Canadian Stars

Martha Lamon is a freelance writer and researcher based in Huntsville,
Ontario.

Each volume in the Scholastic Canada Biographies series tells the life
stories of five Canadians, from the past or present. Some are well
known, others are not, but they are all remarkable for their
achievements.

Canadian Leaders features Sir John A. Macdonald (“Our First Prime
Minister”), Joseph Brant (“A Mohawk Chief”), Sir Sam Steele (“A
Man of Action and Duty”), Pierre Trudeau (“A Leader of Vision”),
and Jeanne Mance (“The Angel of the Colony”). Canadian Inventors
focuses on the lives of Alexander Graham Bell (“The Inventor of the
Telephone”), Rachel Zimmerman (“The Inventor of the Blissymbol
Printer”), James Naismith (“The Inventor of Basketball”), Mike
Lazaridis (“The Blackberry Inventor”), and Joseph-Armand Bombardier
(“The Inventor of the Snowmobile”). Singers Shania Twain and Céline
Dion, and actors Tom Jackson, Michael J. Fox, and Mike Myers are the
famous biographies in Canadian Stars.

The two other volumes in the series are Canadian Pioneers, which covers
Marie-Anne Gaboury, Louis Hébert, Susanna Moodie, John Crysler, and
Wasyl Eleniak, and Canadian Greats, which looks at Billy Bishop, Laura
Secord, Wayne Gretzky, Nellie McClung, and Frederick Banting.

A brief, easy-to-read chapter chronicles the life of each individual.
The text is presented in large type and supplemented with numerous
pictures and colourful illustrations that help give context to the
achiever’s life. The stories are engaging and will give children in
Grades 1 to 4 a fine introduction to many notable Canadians. The series
will make an excellent addition to both school and public library
collections. Highly recommended.