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Fat-Back & Molasses by Ivan Jesperson 2

A Treasury of Newfoundland Humour and Wit by J Burke 3

Fluctuat Nec Mergitur by Jean Claude Roy 4

That Forgetful Shore by Trudy Morgan-Cole 5

The Widows of Paradise Bay by Jill Sooley 6

Newfoundland Stories: The Loss of the Waterwitch & Other Tales by Eldon Drodge 7

Every Little Thing by Chad Pelley 8

Silk Sails by Calvin Evans 9

Island Maid: Voices of Outport Women by Rhonda Pelley, Sheilagh O’Leary 10

Here Be Dragons by Bruce Hynes 11

Cod: The Ecological History of the North Atlantic Fishery by George A. Rose 12

Known Unto God by Frank Gogos, Morgan MacDonald 13

Newfoundland Portfolio by J.M. Sullivan 14

A Corner Boy Remembers: Growing up in St. John's by Frank Kennedy 15

In The Field by Joan Sullivan 16

To Be Frank: Memories of an Extraordinary Newfoundlander by Frank Dyke, Joan Sullivan 17

Master Shipbuilders of Newfoundland and by Calvin Evans 18

Almost Home by Jennifer Morgan 19

The Adventures of Gus & Isaac: Backyard Bullies by Debbie Hanlon, Grant Boland 20

One Wonderful Fine Day for a Sculpin Named Sam by Al Pittman, Shawn O’Hagan 21

Down by Jim Longs Stage: Rhymes for children and young fish by Al Pittman, Pam Hall 22

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Fat-back & Molasses is a collection of favourite old recipes from

Newfoundland & Labrador. In addition to the homespun recipes, this book

contains sketches and stories that also give a deep insight into the culture

and life of a people very much in communion with nature and the joy of life.

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR

Life began for Ivan in Piapot, Saskatchewan, the fourth son and sixth child of

the village blacksmith, Art Jesperson. After his family moved to British

Columbia, he went to sea at 15 and sailed coastal and deeps ships from

Victoria, Vancouver and Montreal. After some time he was ordained into The

United Church of Canada and sent to Newfoundland on his first pastoral

charge. Rev. Ivan Jesperson arrived Newfoundland 1968 as clergyman for

United Church on Fogo Island. There he compiled recipes of Newfoundland

and Labrador in a cookbook entitled Fat-Back & Molasses. He also published

an island newsletter entitled The Fogo Island Profile. Moving to St. John's in

1972 he continued pastoral ministry in Wesley United Church until 1975 when

he began Jesperson Printing & Publishing. Jesperson left Newfoundland in

1987 and went on to the world of desktop publishing in Toronto and Ottawa.

Retiring from business in 1992, he re-entered pastoral work of The United

Church of Canada and served Aylwin Pastoral Charge in Kazabazua, Quebec

until his retirement in 2000. Since retirement he has returned to British

Columbia and lives in Victoria with his wife Mollie.

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Dr. Joe Burke, a native Newfoundlander, enjoys a good story and delights in

telling stories about his fun loving countrymen. Someone has to keep the

humor mills running in Canada, he says, or we will all die of melancholy.

There is a little chance of that when you read, A Treasury of Newfoundland

Humor and Wit. Dr. Burke has provided for us a rare collection of the most

humorous anecdotes and wit attributed to the fun loving people of the happy

province. To add to your enjoyment, L B Jenson has contributed

immeasurably in providing illustrations that depict Newfoundland's scenic

beauty and way of life. To all the mainlanders who read this book we hope

that you will get a good impression of what it's like back'ome.

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THIS BOOK IS the journey, and in a sense the journal of an artist who has

conducted a forty-five-year love affair with Newfoundland since he first set foot

there in 1966. Travelling to every inhabited corner of the island, he has

recorded his personal vision: painted almost entirely on-site, each image is

the story of one day in his life, and one day in the life of a community.


