Canadian, Aboriginal

Delaronde, Deborah. 2004. Friendship Bay. Winnipeg, MB: Pemmican Publications Inc. ISBN: 1-894717-24-4
Age: 6 - 10
Language: English
Subject: Children; Fiction; Metis

A lone duckling wonders how he can be friends with other species that are so different from him. His mother helps him to see the things they have in common. A science lesson about mallards is woven into the story.

Canadian, Aboriginal

Delaronde, Deborah. Illustrator/ Gary Chartrand. 2003. Flour Sack Friends. Winnipeg, MB: Pemmican Publications Inc. ISBN: 1-894717-18-X
Age: 6 - 10
Language: English
Subject: Children; Fiction; Metis

When Flora hears that her family is going to town shopping, she is very excited. She wants to look at dolls so that she can ask her grandmother to sew one for her. She takes her pet frog with her, and as a result ends up with a piece of flannel. Grandmother uses the flannel and flour sacks to make a doll for Flora.

Canadian, Aboriginal

Delaronde, Deborah. Illustrator/ Gary Chartrand. 2001. Flour Sack Flora. Winnipeg, MB: Pemmican Publications Inc. ISBN: 1-894717-05-8
Age: 6 - 10
Language: English
Subject: Children; Fiction; Metis

Flora wants a new dress so that she can leave her Metis community and go to town with her parents. Flora’s grandmother makes her a new dress from some floursacks and decorates it with ribbons.