• 2010
  • 24m
Great Canadian Books

Summary Great Canadian Books celebrates wonderful books in a uniquely entertaining way. Every episode features a personality such as Mary Walsh, Valerie Pringle, and Justin Trudeau presenting a favourite book. In addition to the engaging readings, the show highlights animations, original art, and gorgeously filmed landscapes that make each episode a treat for the eyes and mind. View more details

  • 2010
  • 24m

Great Canadian Books

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Lorne Cardinal Mary Walsh Patricia O'Callaghan Amy Sky

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jan 16, 2010

Countries of origin : Canada

Language : English

Filming locations : Midland, Ontario, Canada

Production companies : TickleScratch Productions

Summary Great Canadian Books celebrates wonderful books in a uniquely entertaining way. Every episode features a personality such as Mary Walsh, Valerie Pringle, and Justin Trudeau presenting a favourite book. In addition to the engaging readings, the show highlights animations, original art, and gorgeously filmed landscapes that make each episode a treat for the eyes and mind. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jan 16, 2010

Countries of origin : Canada

Language : English

Filming locations : Midland, Ontario, Canada

Production companies : TickleScratch Productions

Episodes

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Episode 1 • Jan 16, 2010
Hard Light
In this episode of Great Canadian Books, Mary Walsh is engaging, entertaining, and thoroughly a pleasure as she celebrates Hard Light by Michael Crummey a powerful series of short stories and poems about the people of Conception Bay.
Episode 2 • Jan 23, 2010
Who Has Seen the Wind
In this episode of Great Canadian Books, well-known television personality Valerie Pringle celebrates 'Who Has Seen The Wind', the classic novel by W. O. Mitchell.
Episode 3 • Jan 30, 2010
Stunt
Dancer and television personality Rex Harrington celebrates Stunt, the quirky first novel of Claudia Dey.
Episode 4 • Feb 06, 2010
This Can't Be Happening at MacDonald Hall
Justin Trudeau celebrates the book that turned him on to reading: 'This Can't Be Happening At MacDonald Hall' by Gordon Korman, a wonderfully funny story that appeals to the adolescent in all of us.
Episode 5 • Feb 13, 2010
The Golden Spruce
Valerie Pringle celebrates The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant, an incredibly riveting true story of a man who cuts down a one in a billion tree sacred to the Haida people.
Episode 6 • Feb 20, 2010
Birth House
Olympic medal winner Silken Laumann celebrates The Birth House by Ami McKay, a moving novel set on the Bay of Fundy coast in Nova Scotia.
Episode 7 • Feb 27, 2010
Late Nights on Air
Actress Lisa Ray celebrates the award winning novel Late Nights On Air by Elizabeth Hay. The northern setting and the engaging characters are two of the reasons that Ray has chosen this book.
Episode 8 • Mar 06, 2010
The Diviners
On any 'best' list of great novels, The Diviners by Margaret Laurence is at or near the top. Actress and television personality Mary Walsh celebrates this notoriously brilliant book that she has read many times over.
Episode 9 • Mar 13, 2010
Coming Through Slaughter
Musician Patricia O'Callaghan celebrates Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje, the fictionalized story of a real jazz cornetist who ends up going mad.
Episode 10 • Mar 20, 2010
Fugitive Pieces
Singer/songwriter Amy Sky celebrates Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels, a book whose gorgeously poetic writing and powerful emotional story has won much international recognition.
Episode 11 • Dec 31, 1969
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Episode 12 • Apr 03, 2010
Whale Music
Few books articulate the creative experience with as much humour and truth as Whale Music by Paul Quarrington which is one of the reasons Patricia O'Callaghan has chosen the book for this episode.
Episode 13 • Apr 10, 2010
Three Day Road
Lorne Cardinal hosts this episode of Great Canadian Books, reading from Joseph Boyden's "Three Day Road". This novel follows the journey of two young Cree men, Xavier and Elijah, who volunteer for that war and become snipers during the conflict.
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