Jean Claude Roy was born in Rochefort sur Mer, France, in 1948. Committed

to becoming an artist since childhood, he first came in Newfoundland as a

sailor with the French merchant marine at the age of 17. After living in

Newfoundland for a number of years and taking Canadian citizenship, he now

divides his time between France and Newfoundland. Entirely self-taught, he

described his style as expressionist-colourist. His works can be found in

public and private collections in the United States, Canada and Europe.

REVIEWS

“Hums with the strength and buoyancy Roy sees in all his landscapes,

throughout Newfoundland… “ - –the Telegram

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Winner of the 2012 Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage and History Award

Finalist, 2012 Best-Atlantic Published Book Award

Triffie and Kit are closer than sisters. But for two girls growing up in a tiny

Newfoundland outport at the dawn of the twentieth century, having the same

dreams and ambitions doesn’t mean life will hand you the same opportunities.

A teacher’s certificate offers Kit the chance to explore the wider world, while

Triffie is left behind, living the life she never wanted with the man she swore

she’d never marry. The letters she and Kit exchange are her lifeline -- until a

long-buried secret threatens to destroy their friendship. That Forgetful Shore

is a story of friendship, love, faith and betrayal.


Trudy Morgan-Cole is a writer and teacher. Her previous works of historical

fiction include The Violent Friendship of Esther Johnson, Deborah and Barak,

and Esther: A Story of Courage. She lives in St. John’s with her husband and

two children, and teaches English, writing, and social studies to adult learners

at The Murphy Centre.

REVIEWS

“That Forgetful Shore uncovers the hidden lives and untold stories of women

and girls with great precision and care, building a gripping novel of love, loss,

and ambition in the first half of the twentieth century.” - Kate Pullinger, author

of The Mistress of Nothing, A Little Stranger, and Weird Sister.

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Prissy Montgomery goes to great lengths to avoid having sex with her

husband, Howie. So when he confesses to having an affair, and requests a

divorce, she shouldn’t be all that surprised. With her fourteen-year-old son in

tow she leaves the comfort of her Toronto home and heads back to Paradise

Bay, her childhood home in Newfoundland. But Prissy’s mother, in an effort to

spare her daughter humiliation, takes out an obituary to announce Howie’s

untimely demise. Prissy is horrified by the deception, especially when her

childhood friend becomes widowed for real. When their son has an altercation

with the law, Howie, the “dead” husband, heads home to help, and his arrival

leaves the town of Paradise Bay reeling, with more questions than answers.

"The Widows of Paradise Bay ends with revelations, resolutions and reconciliations, just like any good down-home story."

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Jill Sooley grew up in Mt. Pearl, NL. She enjoyed a successful career in

public relations first with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, and

later, at a boutique public relations firm in midtown Manhattan. She currently

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resides in Long Island with her husband and children. The Widows of

Paradise Bay is her first novel.

REVIEWS

"Sooley writes about contemporary life in today's Newfoundland in a way that

is absolutely authentic and captures both the pace and concerns of modern

life. This is Jill Sooley's first novel; I certainly hope it's not her last!" - Trudy

Morgan-Cole, Compulsive Overreader

"The Widows of Paradise Bay is a strong debut from Jill Sooley, well-paced,

and stocked with good dialogue and telling details: the plaid bathrobes, the

vinyl tablecloths, the TVs tuned to "The Price is Right... And the mood shifts,

which sometimes even careen from farce to grief to quotidian concerns, are

never out of hand, and instead feel realistic and believable. This is a good

read." - Joan Sullivan, The Telegram

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The fourteen stories in this publication comprise a spectrum of characters and

events that have helped forge an image of an island, its people, and its culture

that is unique and compelling. Heroic deeds, great achievements, hardships

and deprivation, disasters, superstitions and customs, as well as the Beothuk

saga and the indomitable character of our ancestors, have all contributed to

the making of the modern-day Newfoundland and Labrador. Many of these

stories are based on actual events that have occurred over hundreds of years,

while others are purely fictional yet truly reflective of the uniqueness of the

province and its people.


Drodge began his career as a writer following a thirty-four year career in the

computer industry. Born in Little Heart’s Ease, Trinity Bay, he moved to St.

