The Little Coat: The Bob and Sue Elliott Story by Alan J. Buick
Honourable Mention, Biography,
2010 Hollywood Book Festival The Little Coat
tells the true story of Bob Elliott, a Canadian tank commander in the
Second World War, and Sussie Cretier, a Dutch girl who became a good-luck
charm and beacon of hope for the Canadian troops stationed in the town
where her family sought refuge from the Nazis. On Christmas Day 1944, the
Canadians honoured their little adopted soldier with a special Army-style
coat they ordered from a local seamstress. Decades later, the relationship
between Sussie (Sue) and Bob not only endured but flourished. Sussie’s
‘little coat’ has been donated to the War Museum of Canada as a
permanent reminder of this powerful story of courage, hope and love.
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Compiled and Edited by Deana J. Driver This fascinating book contains 100 short stories written by the late Walter Williams, a ‘character’ and former resident of Kerrobert, SK. who owned an International Harvester dealership and loved to fly his small airplane to help people in need. He landed in farmers' fields in snow storms and fog, picking up pregnant women or injured children and transporting them to the nearest hospital. He also flew doctors, RCMP officers, corpses, books and friends to many communities in west central Saskatchewan and east central Alberta. ISBN 978-0-9810394-2-8 240 pages/51 photos $21.95 + 5% GST In
honour of Walter Williams, a donation of $1,500 from Prairie Pilot
books sold
THE JOURNEY OF PARALYMPIAN COLETTE BOURGONJE By Mary Harelkin Bishop In June 1980, with her high school graduation just around the corner, Colette Bourgonje was a small-town girl with big dreams. She had already recorded great successes in track and field, basketball, volleyball and badminton and was on the road to becoming a world-class athlete. Then a car accident changed her life – forever. Colette did not let her new circumstances as a paraplegic stand in her way. She became the first disabled student to graduate from the College of Physical Education at the University of Saskatchewan and she competed in her first Paralympic Games at age 30. Now, 18 years later, she has became one of Canada's most successful disabled athletes. As a teacher and world-class athlete, Colette Bourgonje is a role model and an inspiration. At the 2010 Canadian Paralympic Games, she made Canadian history and was honoured for her remarkable attitude.
ISBN 978-0-9810394-4-2 160 pages/52 photos $16.95 + 5% GST $1 from every Moving Forward book sold will be donated to
support by Deana J. Driver
Never
Give Up "We can all learn from Ted's inspiring, remarkable story. I am
privileged to have been the one to write Ted's story and I am pleased that
Never Give Up has been honoured with these book
awards." * * *
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JDC Productions for a
discount on bulk orders of the Never Give Up book for schools.
the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation You are invited to make your own donation at www.cbcf.org
The Never Give Up Teacher Workbook has been created to accompany the award-winning motivational biography Never Give Up: Ted Jaleta's Inspiring Story. Created by Tracy Jones (Bourne) with additions and editing by Deana Driver, the 97-page downloadable Teacher Workbook, in a handy 8.5 x 11-inch-page format, assists students in studying the contents of Never Give Up one chapter at a time from either an English or Social Studies perspective and includes answer pages for ease of instruction. See excerpts of the Teacher Workbook. The Teacher Workbook is in a pdf format, downloadable upon receipt of payment. 
Buy
Never Give Up Teacher Workbook $14.95
+ GST
Finalist, Children's Literature,
2009 Saskatchewan Book Awards Seeds of Hope is the latest award-winning novel from the best-selling author of the Tunnels of Moose Jaw Adventures including Next Stop – Chicago. Seeds of Hope tells the story of 10-year-old Danny, who loves the farm and the prairie and wants to be a farmer. Danny wishes the town bully would just leave him alone, though. Not only that, but Papa and Grandpa are talking about selling and moving away. Danny is worried. Are things that bad on the farm? What if Papa decides to sell? What will happen to Danny and his family? ISBN 978-0-9810394-1-1 176 pages $10.95 + GST
Through her entertaining short stories and heartwarming poems, author Ricki Segal celebrates the caring and peculiar ways of her Jewish Canadian family through the generations. From her own hilarious growing-up incidents in Winnipeg, MB, with mistletoe and tampons to her Zayde (Grandfather) Louis Lazar’s unorthodox practice of relieving himself on the front lawn, My Zayde and Other Memories of Growing Up Jewish will make you laugh, cry and think about your own quirky loved ones. ISBN
978-0-9810394-0-4
104 pages/48 photos $16.95 + 5% GST
$2
from every My
Zayde book sold will be donated
to
Just a Bunch of Farmers is a story of entrepreneurship and perseverance. Tired of politicians and bureaucrats determining their fate, a group of southeastern Saskatchewan farmers took matters into their own hands in 1975 and, despite opposition and some near disasters, built a unique innovative grain-handling facility to improve their own future. The book outlines some of the turmoil surrounding the Weyburn Inland Terminal (W.I.T.) over its first 25 years, including a construction lien, contract disputes and a major split in the founding fathers in 1998. Weyburn Inland Terminal Ltd. was the first inland grain terminal in Canada
to be completely owned and operated by farmers. It amassed an
impressive list of 14 ‘firsts’ in its first quarter century, including being the
first in Canada to do protein testing, cleaning and drying of grain on the
Prairies as well as the first in Canada to build grain condominiums to use
as farmer-owned storage units. WIT was the first to pay farmers for the
refuse in their grain and the first to win the Canadian Wheat Board
‘Quality First’ award for excellence in grain-handling.
* * * Readers have said: "I really like the way you let the people tell the story in their own words." "I couldn't put it down. I read all night." "I didn't know they were in that much trouble in those early years
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PRAIRIE
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Moving Forward
Never
Give Up: Ted Jaleta's Inspiring
Story
Never
Give Up
Teacher Workbook
Seeds
of Hope: A Prairie Story
My
Zayde
and Other Memories of Growing Up
Jewish
Just a Bunch of Farmers: