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Keep Toronto Reading Festival 2012 - Toronto Ravine Books
Set in the ravines of contemporary Toronto, wildlife officer Edal is on stress leave from her job when she discovers a small group of individuals caring for injured animals in the Don Valley. Fauna was a finalist for the 2011 Toronto Book Award. (Can.)
Dewdney's love for the landscape and the flora and fauna of south-western Ontario has created this collection of beautiful poems. (Can.)
No one has written more passionately, and with more intimate knowledge, of the Don River Valley than Charles Sauriol. When he wasn't exploring the valley or canoeing or hiking, he lobbied to save the valley along with his colleagues in the Don Valley Conservation Association. (Can.)
The fascinating sequel to his earlier book, Remembering the Don, this title provides a glimpse of the valley as it was years ago. A vital part of the city's heritage has been preserved thanks to Sauriol's foresight, tenacity and unshakeable love of subject. (Can.)
Toronto has always been dominated by water, with a half-dozen major watersheds cutting a network of ravines through the city. However, we have also almost always mismanaged our water, from the decades-long transformation of the city's creeks into sewersheds to the alteration of our waterfront. Recently, the ridiculous trend of hiding Toronto's water underground has been countered by citizen-led efforts to restore the city's surface water; this title documents the fight and paints a vision toward which we can all work. (Can.)
Three 13-year-old boys living side by side for most of their lives use the ravine behind their backyards as their playground and adventure centre. When a tornado brings down a maple tree, the boys make a raft of the branches and set off downstream for a series of funny and tragic experiences. (Can.)
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"Silverspot, The Story of a Crow" and "Redruff, the Story of the Don Valley Partridge" are only two of the stories set in Toronto's ravines in this well-known and much loved collection. (Can.)
This is the first in Aubert's series of Ellis Portal books, all featuring a former judge whose circumstances find him homeless and living in the Don Valley ravine as the main character. (Can.)