John’s at a very early age where he was raised and educated. He had never

forgotten his outport roots, and had always maintained a great love for the

stories of “olden times."

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If you could take just one thing back… Every Little Thing explores how lives

are shaped by the butterfly effect of decisions that go desperately wrong. After

a shocking family tragedy, Cohen Davies feels isolated, guilty, and numb to

everything except the allure of his new neighbor, Allie Crosbie. She’s a free

spirit, and he sees in her the perfect place to bury his troubles. But when

Allie’s father asks an unfathomable favour, Cohen’s decision to help him sets

off a chain reaction of irrevocable events that leave one man dead, one man

assaulted, and Cohen incarcerated. In the aftermath, Allie will reveal a

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shocking secret of her own. With his award-winning debut, Away From

Everywhere, Chad Pelley showed us his verve as a novelist; Every Little Thing

shows us the flipside of love, and Pelley cuts no corners in exposing how a

secret kept to protect love can just as easily destroy a life.

"Stylistically fresh, taut with emotional torques and charges, Pelley’s Every

Little Thing is can’t-put-it-down compelling." - - Lisa Moore, award-winning

author of February and Alligator


Chad Pelley is an award-winning author, songwriter, and photographer from

St. John’s, Newfoundland. His debut novel, Away from Everywhere, was a

Coles bestseller, won NLAC's CBC Emerging Artist of the Year Award, and

was shortlisted for both the ReLit Award and the Canadian Authors

Association Emerging Artist of the Year Award. It has been adopted by

university courses, and is currently being adapted for film. His short fiction

has been published in journals, textbooks, anthologies, and has been

recognized by close to ten awards. Chad is the founder of Salty Ink, President

of the Writers Alliance of Newfoundland & Labrador, and writes for a variety of

publications, including Quill & Quire, The National Post, and Atlantic Books

Today. As a result, he rarely sees more of the world than his computer

screen, and his hottest one-night stands happen in his own bed, with books of

Canadian fiction.

REVIEWS

From the cold clutch of a prison cell to the serenity of a lover’s arms and back

again, this is the tale of a man whose pugnacious heart is both literally and

figuratively broken. In Every Little Thing Chad Pelley delivers a transfixing

chronicle of what happens when devotion and jealousy ride alongside a

clumsy desire for a just world. Compulsively readable from start to finish. -

Billie Livingston, author of One Good Hustle and Cease to Blush

Chad Pelley's "Every Little Thing" is a compelling ride that shows that even

the unexpected leaves clear footprints. With finely-drawn characters that live

and breathe and clearly feel, it's a marriage of wistful and wonderful, spiced

with a sharp dash of the realities that we all face in life. It's bare honesty,

played hard. - Russell Wangersky, author of Whirl Away

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As Silk Sails entertainingly demonstrates, existing records show that women

of the Atlantic region were owners of boats, ships and waterfront properties

from as early as 1650. Women’s involvement in early fishing adventures as

sole owners and “co-partners in trade” was real and substantial. This sample

of approximately 500 Newfoundland women depicts a hardy, durable and

tenacious woman who was more than equal to the challenges and

opportunities of her time. The study is complemented by interviews with some

of the women who had owned working ships from the 1930s to the 1960s. A

companion volume on more than 1,000 women ship owners of the Maritime

provinces, Ontario and Quebec is in progress.

By the same author: Master Shipbuilders of Newfoundland and Labrador (978-

1-55081-412-5; $19.95)

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Rogers Communication Award for Non-Fiction 2011, Winner

Winner of the 2010 Rogers Communications Award. Sheilagh O’Leary and Rhonda Pelley spent two summers travelling from Bonavista Bay to the Great Northern Peninsula and to the communities of the south coast. The women they interviewed shared unique life stories filled with hard work, love, heartbreak, and family. Island Maid documents, with photos and words, the thoughts and lives of these women. It is also the chronicle of a journey, a feminist road-trip taken during one of the most tumultuous times in

Newfoundland’s modern history.

