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McClelland & Stewart and Tundra author Val Ross was a renowned journalist and won a National Newspaper Award. She was highly respected throughout the publishing industry for her coverage of books and the people who create them. She was an arts reporter at The Globe and Mail and her first book, The Road to There: Mapmakers and Their Stories was nominated for many awards and won the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s non-fiction. Val Ross passed away in 2008.
  



book cover The Road to There
Written by Val Ross

Trade Paperback | Tundra Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - History - Exploration & Discovery; Juvenile Nonfiction - History | 978-0-88776-933-7 (0-88776-933-0) | September 2009 | 17.99

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... [read more]

book cover The Road to There
Written by Val Ross

Hardcover | Tundra Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - History - Exploration & Discovery; Juvenile Nonfiction - History | 978-0-88776-621-3 (0-88776-621-8) | September 2003 | 29.99

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... [read more]

book cover The Road to There
Written by Val Ross

eBook | Tundra Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - History - Exploration & Discovery; Juvenile Nonfiction - History | 978-1-77049-062-8 (1-77049-062-0) | June 2009 | 10.99

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... [read more]

book cover You Can't Read This
Written by Val Ross

Hardcover | Tundra Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - Language Arts; Juvenile Nonfiction - History | 978-0-88776-732-6 (0-88776-732-X) | April 2006 | 26.99

Wherever people can read, there are stories about the magic, mystery, and power of what they read. Val Ross presents a history of reading that is, in fact, the story of the monumental, on-going struggle to read. From Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon the Great, the world’s oldest signed author to Empress... [read more]

book cover You Can't Read This
Written by Val Ross

eBook | Tundra Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - Language Arts; Juvenile Nonfiction - History | 978-1-77049-086-4 (1-77049-086-8) | July 2009 | 13.99

Wherever people can read, there are stories about the magic, mystery, and power of what they read. Val Ross presents a history of reading that is, in fact, the story of the monumental, on-going struggle to read. From Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon the Great, the world’s oldest signed author to Empress... [read more]

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