M is for Miriam

Publisher:  Alphabet Publishing, Toronto, Canada
Year Published:  2020   Pages:  32pp   Price:  $20  

Identifiers: Canadiana 20190236663 - ISBN: 9781927470077
Subjects: LCSH: English language - Alphabet - Juvenile literature - LCSH Alphabet books. - LCSH: Garfinkle, Miriam, 1954-2018.
Classification: LCC PE1155.D54 2020 - DDC j421--dc23

An illustrated children’s alphabet book about Canadian physician and activist Miriam Garfinkle.
Each page is devoted to some page of her life: C is for Community, D is for Doctor, G is for Garden, L is for Laughter, N is for Nature, P is for Piano, Q is for Questions, S is for Solidarity, W is for Waffles....


Sample text - C page:

C is for Community

Community means people
   Caring about each other
     Helping each other

Talking together
Doing things together

Sharing with each other
Sticking up for each other

Miriam was part of her communities
    Where she lived
      Where she worked
        And side by side with people
          wherever she could help.

She cared.
She helped.
She listened.
She talked.

And she was fun to be with.


Sample text - Q page:

Q is for Questions

Miriam asked lots of questions.

    Because that ’s how you learn about people
    And that ’s how you understand things

It ’s good to ask questions.

    Sometimes you get answers.
    Sometimes you get more questions.
    That’s good too.

There are always more questions than answers.

Good questions are better than thoughtless answers.

        Why is that?

Subject Headings

• Bicycles
• Birds
• Butterflies
• Canoeing
• Children
• Community
• Dancing
• Education
• Environment
• Friends
• Gardens/Gardening
• Garfinkle, Miriam
• Health
• Hockey
• Hope
• Human Rights
• Indigenous Peoples
• Jewish Community
• Joy
• Love
• Music
• Nature
• Occupy Movement
• Olive Oil
• Physicians
• Piano
• Questions
• Rocks
• Sharing
• Social Change
• Social Justice
• Solidarity
• Trees
• Turtles
• Vegetables
• Women
• Work