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

Rhonda Pelley is a Newfoundland writer and artist whose work has been seen

in galleries and publications locally and internationally. She lives in St. John’s

with her partner Frank Barry and her two cats Henry and Lucy.

Sheilagh O’Leary is an award-winning art photographer from St. John’s. She

produces striking collections of black-and-white nudes and portraits with an

intimate exploration of the subject and their relationship to the Newfoundland

landscape. Her previous book, Human Natured: Newfoundland Nudes,

explores almost two decades of her B&W nude photography.

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"This is a book to treasure." - Roberta Buchanan

"Island Maid will leave even the hearest hearts searching for words. This

treasure, for it is truly, is equally fascinating, inspiring, heartbreaking and

artfully-composed." - Telegraph-Journal

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Does the massive Kraken lurk off the coast of Newfoundland? Does Bigfoot

wander our forests and barrens? Have mermaids tempted fishermen in St.

John’s Harbour?

From stories of Native tradition and accounts of early European explorers to

contemporary sightings of predatory big cats and skulking lake monsters,

Here Be Dragons catalogues the strange creatures said to be prowling the

coves and forests of Newfoundland and Labrador. Author Bruce Hynes

combines history, anecdote, and folktale to deliver the unexplained, the

frightening, and the truly unusual in this engaging and thoroughly entertaining

book dedicated to all those who claim to have seen something peculiar

snaking beneath the swells or shifting through the shadows in our own

backyard.


Bruce Hynes was born the son of a blacksmith in Norris Arm, Newfoundland

and Labrador, in 1940. His publications include The Eastport Peninsula: A

People of the Sea and Soil, The Noble Newfoundland Dog, and “One Hundred

Years of Canadian Military Mapping.” Apart from rescuing Newfoundland dogs,

he is a member of the Royal Canadian Legion.

REVIEWS

“Hynes writes engagingly well, and his book shows extensive research. His

commitment to the subject is academic caliber, while his writing style is

relaxed and reader-friendly. Hynes allows himself the occasional wry

comment regarding witness accounts, but he demonstrates serious regard for

his subject. ‘Here Be Dragons’ is a great read, and it’s as informative as it is

enjoyable.” - - The Western Star

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The devastation of the North Atlantic cod stocks, particularly the tremendous

stocks of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Grand Banks, has become an

icon for the unsustainable relation between human exploitation and Nature.

Here, George Rose tells the full story of that devastation, in scientific detail,

for the first time – from the formation of the North Atlantic marine ecosystems

to the massive stock declines in the last half of the 20th century. Politics and

the fisheries are inextricably entwined. In Cod, Rose recounts the many

political influences on the fisheries over several centuries and describes how

neglect from the late 1800s onward led to insufficient scientific knowledge and

little protection for the stocks when massive Euro-Russian fleets targeted the

Grand Banks after World War II, destroying the greatest fishery the world has

known. Cod is no armchair account, but a controversial one that includes

original information on the North Atlantic fisheries.


George Rose is one of Canada’s best known and most respected fisheries

scientists. He is widely considered to be the authority on the Newfoundland

and Labrador cod fishery. He was born in St. John’s, then attended school in

Ontario. He holds degrees in Fisheries and Wildlife Management from the

University of Guelph, in biology from Laurentian University, and holds a

doctorate in biology from McGill University. His main career interests have

been in the fisheries of the North Atlantic and in world-wide conservation,

particularly in Africa, on which he has published over 100 peer reviewed

publications. He lives on Three Island Pond in Paradise, Newfoundland.

REVIEWS

“This is an ambitious effort to tell the entire epic tale…It's a triumph of a book.

