HappyCanadaDay

Meet Canadian Authors and Illustrators: 50 Creators of Children's Books | Allison Gertridge

Thanks to everyone who played my #HappyCanadaDay Challenge! It was so much fun to grow my TBR with all your great picks and dream about all the Canadian foods I miss. ❤️🇨🇦🍩😄

And the lucky winner is @Megabooks ! Congrats!!!

Send me an email at kristinevandusen at gmail dot com so we can work out the details of getting your book to you.

Hope all had a fun Canada Day and to my American friends Happy 4th!! 🎉🇺🇸

squirrelbrain Yay! Congratulations @Megabooks ! 🎉🎉🎉 4y

Bookwormjillk 👏👏👏 4y

Megabooks Omg!! Thank you!! 🇨🇦🇨🇦❤️ 4y

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Megabooks Just sent you an email 👍🏻 4y

Cinfhen Yay!!!! Congrats @Megabooks ♥️♥️♥️ 4y

Hooked_on_books I love the use of the Canadian flag hat to draw the name. Perfect! 4y

KVanRead @Hooked__on__books Thanks! I love a theme.😊🇨🇦 4y

erzascarletbookgasm Congrats @Megabooks ! 👏 4y

LeahBergen Woohoo, @Megabooks ! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 4y

Megabooks @squirrelbrain @Bookwormjillk @Cinfhen @Hooked_on_books @erzascarletbookgasm @LeahBergen thanks everyone!! Very excited for my prize!! And thank you so much again for this generous, fun contest @KVanRead !! 🇨🇦🇨🇦 4y

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Lindy

Cereus Blooms at Night | Shani Mootoo

1. Hard to pick faves because I‘m such a CanLit fan, but I‘ve tagged the one I‘ve reread most often.
2. Helen Humphreys (and I‘m excited about her new one coming out next month)
3. Butter tarts (with saskatoon berries instead of raisins)
#happycanadaday
Kristine, thanks for hosting this giveaway @KVanRead

shawnmooney, twohectobooks, ReadingEnvy

batsy Ooh, Helen Humphreys! I'd forgotten or I would have mentioned The Lost Garden 💚 4y

KVanRead Thanks for playing! Great choices and butter tarts with Saskatoon berries sound divine! 4y

Cathythoughts Exciting recommendations ✨✨✨ 4y

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LeahBergen Oh how I love butter tarts. ❤️❤️❤️ 4y

ReadingEnvy Butter tarts were the fav of the Canadian goodies I made! 4y

Lindy @ReadingEnvy Did I miss your Canadian goodies cook-off? Is it on your baking blog? 4y

Lindy @batsy There are just too many favourites! I‘m still thinking about my top 6 of 2020 so far. 4y

Lindy @LeahBergen Which team are you on? with raisins or without raisins? 😉 4y

Lindy @KVanRead Saskatoons can be a little dry, but that‘s not a problem when immersed in butter tarts. 😁 4y

Lindy @Cathythoughts There are plenty more where these came from. 😉 4y

LeahBergen Well, it‘s funny... I prefer without raisins if I buy them but when I make this mini tart recipe that I have, I add a few raisins. 😆 4y

Lindy @LeahBergen So you‘re saying you need to be in control of the quantity of raisins. Got it. 🍇 4y

LeahBergen That must be it! 😆 4y

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Billypar

What's Bred in the Bone | Robertson Davies

#HappyCanadaDay all!
Thanks for the tag @batsy
1. Tagged - discovered this author when mentioned in an interview by #2
2. Margaret Atwood
3. I don't know too many Canadian foods, but I'll echo maple syrup and salmon that others said. I visited Montreal last year and loved the cafes- it was there I discovered you can get decafe espresso. So I know decafe americanos aren't Canadian but in my head they remain a Montreal delicacy 😅
@KVanRead

Billypar Tagging @Centique if you want to join in 4y

Josee.lit.a.lu.et.lira ?? Décaf Américano also ? Did not know it was a MTL thing ? 4y

Billypar @Josee.a.lu.lit.et.lira Ha, I know who knew right? 😁 4y

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batsy I have Fifth Business by Robertson Davies thanks to @merelybookish and I really should get to it! He's been on my radar for ever so long. 4y

