner’s ability to recognize words that rhyme will support them as they begin to learn word families later on. A simple word family is the “at” family: bat, cat, hat, mat etc. When a learner can recognize the rhyming sounds, or words, they can begin to anticipate the text. As well, a learner’s ability to understand visual perspective allows them to understand the storyline deeper. The visual perspective changes under a magnifying glass.

This resource is available in French: Je vois Corbeau
Note: French book dimensions differ.

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16 pages | Dimensions: 10" x 14" | ISBN: 9781771741545

Raven and Duck are good friends. They like to play together outside in the summer sun but most of what they do is opposite to the other.

Educator & Series Information
This book is part of the Raven Series, a set of six books written for the emergent reader and learner. Each book focuses on a specific learning intention that builds on strengthening learning with the support of an adult.

A Little Note about Opposites:
Learning opposites is a foundational skill. So many functions of our daily lives are around sorting and categorizing and understanding opposites is a great beginning. As well, knowing what opposites are supports a young learner in both comprehension and vocabulary. Understanding a storyline that describes something big and something small will support comprehension. With the addition of opposite words in a young learner’s vocabulary, they can now add a description to things. As an example, the beginning stages of use may be the big boat and the small boat. As language progresses it may turn to the large boat and the little boat. At an even deeper progression, it may turn to the humongous boat and the tiny boat.

This resource is available in French: Corbeau et Canard
Note: Book dimensions differ in French. 

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16 pages | Dimensions: 10" x 14" | ISBN: 9781771741569

Join Raven and Frog as they both count to ten in their own way. Raven teaches one to ten in rhyme and with a focus on number recognition. Frog teaches one to ten with visual supports of number representation.

Educator & Series Information
This book is part of the Raven Series, a set of six books written for the emergent reader and learner. Each book focuses on a specific learning intention that builds on strengthening learning with the support of an adult.

A Little Note about Counting:
Learning to count is a foundational skill and our world is full of numbers. Young learners will learn early on in life that they can have one candy, not ten. In order to support the learning we can teach first what the numbers 1 to 10 look like while counting/naming them. After many practises counting/naming, we can then teach the amount of each number. For example, we can show the learners; I can hold one cracker in my left hand and two crackers in my right hand. Last, we can show number representation in a pattern, like the number patterns on dice. Of course, this is only the beginning of discovering that our world is full of math but this is such a great start for any young learner.

This resource is available in French: Corbeau et Grenouille comptent
Note: French book dimensions differ.

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16 pages | Dimensions: 10" x 14" | ISBN: 9781771741538

Based on a traditional story, Raven and the Box is a simple storyline. With each action that Raven makes you can play along with your own actions.

Educator & Series Information
This book is part of the Raven Series, a set of six books written for the emergent reader and learner. Each book focuses on a specific learning intention that builds on strengthening learning with the support of an adult.

A Little Note about Retelling:
Learning to tell and retell stories is a foundational skill. Oral retells promote comprehension and build vocabulary capacity. This story allows actions to be performed as it is being told. Actions can sometimes support the retelling of a storyline. Invite learners and their families to come in and share one of their own traditional family stories.

This resource is available in French: Corbeau et la boîte
Note: French book dimensions differ. 

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16 pages | Dimensions: 10" x 14" | ISBN: 9781771741521

Follow Raven as he flies around looking for coloured beads to make a necklace. The beads he finds are different shapes and colours.

Educator & Series Information
This book is part of the Raven Series, a set of six books written for the emergent reader and learner. Each book focuses on a specific learning intention that builds on strengthening learning with the support of an adult.

A Little Note about Shapes and Colours:
Sorting by shapes and colours is a foundational skill. Our world is full of shapes and colours! Young learners strive to make sense of their surroundings and look to identify shapes and colours either in real life or through multimedia. Once learned a young learner can then sort and categorize many things by shape or colour.

This resource is available in French: Corbeau fait un collier
Note: French book dimensions differ.