Cod is written in plain and lively language. Lushly illustrated and assiduously

researched, it cuts no corners but still deftly manages to weave the

fascinating human history of Newfoundland into the saga of its complex

marine ecology.” - Terry Glavin, Vancouver Sun

"It really is a wonderful book." - Mark Callanan, The Independent

Cod: The Ecological History of the North Atlantic Fishery

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The Newfoundland armed forces suffered devastating losses during World War

I. Known unto God is a memorial to the men in these forces who died during

the war and who have no known graves. The book is also a companion guide

to the Memorial Bronze Tablets that list their names. The tablets were first

unveiled at the Newfoundland Memorial Park in Beaumont-Hamel, France, in

1925. Replicas of the tablets were erected in 2009 in Bowring Park in St.

John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Known unto God celebrates these men’s contributions and includes period

memorabilia and photographs from private and public collections, some of

which have never been published.


Frank Gogos was born and raised in St. John’s, NL. He holds a degree in

history and Newfoundland studies. An ardent historical researcher, he has

covered such topics as Newfoundland and the Great War, culture, and

genealogy, and chases the ghosts of individuals long past.

Morgan MacDonald is an emerging artist/bronze sculptor who has created

The Rower at Quidi Vidi Lake, A Time at George Street, and the replica of the

Bronze Tablets for Bowring Park (all in St. John’s, NL). Born in Corner Brook

and transplanted to St. John’s, MacDonald attended the Visual Arts Program

at Grenfell College, and holds a business degree from Memorial University.

His passion for Newfoundland is evident in all his work.

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This work represents trailblazing artists, dedicated activists, innovative

entrepreneurs – people who made their mark through their work or their

calling. It includes long-loved eccentrics and exceptional young adults who

met with tragedy, as well as those who happened on momentous events and

those who were swept along by them. Together they touch on a myriad of

incidents and adventures significant to the politics, industry and culture of this

province, our country and the world, and leave the gift and legacy of their work

and ideals.

By the same author: In the Field (978-1-55081-391-3; $19.95)


Joan Sullivan is the editor of the Newfoundland Quarterly. As a freelance

Newfoundland Portfolio

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journalist, her interviews, reviews, and commentary have appeared in The

Telegram, The Globe and Mail, and on CBC Radio’s Tapestry. A playwright,

director, and actor, Sullivan has most recently appeared as guest director at

the Grand Bank Regional Theatre Festival and in cahoots with the Document

Theatre Collective in St. John’s.

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A Story of Memoirs In A Corner Boy Remembers, author Frank Kennedy

remembers how times were so different when he was growing up in St. John's.

Containing more than70 photographs, this book recalls many fascinating and

humorous events of the 1930's and 1940's


Award winning photo-journalist, Frank J. Kennedy, worked with the St. John's

Daily News for twenty years before moving to a position as a cameraman with

CBC television, retiring in 1986. Frank started his professional career during

the war years in Gander, Newfoundland.

A Corner Boy Remembers Growing up in St. John's

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• HISTORY / Military / World War I

• 9781550813913

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Rogers Communications Award for Non-Fiction 2013, Short-listed

A soldier dies, a community vanishes…and a story is found.

When Steven Norris—a lieutenant with the famed Royal Newfoundland

Regiment—dies at the battle of Gueudecourt in 1916, his family business is

left without an heir. With the end of the Norris family mill, the once thriving

town of Three Arms disappears.

Almost 90 years later, a high-school theatre class mounts a successful

musical based on the life and death of Steven Norris. When the curtain drops,

a group of actors, teachers, and parents embark on a camping expedition to

Three Arms where they stumble upon the actual artifacts of Norris’s young

life.

A compelling history—part narrative, part documentary, part drama—Joan

Sullivan’s In the Field reminds us how one soldier’s great sacrifice can

resonate long after he has fallen.


J. M. Sullivan is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Globe and

Mail, The Telegram, This Magazine, and on CBC Radio. She also works in

theatre as a director, actor and playwright. She lives in St. John’s with her

daughter, Marianne.

In The Field

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Oct 24, 2012

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• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY /

General

• 9781550813838

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• 173 pages



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At the age of 18, Frank Dyke joined the 59th Heavy Nfld. Regiment and fought

in WWII. In 1955, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and served at a

number of postings including Goose Bay, Fort Churchill, and France. At the

end of his military career, he took a job with the Department of External

Affairs, spending two years at the Embassy in Moscow. Later he was a radio

operator offshore in Venezuela, the North Sea, and on the Ocean Ranger.

