One Book
One Book, One Community
Our Region Reads!
Now in its eleventh year, the One Book, One Community of Waterloo Region has announced its 2012 reading selection. All of Waterloo Region will be on the same page reading ...
Lakeland: Ballad of a Freshwater Country
by Allan Casey
About The Book
Lakes define not only Canada's landscape but the national imagination. Blending writing on nature, travel, and science, award-winning journalist Allan Casey systematically explores how the country's history and culture originates at the lakeshore.
Lakeland describes a series of interconnected journeys by the author, punctuated by the seasons and the personalities he meets along the way including aboriginal fishery managers, fruit growers, boat captains, cottagers, and scientists. Together they form an evocative portrait of these beloved bodies of water and what they mean, from sapphire tarns above the Rocky Mountain tree line to the ponds of western Newfoundland.
About the Author
Allan Casey is a journalist whose writing has won numerous awards, including the 2010 Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction (Lakeland), as well as Western Magazine Awards and several National Magazine Award nominations. His writing and photography have appeared in many major Canadian magazines, including Canadian Geographic. He lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and frequently visits Emma Lake, the inspiration for this story.
To learn more about the author and his work, visit his website:
Author Interview
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Podcast: CBC’s "The Next Chapter" with Shelagh Rogers
http://livinglakes.ca/sites/livinglakes.ca/files/Next_Chapter_Interview_0.mov -
Print: http://www.canadianinterviews.com/interviews/index.php?ID=249
Formats
Readers have a choice when it comes to accessing this title. Lakeland is available in a variety of formats, including:
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regular print (paperback)
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e-book download through our Overdrive collection
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DAISY reader format
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online digital audio, Braille, Electronic Braille (from the CNIB, for eligible clients).
Author Events
Allan Casey will be visiting the Region of Waterloo September 25 - 27th. The Kitchener reading will take place on Tuesday, September 25th in the Victoria Park Pavilion.
What can you do to be part of this exciting initiative?
Read the book, Talk about the book, Meet the Author.
Visit any branch of the KPL to reserve your copy of this delightful story. For more information on the One Book One Community program, visit http://www.oboc.ca.
Learn More
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The Great Lakes: The natural history of a changing region
by Wayne Grady (c2007, 2011) -
Water: The fate of our most precious resource
by Marq de Villiers -
The Ripple Effect: The fate of freshwater in the twenty-first century
by Alex Prud’homme (2011) -
This Crazy Time: Living our environmental challenge
by Tzeporah Berman with Mark Leiren-Young -
Waterlife [DVD] = L'eau c'est la vie
Produced by Primitive Entertainment in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada
Additional Resources
About the One Book One Community Program
One Book, One Community was created to promote reading by adults, and to build new connections in the community through the shared experience of reading.
In 2002, when One Book, One Community was launched, organizers expected that 1% of the Region’s population would read Alistair McLeod’s “No Great Mischief." Instead of the expected 4000 readers, more than 6800 readers were counted and an additional 3000 people attended author events.
By tracking sales, library circulations, web hits and event attendance, the committee has recorded that more than 100,000 people in Waterloo Region have participated in the program. Interest in the reading program has continued over the previous nine years with selections continuing to generate interest in libraries, bookstores, workplaces and book club gatherings.
Organized by library staff, booksellers, city staff and volunteers, the program requires a year round commitment. After the book title is announced, individuals, book clubs, organizations, employers – everyone – is invited to take up the challenge of the One Book, One Community initiative and organize their own way of “getting on the same page.”
Author events will take place around the region, with the author visiting KPL at a date to be announced shortly. Watch the library’s web site or The Record for author event dates and notices of community events as they develop, or check out the One Book, One Community website at http://www.oboc.ca.
Again this year, get all the latest news,information and developments by following @oboc_kw on Twitter.
Readers and event participants will be counted again this year, so be sure to participate, and let the community know how you got involved.
Previous Reading Selections
2011 – Louise Penny, Bury Your Dead
2010 – Terry Fallis, The Best Laid Plans
2009 – Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes
2008 – Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon, The 100-Mile Diet
2007 – Elizabeth Ruth, Smoke
2006 – Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road
2005 – Robert J. Sawyer, Hominids
2004 – Nino Ricci, Lives of the Saints
2003 – Jane Urquhart, The Stone Carvers
2002 – Alistair Macleod, No Great Mischief
