Shin-chi's canoe / Nicola I. Campbell ; pictures by Kim LaFave.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, Nicola I., author.

Contributor:

LaFave, Kim, illustrator.

Groundwood Books (Toronto, Ont.), publisher.

House of Anansi Press, publisher.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Off-reservation boarding schools--Canada--Juvenile fiction.

Off-reservation boarding schools.

Indians of North America--Education--Canada--Juvenile fiction.

Indians of North America.

Indigenous peoples--Education (Primary)--Canada--Juvenile fiction.

Indigenous peoples.

Genre:

Short stories.

Picture books.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[40] pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Berkeley : Groundwood Books : House of Anansi Press, 2015.

Summary:

When Shin-chi and his sister go off to his first year of Residential School in a cattle truck, she warns him of all the things he must not do. The days are long, he is very lonely and always hungry, but he finds solace down at the river with a gift from his father, a tiny cedar canoe. It seems like a very long time until the salmon swim upriver again and he can finally go home.

Notes:

"Fifth printing 2015"--Verso of title leaf.

"TD Canadian Children's Literature Award winner"--Dust jacket.

TD Canadian Children's Literature Award winner, 2009

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2019 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

OCLC:

1456140969