If you’re a birder in the Prairie provinces and want to check a few prime locations off of your bucket list, this book is indispensable! Best Places to Bird in the Prairies is written by experts in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, and it is filled with detailed tips on how to get to each destination, a description of the type of conditions and facilities to expect when you get there, and – most importantly! – a snapshot of which species to anticipate (depending on the time of year). Make sure this compact guidebook by John Acorn, Alan Smith, and Nicola Koper has a permanent place in your bag with your camera and binoculars – you’ll find yourself eagerly consulting it to plan your next outing.
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Landscape architect, university professor, world traveler, artist, and self-proclaimed “Prairie girl,” Calgarian Beverly A. Sandalack has created an utterly delightful cookbook/travelogue/sketchbook in Recipes & Ramblings (2019). The recipes are derived from international cuisine and seem perfectly accessible to any cook, regardless of experience. Her anecdotes about her travels are fascinating and candid, and, combined with her beautiful photography and illustrations, Sandalack’s “ramblings” are thoroughly engaging. The book is available in Calgary at select stores – click here to see where you can buy it if you’re in the city. (Some of these stores may be closed or available for delivery or curbside pickup only as I write this post in early April).
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Calgary author Ramona Heikel has written a couple of important children’s nonfiction books for Beech Street Books: Black History in Canada: Famous Black Canadians (2019) and Immigration to Canada – Then and Now: Chinese Immigrants in Canada (2018). Click on the titles to check out descriptions of the books and her experiences writing them on her blog, Happily Writing. A huge congratulations, Ramona!
What are you reading right now?
Flowery Prose 
Just seeing that title of your post perked me up. Also made me want to see birds on the prairie. Bet they are a lot different than our woodland birds. I am reading a YA novel called “The Boy and the Girl Who Broke the World.”
P.S. By Amy Reed.
Wow, Sheryl, what a sweetheart you are to include me in your bookish post! Thanks so much. Maybe you’re being modest or only including others’ books, but I think you should also include your non-fiction children’s books, too. They are important accomplishments!