Winner of the 2004 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian children's non-fiction
Honor Book for the Society of School Librarians International's Best Book Award -- Social Studies, Grades 7-12
Shortlisted for the Children's Literature Roundtable Information Book of the Year
2003 winner of the Mr. Christie's Book Award Seal
Shortlisted for the 2004 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-fiction
Included on VOYA's ninth annual Nonfiction Honor List
Selected for inclusion in CCBC Choices 2004:the best-of-the-year list published by the Cooperative Children's Book center of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Named Notable Book by the International Reading Association's Children's Book Award in the intermediate nonfiction category
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Winner of the 2004 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian children's non-fiction
Honor Book for the Society of School Librarians International's Best Book Award -- Social Studies, Grades 7-12
Shortlisted for the Children's Literature Roundtable Information Book of the Year
2003 winner of the Mr. Christie's Book Award Seal
Shortlisted for the 2004 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-fiction
Included on VOYA's ninth annual Nonfiction Honor List
Selected for inclusion in CCBC Choices 2004: the best-of-the-year list published by the Cooperative Children's Book center of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Named Notable Book by the International Reading Association's Children's Book Award in the intermediate nonfiction category
Road maps; sailor's charts; quilts; songlines; gilded parchment covered with jewel-like colors; computer printouts -- to...