Best Selling Books by Ian Wallace

Chin Chiang is fearful of shaming his family when he is scheduled to do the dragon''s dance on the first day of the Year of the Dragon.

At Christmastime in Newfoundland, the mummers come disguised to visit Granny.

If you''ve ever woken up thinking ''What was that about?'' This fascinating dream dictionary with over 12,000 definitions will explain everything and help you become your own dream expert. Written by highly respected Dream Psychologist Ian Wallace, this comprehensive guide will help you interpret the imagery you see in your dreams and analyse the hidden meaning and messages within them. By exploring your dreams in this way, you''ll reach a deeper understanding of what you really want in life - and work out how to achieve it. Whether you dream about flying above canyons, your teeth dropping out, missing the bus or standing naked in a crowded room, Ian will help you understand what your unconscious is trying to tell you and how you can use your dreams to help you live a rich and fulfilled life. After all, dream is just a dream until you put it into action ...

Born in 1914, Joe Purdon was one of North America’s early conservationists. After stumbling as a child upon a cluster of Showy Lady’s Slippers in bloom, Joe dedicated his life to protecting these rare orchids. In this picture book, award-winning author and illustrator Ian Wallace depicts how Joe Purdon became a steward of a fragile piece of land in Eastern Ontario. Thanks to his passion, diligence and generosity, the Purdon Conservation Area (now part of the Mississippi Valley Conservation Area) was established in 1982. It is home to one of the largest colonies of Showy Lady’s Slippers in North America.

Renowned children''s book illustrator Ian Wallace brings his masterful ability to paint landscape and his cultural sensitivity to The Huron Carol, a beautiful and unusual song with a rich history. In the early 1600s Father Jean de Brébeuf came to Canada from his native France as a Jesuit missionary. He settled among the Huron, or Ouendat, people in what is now Midland, Ontario. Despite his missionary zeal, Brébeuf was sensitive to the people with whom he lived. He learned their language and he wrote, in Huron, the original version of this famous Christmas carol. He and his fellow priests, called Black Robes, and many of their Huron parishioners were killed in an Iroquois raid in 1649. But Brébeuf''s carol continued to be sung by successive generations of Hurons. Then in 1926, Toronto writer Jesse Edgar Middleton, inspired by Brébeuf, wrote his own version of the carol in English. His are the familiar words we sing today, describing the Huron landscape, flora and fauna in telling the Christmas story. Ian Wallace''s luminous illustrations, set against the dramatic backdrop of Georgian Bay, make this a stunning Christmas gift book. Multilingual versions of the text, the music and a full description of how this carol has come down to us today are included.

James is following in his father''s footsteps, descending deep into the caves below the Atlantic Ocean off of Cape Breton to learn to be a coal miner. Even though James is considered old enough to go to the deeps, his mother cautions him to take care. Coal mining is dangerous work - and the only way his family can earn a living. Readers follow James down into the dark underworld, where he can hear the layers of rock shift around him. Will he survive his first day in the deeps? Beautifully illustrated with textured and shadowy acrylic paintings, Boy of the Deeps vividly illuminates and honors the lives of coal miners.

Josh, newly come to the Yukon, sets out to investigate his friend Gabe''s story that Trapper Jack''s left big toe is in a tobacco tin behind the bar of the Sourdough Saloon.

The kindness of a mother and her two children is repaid by a magician who arrives at Christmas.

Discover the power of dreams, gain the tools to decode them and be inspired to take meaningful actions in waking life to make these come true with renowned psychologist Ian Wallace. You create and encode your dreams to process your emotions and intentions, so the best person to decode them is you. First equip yourself with tips and tricks to remembering them and unpacking their significance. Next, dig into the detail with over 90 dream scenarios. Finally, connect your dreams to waking-life truths to grow self-awareness and address deep-seated desires, fears and intentions – the key to manifesting your goals and realising your potential.

Learn to speak the language of your dreams with this fascinating guide to the 100 most common dreams—why we dream them, what they mean, and how they can help us in everyday lives We all dream, but our dreams often seem to be bizarre and confusing experiences that make little sense to us, no matter how much we try to analyze them. The true key to understanding our dreams is looking beyond individual symbols—and being able to see the bigger picture in the stories that we choose to create every night. There are one hundred dream themes that are consistently reported by dreamers around the world, regardless of country or culture. These dreams appear again and again because they reflect fundamental life patterns. This guide will help you recognize these common one hundred dreams, enabling you to achieve a much deeper understanding of your dreams and yourself.

For seven generations the men of Duncan''s family have fished in broad wooden boats off the coast of Newfoundland. But those days are over. The cod have disappeared from the North Atlantic, and the longliners no longer return with rich bounties from the sea. Many fishermen have left to find work. Duncan''s father is trying to stay put, in the place where he and his family have lived forever...but time and money are running out. Will the family have to leave their home? Or is there another way -- Duncan''s way? Striking watercolors by Ian Wallace perfectly capture the rugged beauty of the North Atlantic coast. In equally deft strokes, his words chart the emotional journey of a boy and his family caught in a life crisis.

Ian Wallace, one of Canada’s best-known children’s book creators, invites us to look inside his cabinet of curiosities, which contains treasures from his decades of traveling the country from sea to sea to sea, sharing stories with young readers. Over the past forty years, Ian Wallace has made thousands of school and library visits in tiny communities, towns and huge cities all across this land. Some of these visits have inspired young readers to become artists themselves; others have moved children to speak or act in new ways; others have simply given rise to the laughter and sheer delight that come from a good book. In return, Ian has been the recipient of many gifts himself, from the wide range of experiences he has had to the mementos made by young children or artists in the communities he has visited. All these gifts come together in his cabinet of curiosities — an eclectic and personal collection that nonetheless represents and appreciates our rich and varied land. Each double-page illustration shows a shelf in the cabinet dedicated to a province or territory with the gifts or special memories Ian has from that place — tamarack geese made by Cree artists in northern Ontario, a fishing-stage facade from Newfoundland, the giant Douglas fir trees in Cathedral Grove on Vancouver Island, and much more. Always experimenting with new techniques, Ian has illustrated the entire book in delicate graphite pencil, achieving stunning light and shadow. This is a beautiful and unusual contribution to Canada’s 150th birthday. Key Text Features table of contents introduction illustrator’s notes references Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.1 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

Though from different generations, Mavis and Merna develop a lifelong friendship after Merna''s husband dies.

"Dr. Orpheus finds a future Earthworld caught in a double-destructive pincers between benign enslavement by the miracle drug Anagonon and hideous enslavement by invaders from a far galaxy. To meet this twofold threat, Croyd must exercise his amazing abilities to the fullest, resorting to time travel, mind transfers, and a breathtakingly swift shell game of body transpositions, all the while battling the greatest odds he has ever faced..."--Page [4] of cover.

When a sculptor moves in to the farm next door, young Tom is inspired to become an artist.

One hot summer night, Brando and his parents sleep outside on the porch, but Brando is awakened by a mysterious cat who takes him on a wild adventure.

"Pan Sagittarius conducts a mission to the legendary if-nodes of Antan - the center of time and space where unrealized histories are stored. His assignment: to enter the mind of a key person in a historically crucial moment to affect his host''s motivation (without forcing his choices) to make possible an alternative outcome"--www.goodreads.com.