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Tundra Books is the oldest children's book publisher in Canada. [1]Tundra Books was founded in 1967 by May Cutler, a Montreal-based writer and editor.Cutler established the publishing company in the basement of her home, [2] becoming the first woman to publish children's books in Canada. [2]
Pages in category "Tundra Books books" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. After (Chalifour book) B.
Kady MacDonald Denton (born 22 July 1941) is a Canadian creator of children's books, primarily an illustrator of picture books. [ a ] She observed in 2011 that "I'm in that quickly-shrinking group of illustrators who doesn’t use a computer at any stage in the illustration process."
In the early 1980s, she moved to the 3HO live-in yoga centre in Montreal. [ 5 ] Although she published a short story in the Carolina Quarterly as Marcia Schonfeld [ 6 ] in 1972, her first entry into the publishing world as Dayal Kaur Khalsa took place when she was introduced to May Cutler , publisher and president of Tundra Books .
Mowat's next book, the children's book Lost in the Barrens (1956), won a Governor General's Award. [2] [27] In 1963, Mowat wrote a possibly fictionalised account of his experiences in the Canadian Arctic with Arctic wolves entitled Never Cry Wolf (1963). [4] In 1985, Mowat started a book tour of the United States to promote Sea of Slaughter.
The city is located on the Taymyr peninsula and near the mouth of the Khatanga River, [1] [4] in what was once an okrug but is now a district.It is in the far arctic north of Krasnoyarsk Krai, where indigenous people, such as Nenets, live in the northern taiga, tree line, and tundra eco-regions. [5]
The arctic tundra often lacks sunshine. Summer days last 24 hours, yet the sun remains low on the horizon. During the winter, the opposite occurs, and the entire landscape is dark.
Since the tundra has such a harsh environment, the animals who live here have adapted in a way to call the tundra their home. The keystone species of the tundra can be as small as a lemming to as large as a musk ox. The low biodiversity means that fluctuation in individual animals can substantially affect the entire ecosystem.