Canadian Home Based Learning
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Have you read a Canadian book of children's fiction that you'd like to recommend to other homelearners? Let us know so we can add it to this page!

We'll also list here children's books that were written or illustrated by Canadian homelearners or their parents, and Canadian children's books recommended by home educators for their literary merit, informative/educational content, or homelearning characters.

A Real Farm Girl

This illustrated children's novel for ages 8-10 was written by Susan Ioannou from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It tells about a 1940s city girl's first encounter with life on the farm.

http://www3.sympatico.ca/susanio/novel.html

Julia

by Munira Judith Avinger
illustrated by Lisa Neulicht
published by Borealis Press Ltd., Ottawa, 2003
ISBN 0-88887-271-2
$15.95 CAN, 193 pages
www.munirabooks.com/Julia-English.html
www.borealispress.com/julia.shtml

A story about a 13-year-old homeschooler living with her parents in the woods in Quebec, where she befriends a tree, a fawn and another homeschooler, and embarks on an inner journey of spiritual discovery.

See our review for a fuller description.

Ryan's Giant

picture book written by Allen Morgan
illustrated by home educator Marian Buchanan
1992
ISBN 1-895092-02-7
Oasis Press
38 Nina St
Toronto ON M5R 1Z4
www.allenmorgan.com

Three stories: The Giant Who Liked Bad Dreams (Ryan makes friends with a giant who wants to buy his bad dreams); The Giant and the Dinosaur (The giant finds a frozen dinosaur and thaws him out... but then needs to find him something to eat); Dinosaur Doughnuts (The dinosaur is hiding and Ryan and the giant have to lure him out with a special "doughnut").