New Releases by Leo Yerxa

Winner of the Governor General''s Award A beautiful and visionary book, Ancient Thunder celebrates wild horses and the natural world of the prairies. Using an extraordinary technique, Leo Yerxa, an artist of Ojibway ancestry, makes paper look like leather, so that his illustrations seem to be painted on leather shirts. The art is accompanied by a rich song of praise for the wild horses that came to play such an important role in the lives of the First Peoples. Years in the making, the book is truly a work of art -- one that reflects Yerxa''s sense of nature and the place of the First Peoples within it.

When life in the underwater garden grows tiresome, a young fish decides to explore the surface world.

In this beautiful book for juveniles, Leo Yerxa''s color-drenched watercolors & shimmering stenciled pastels vividly evoke the magical underwater garden. The offbeat parable he tells is engaging & humorous. When you''re a young fish among many, & a dart-school failure, life in the underwater garden grows tiresome. And what of these stories about the surface world, told by the old fuddie-duddies? Stories of hooks, cooks & fishing rods, rivers of gold, & humans who can swallow you whole -- are they true? When our hero is enticed to the surface to investigate by the ne''er-do-well Jack, he quickly learns that these stories are all too true & even finds the answer to his perennial question: Why am I a small fry?Ó

An Indian parent and child move through the forest and over a pond as nature passes from fall to winter.