New Release Books by Gail Edwards

This book offers readers a unique look into the images created by Digital Composite Artist and Instructor Gail Edwards. You will notice how she constructs each image from the soft backgrounds to making the spirit of each character come alive. It will have you itching to create your very own masterpieces!

The study of children's illustrated books is located within the broad histories of print culture, publishing, the book trade, and concepts of childhood. An interdisciplinary history, Picturing Canada provides a critical understanding of the changing geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of Canadian identity, as seen through the lens of children's publishing over two centuries. Gail Edwards and Judith Saltman illuminate the connection between children's publishing and Canadian nationalism, analyse the gendered history of children's librarianship, identify changes and continuities in narrative themes and artistic styles, and explore recent changes in the creation and consumption of children's illustrated books. Over 130 interviews with Canadian authors, illustrators, editors, librarians, booksellers, critics, and other contributors to Canadian children's book publishing, document the experiences of those who worked in the industry. An important and wholly original work, Picturing Canada is fundamental to our understanding of publishing history and the history of childhood itself in Canada.

This comprehensive reference work contains approximately 18,000 English- and French-language abbreviations, initialisms, and acronyms commonly used in Canada. The bilingual, alphabetical listings include phrases from the fields of business, finance, the arts, government, academia, entertainment, and the military. Each entry is accompanied by a definition, an alternative language translation and cross-reference if necessary, relevant information about the founding and expiration of the organization, and useful explanatory notations. In addition to abbreviations that are specifically relevant to Canadian institutions, the resource also lists general abbreviations that are widely seen and used in Canada, as well as those of international organizations and institutions of which Canada is a member.