After this he began working for the United Nations as a Communications

Director, travelling to Khartoum, Sudan, with the UN World Food Program

during a time of rampant famine. To Be Frank brings to life the most

memorable adventures of this extraordinary Newfoundlander.


Frank Dyke is a retired war veteran. He currently lives in Reidville,

Newfoundland and Labrador, where he enjoys reading, writing, and music. He

has had numerous and varied careers throughout his life that have taken him

to five continents.

J. M. Sullivan is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Globe and

Mail, The Telegram, This Magazine, and on CBC Radio. She also works in

theatre as a director, actor and playwright. She lives in St. John’s with her

daughter, Marianne.

REVIEWS

"Stolid, compassionate, self-assured, Christian, loyal. Frank Dyke would

appear to be a man more formed by the 19th century than the 20th." "[Dyke's]

observations of the enemy show a sensitivity that was rare in those terrible,

tumultuous days, and he weaves together enough personal and historical

detail to produce a vivid, striking portrait of a young, impressionable but

centred soldier caught up in catastrophic events" "A quick and easy read." -

The Telegram, Robin McGrath

To Be Frank Memories of an Extraordinary Newfoundlander

By (author): Frank Dyke Edited by: Joan Sullivan

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• TRANSPORTATION / Ships &

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The fishery, the seal cull, the settlement, the culture—the history of the

province of Newfoundland and Labrador has been shaped and witnessed from

the deck of sea-going vessels, and those vessels were sparred with local

timbers, planked and rigged by the hands of our master shipbuilders. From

east to west, north to south, Calvin Evans covers every coast and bay in a

sweeping chronicle of craftsmanship and productivity. While deftly countering

the outdated argument that our builders were inferior craftsmen, this history is

augmented by exhaustive lists of every builder on record from every corner of

the province. Impeccably researched and contextualized, Calvin Evans’s

Master Shipbuilders of Newfoundland and Labrador offers an indispensable

addition to the story of our past.


Calvin D. Evans is a retired University Librarian. Born in Newfoundland, Evans

has lived and worked in six Canadian provinces, and is the author of two

previous books. For 100 years his family built ships for the Labrador and

Grand Banks fishery, and he has a continuing avid interest in maritime

history.

Master Shipbuilders of Newfoundland and

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• JUVENILE NONFICTION / Comics &

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In the early hours of October 14, 1942, under cover of darkness, the German

submarine U-69 torpedoed and sank the passenger ferry SS Caribou off the

southwest coast of Port aux Basques, Newfoundland. Now, seventy years

later, writer and artist Jennifer Morgan recreates that eventful night in full

colour. These vivid illustrations, in comic book form, bring the history and

aftermath of the Caribou’s final voyage to life for a whole new generation of

readers.


Jennifer Morgan is a visual artist and writer from St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Thomas Moyst, the Second Engineer of the S.S. Caribou, was her great-

grandfather. Although she never met him, Jennifer grew up hearing stories

from her grandmother, Violet Moyst Morgan, her father George Morgan, and

her aunts and uncles. This book is as true as the stories her family told about

the night the Caribou went down.

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"[A]imed at young readers, but the careful historical research, authentic story

and attention to detail are making it popular with all ages.... A haunting

tribute." - Janet McNaughton, best-selling author of The Dragon Seer

Almost Home

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Bullying

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When Isaac the Bob-Tailed Cat, is being beat up by the backyard bullies, Gus

the Seagull, comes to the rescue! Bullies roam the backyards of downtown

St. John’s, scaring and picking on everyone they find. So, when Isaac the

Bob-Tailed Cat moves into a house in the neighbourhood, you know he’ll be

the next target. It’s only by forging an unlikely friendship with Gus, a seagull

who’s afraid of heights, that the two can face their fears and stand up to the

backyard bullies.


