The New Land: A First Year on the Prairie

Reynolds, Marilynn

ISBN 10: 155143069X / ISBN 13: 9781551430690

Published by Orca Book Publishers, Custer, WA, 1997

About this Item

Color illustration on cover. Color illustrations. Minor wear to pages. Usual library markings and flaws.

Seller Inventory # 140952B

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The New Land: A First Year on the Prairie
• Publisher: Orca Book Publishers, Custer, WA
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 155143069X
• ISBN 13: 9781551430690
• Binding: Pictorial Cover
• Illustrator: Stephen McCallum
• Printing: 5th printing
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • CHILDRENS

About this title

Synopsis

Tells the story of the first year of a pioneer family, from their journey by boat, train, and wagon to their own plot of land, through the task of finding water, building the homestead, ploughing the land, and surviving their first winter

From School Library Journal

Kindergarten-Grade 3. This Canadian publication, set in the early 20th century, tells the story of an immigrant family (of unspecified origin) during their first year of homesteading on the frontier. Mother and Father, John, and little Annie travel by oxcart to the prairie. There, a well must be dug, and a sod house and barn constructed before the snows of winter keep everyone indoors. Spring brings the time for ploughing and planting, and the small family rejoices in the prairie flowers and the flight of geese and meadowlarks. Softly colored, full-page pictures apparently created with colored pencils and chalks show scenes of the family's journey by sea, rail, and covered wagon; their farm in the midst of wide fields of grass; and the first fruits of their labor. Simple and descriptive, this quiet story with its gentle pictures can be read aloud or used as supplementary material when discussing the settling of the West.?Shirley Wilton, Ocean County College, Toms River, NJ
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