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Bonnie Shemie was born in Ohio and attended college in Pennsylvania. She came to visit her brother in Montreal in 1972 and decided to stay on to paint, marry, and raise a family. In addition to her books on Native architecture for children, she has designed stained glass windows and architectural ornamentation. Her paintings sell in fine galleries in the Montreal area.
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Building Canada
Written by Bonnie Shemie
Hardcover | Tundra Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - Architecture; Juvenile Nonfiction - History - Canada | 978-0-88776-504-9 (0-88776-504-1) | January 2001 | 22.99
Sitting so close to the United States, and with influences from France, Great Britain, Asia, and Europe, building styles in Canada are familiar but different, eclectic, and unique. Bonnie Shemie, who studied the houses of North America’s native peoples, has created a beautiful and informative volume that defines this country’s history... [read more]
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Houses of snow, skin and bones
Written by Bonnie Shemie
Trade Paperback | Tundra Books | Architecture; Juvenile Nonfiction - Architecture; Architecture - Methods & Materials | 978-0-88776-305-2 (0-88776-305-7) | June 1993 | 8.99
A look at the fascinating shelters that Native communities in the Far North built, using only materials their environment provided: snow, stone, sod, skin, bones, and any driftwood picked up along the shores. Black-and-white and color drawings show the tools used, and how the snow house, the quarmang, the Alaskan sod-house... [read more]
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Mounds of earth and shell
Written by Bonnie Shemie
Trade Paperback | Tundra Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - Architecture | 978-0-88776-352-6 (0-88776-352-9) | March 1995 | 9.99
Much of what we know of life among the inhabitants of North America before the arrival of Europeans comes from mounds in the southeastern U.S. However, there is much debate among scholars about the findings. Excavations show sophisticated cities, large effigy mounds, centers of worship, and possibly, vast earthwork calendars. Objects... [read more]
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Building America
Written by Janice Weaver
Illustrated by Bonnie Shemie
Hardcover | Tundra Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - Architecture; Juvenile Nonfiction - History - Other | 978-0-88776-606-0 (0-88776-606-4) | October 2002 | 24.99
Named a 5th– 6th Grade Honor Book by the Austin Young Engineer’s Award 2003-2004
From old favorites like Monticello, Falling Water, and the Chrysler Building, to lesser-known treasures like Bernard Maybeck’s First Church of Christ, Scientist (in Berkeley, California), the buildings that Janice Weaver presents tell the story of a nation and... [read more]
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