Billypar @batsy Yeah, that one is on my TBR as well. Though I have to answer the eternal question of, do I finish the trilogy that I already started first, or go rogue? 4y

KVanRead @Billypar Davies is a Canadian institution! And I don‘t know about decaf americanos, but Montréal definitely has the best coffee in Canada. Thanks for playing! 4y

Billypar @KVanRead That's easy to believe about Montreal based on my trip. Thanks for organizing this giveaway/Canadian tribute! 4y

Cathythoughts Loved your answers 👍🏻❤️ 4y

LeahBergen Good ol‘ Robertson Davies. 👏🏻 4y

Centique Thanks Vinnie. I will put my thinking cap on! I haven‘t read Robertson Davies yet either @batsy and I think I have the same book on my shelf 😋 4y

Billypar @Cathythoughts Thanks 🙂 I need to read more Canadian lit- a good day for expanding the TBR. 4y

Billypar @LeahBergen This is the only one I've read of his but it won't be my last! 4y

Billypar @Centique Looking forward to seeing your choices! 🇨🇦 4y

CarolynM Tagged book is a favourite of mine. I had completely forgotten Davies was Canadian 🙄 4y

Billypar @CarolynM I'm surprised he's not read more widely - he's often missing from the shelves in U.S. bookstores. 4y

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squirrelbrain

The High Mountains of Portugal: A Novel | Yann Martel

#happycanadaday

Thanks for the tag @BarbaraBB and for the chance to join in your fab giveaway @KVanRead !

1. Tagged book - I read this recently and really liked it.
2. LM Montgomery
3. None of it actually ‘Canadian‘ but we visited Vancouver in 1998 (honeymoon) and 2003 (5th anniversary) and came across so many foods that weren‘t yet popular in the UK.... blueberries, juicing, sandwich wraps, curly fries and Starbucks! 🤪😳

AlaMich I don‘t know why I think this, but blueberries seem like a thing that the UK would have had in abundance. 4y

squirrelbrain It‘s one of the most popular fruits now @AlaMich, although a lot still imported. (Can you tell I‘ve just looked that up?!) Back then though, we‘d hardly even heard of them! 4y

AlaMich I didn‘t know that they are native to N. America (I just looked it up, too!). I guess that might explain it. In any case, they are delicious! 😊 4y

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BarbaraBB Great story of the blueberry. I don‘t remember when they made their way into the Netherlands but I DO remember that kiwi‘s and aubergine were new on the market! So exotic 😉 4y

KVanRead Thanks for playing! Blueberries are actually a great choice. Lac St Jean Québec is famous for its blueberries and the people there even have the nickname les bluets. And there‘s the Veloroute de Lac St Jean (Blueberry Route)! 4y

squirrelbrain How lovely @KVanRead - thanks for letting me know! Blueberries for breakfast totally blew our minds back then! 4y

LeahBergen I didn‘t know that blueberries weren‘t popular in the UK back then! 😮 4y

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thegirlwiththelibrarybag

Undermajordomo Minor: A Novel | Patrick DeWitt

Happy Canada Day! I was tagged by @runswithscissors007

I‘m a huge Patrick deWitt fan - and was lucky to see him when he visited Melbourne for a Writers Festival in 2019... (remember writers festivals!?)

Apparently Peanut Butter was officially patented by Gilmore Edson of Canada in 1884... I mean - it‘s no Vegemite - but it is pretty good... THANKS CANADA!!

#HappyCanadaDay : play along if you feel so inclined

KVanRead

Cathythoughts Oh I loved French Exit ❤️👍🏻 4y

KVanRead Thanks for playing! Loved

The Sisters Brothers

thegirlwiththelibrarybag @KVanRead, I‘ve been holding out on that one - keeping it for a rainy day! 4y

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thegirlwiththelibrarybag @Cathythoughts, same - it was brilliant and weird which is one of my favourite things ☺️ 4y

runswithscissors007 Well! So glad I tagged you I did not know that Patrick DeWitt was Canadian; same for peanut butter!!! 4y