Debbie Hanlon is absolutely thrilled with the way audiences have embraced

Gus and Isaac, and she has enjoyed reading their first adventure to thousands

of children from Seoul, Korea, to Birchy Bay, NL. Debbie is an award-winning

business woman, an elected city official, and is totally loving life as a

children’s author/entertainer. She lives in St. John’s, NL, with her husband,

Oral Mews, and her bobtail cat, Isaac!

Grant Boland is a well-known St. John’s artist. Grant has held multiple solo

and group exhibitions, been named the CBC Emerging Artist of the Year, and

has won 2 Elizabeth Greenshields awards for painting. Grant and his three-

year old son, Jack, worked on the images for this book together.

The Adventures of Gus & Isaac Backyard Bullies

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Sam, the colourful sculpin, is different. And on one warm summer day, he

swims through an underwater community teeming with lively fish of all shapes

and sizes. But Sam doesn’t look like anyone else. He feels lonely. Until he

finds Sara, his perfect match, in a world where everyone is different in their

own way. Al Pittman’s classic story, vibrantly illustrated by Shawn O’Hagan,

is a perennial favourite. Breakwater Books is proud to make One Wonderful

Fine Day for a Sculpin Named Sam available in a new edition for a whole new

generation of readers.


Al Pittman was a prolific author of poetry, drama, and children’s literature, and

the winner of many literary awards, including the Stephen Leacock Centennial

Award and the Lydia Campbell Award for Writing. A longtime resident of

Corner Brook, NL, Pittman passed away in 2001, at the age of sixty-one.

Pittman's numerous awards include the Stephen Leacock Centennial Award,

the Lydia Campbell Award for Writing, and the Writers’ Alliance of

Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Poetry.

Shawn O’Hagan was born in Toronto and has made her home in

Newfoundland. She has illustrated seven children’s books including Flights of

Magic by John Steffler, which was nominated for a Governor General’s Award

for Children’s Book Illustration, and Robert Munch’s Get Me Another One.

One Wonderful Fine Day for a Sculpin Named Sam

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• 9781550811636

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A long-cherished children's classic is now back in print! This 25th Anniversary

Collectors Edition of the classic children's book is a new illustrated edition.

It's time for a new generation of children to enjoy this lighthearted collection of

rhymes by the acclaimed poet Al Pittman. All new whimsical illustrations by

Pam Hall dance through the pages with a sublime silliness perfectly balancing

Pittman's rhymes. Her original work was the Winner of the prestigious Amelia

Francis Howard Gibbon Award for best Canadian illustration. The late

acclaimed poet and author, Al Pittman, died on August 26, 2001 at the age of

sixty-one, after a lengthy illness. He was one of Newfoundland's best

contemporary writers. Al built an inte ational reputation over the last 40 years

creating award-winning poetry, plays and scripts for radio and television.

Some of these include the Borestone Mountain Poetry Award, The Canada

Council Arts Award, the Lydia Campbell Award, the Stephen Leacock

Centenial Award, The Writer's Alliance Book Award for Poetry and has been

inducted into the Arts Council's Hall of Honour. Up until his death he was a

Writer in Residence at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in Co er Brook,

Newfoundland.


Al Pittman’s writing has been featured in many publications and has been the

subject of radio, television and film documentaries. He has given public

readings of his work in Canada, the United States and Europe. Among his

many literary awards is the Arts Council’s Lydia Campbell Award for Creative

Writing in 1985, which Pittman was the first to receive, and the Writers’

Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Poetry in 2001. Al

Pittman was inducted into the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council Hall of

Honour in 1999. Al Pittman died in August of 2001 at the age of sixty-one.

REVIEWS

"It's a beauty. Pam Hall's extraordinary paintings of the creatures and their

habitats make this book so new, fresh and delicious." - The Globe & Mail

"With new artwork from Pam Hall, classic characters like Zoro the swordfish

and Sid the Squid return with light-hearted aquatic verses that promise to

open a new watery world to children." - Liam O’Donnell, Canadian Bookseller

Down by Jim Longs Stage Rhymes for children and young fish

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