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16 pages | Dimensions: 10" x 14" | ISBN: 9781771741552

Follow Raven as he introduces each letter of the alphabet! Have fun naming each of the images for each letter.

Educator & Series Information
This book is part of the Raven Series, a set of six books written for the emergent reader and learner. Each book focuses on a specific learning intention that builds on strengthening learning with the support of an adult.

A Little Note about the Alphabet:
Learning the alphabet is a foundational skill and learning through song is a wonderful way to learn! In hopes to eliminate confusion of learning to identify letters, we have typeset the letters in a specific manner. For example, L M N O P is not one letter and for young learners can be mistaken as such if not broken up. As you are singing the song slowly together, pointing at each letter will support young learners significantly. Notice that we pluralize alphabet to indicate there are many kinds.

Each letter of the alphabet in the book has a corresponding picture. Taking the time to talk about each picture, over several reads, will support building vocabulary. Some of the pictures are from other Raven books to help learners make connections from book to book.

This book is available in French: Corbeau chante la chanson de l’alphabet 
Note: French version dimensions differ.

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16 pages | Dimensions: 10" x 14" | ISBN: 9781771741514

This Later Pimary bundle features one copy each of three Strong Stories sets: Coast Salish, Kanyen’keha:ka and Tlingit (24 books total).

Coast Salish Strong Stories written by Celestine Aleck include the following:

Granny and I Get Traditional Names
Mom, How Do You Make Smoked Fish?
Why Ravens and Wolves Hunt Together
Taking Care of Our Mother Earth
The Cedar Tree: The Heart of Our People
The Great Blanket of Moss
The Great Trade
The Sun and the Moon

Kanyen’keha:ka Strong Stories written by Michelle Corneau include the following:

Big Bear
Kanyen’kehà:ka Clans
Creation Story Sky Woman
The Thanksgiving Address
The Game
The Three Sisters
The Woodpecker
Two Row Wampum

Tlingit Strong Stories written by Bill Helin include the following:

Gift of the Salmon
Hong Kong Story Totems
Making a Canoe
Making a Drum
Raven Returns the Daylight
Spirit Bear
Tlingit Fishing
Tlingit Storytellers

Reading levels span end grade 2, grade 3 and beginning grade 4.

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ISBN: 9781771746717

This bundle includes all 8 titles, 6 of each, in the Strong Stories Coast Salish series (48 books total).

Coast Salish Strong Stories written by Celestine Aleck include the following:

Granny and I Get Traditional Names
Mom, How Do You Make Smoked Fish?
Why Ravens and Wolves Hunt Together
Taking Care of Our Mother Earth
The Cedar Tree: The Heart of Our People
The Great Blanket of Moss
The Great Trade
The Sun and the Moon

This resource is also available in French HERE!

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ISBN: 9781771746724

Own the entire set of Coast Salish Strong Stories written by Celestine Aleck!

Included in this set is one copy of each of the following:

Granny and I Get Traditional Names
Mom, How Do You Make Smoked Fish?
Why Ravens and Wolves Hunt Together
Taking Care of Our Mother Earth
The Cedar Tree: The Heart of Our People
The Great Blanket of Moss
The Great Trade
The Sun and the Moon 

This resource is also available in French HERE!

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ISBN: 9781771745741

In this Coast Salish story, told in the voice of a young girl, she describes how she and her Granny get ready for their naming ceremony. When the special day arrives, the Longhouse fills with people who will witness and celebrate the sharing of their traditional names.

Educator & Series Information
This book is part of the Strong Stories: Coast Salish series. Strong Stories focus on different First Nation territories from across Canada and the United States. These stories reflect the belief that our stories are the roots of our people, our lands and our cultures. It is from our stories that we grow and become strong and proud.

This resource is also available in French: Grand-maman et moi recevons des noms traditionnels.

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16 pages | 6.00" x 9.00" | ISBN: 9781771741279