AlaMich Interesting...American kids (or at least those of my generation) are taught that George Washington Carver, who was born into slavery, invented PB. I never heard of DeWitt before now, and I just googled him. They lied to us! (edited) 4y

thegirlwiththelibrarybag @AlaMich, not knowing anything about it - I literally googled ‘foods you didn‘t know where Canadian‘ and completely believed what I read without checking it further... deWitt is amazing tho! (edited) 4y

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erzascarletbookgasm

Meet Canadian Authors and Illustrators: 50 Creators of Children's Books | Allison Gertridge

Thanks for the tag, @Cathythoughts 😘

#HappyCanadaDay @KVanRead is hosting a fun giveaway. Thanks for the opportunity.
🇨🇦
1. Alias Grace.
2. Louise Penny.
3. I don‘t know many...maple syrup and Smarties, maybe?

Tagging @batsy , I think you used to study in Canada?

KVanRead Thanks for playing! Smarties 💚💛💙❤️ 4y

batsy Yes! good memory 😁 4y

LeahBergen Smarties are the best! 4y

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Cinfhen

Women Talking: A Novel | Miriam Toews

#HappyCanadaDay to all my Canadian Littens 🇨🇦and thanks to @KVanRead for this fun giveaway ❤️1. Tagged book was brilliant 2. Emily St. John Mandel and the lovely Margaret Atwood 3.Timbits 🍩, Eh? I‘ll tag the wonderful @TheKidUpstairs who introduced me to Tim Hortons wayyy back when I only knew Dunkin Doughnuts existed😜

KVanRead Thanks for playing! ❤️me some Timmy‘s😋 4y

LeahBergen My husband‘s name is Tim so you know we‘ve had some fun with the whole Timbits name. 😂 4y

Hooked_on_books I hadn‘t thought of Timbits! I love the chocolate ones. 😋 4y

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Cinfhen Hilarious @LeahBergen 😂 4y

Cinfhen Yup @Hooked_on_books @KVanRead Nothing like a box of Timbits .... oh God, now I‘m thinking about @LeahBergen comment 😜😜😆 4y

Hooked_on_books Oh dear. 😳 Puts a whole new spin on “I love the chocolate ones.” 😆 4y

Cinfhen Hahahaha @Hooked_on_books 4y

LeahBergen @Hooked_on_books @Cinfhen 🤣😂🤣 4y

rabbitprincess @LeahBergen LOL!!!! 😂😂😂😂 4y

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runswithscissors007

The Paper Bag Princess | Robert N. Munsch, Michael Martchenko

🇨🇦 famous last words
🇨🇦Thomas king
🇨🇦 Caesar or butter tarts
Thanks for the tag @suvata always fun!
#happycanadaday

As an aside... the password for my lap top is maple syrup

@KVanRead

Late in the day but I tag Hmmmmmm! Everyone I know who is canadian has already done this!!!
How about @thegirlwiththelibrarybag since she is doing the #heycarrots tag!!!

thegirlwiththelibrarybag *starts researching Canadian authors and foods* 4y

runswithscissors007 @thegirlwiththelibrarybag lol! I thought it might be too late for you to see this but I guess it is already tomorrow for you! 4y

KVanRead Thanks for playing! I‘m so happy someone tagged a Robert Munsch! I love him!!!❤️ Also I would kill for a butter tart right now 😂😋 4y

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KVanRead Also @thegirlwiththelibrarybag not drawing a winner til Saturday so it‘s not to late to post if you wish. 😊 4y

runswithscissors007 @KVanRead there‘s a winner!!!!???? 😲 4y

KVanRead Oh ya @runswithscissors007 somehow that didn‘t make it to all the reposts but I will do a drawing on Saturday and the winner will get a CanLit book of their choice😊 4y

runswithscissors007 @KVanRead that is so generous! 4y

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melissajayne

Alias Grace: A Novel | Margaret Atwood

1. Have read the book twice and watched the Netflix miniseries
2. Louise Penny
3. Salmon. Having a grandpa who loved to fish, I had a lot of it growing up during the summer months
I tag my fellow Littens
#happycanadaday
@KVanRead

Josee.lit.a.lu.et.lira I have not read the book, but truly enjoyed the miniseries. Salmon 😋 4y

KVanRead Loved the book and the series❤️ Salmon! Great choice 😋 Something healthy to go with all the poutine, chips, candy and beaver tails 😂 4y

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