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Tess loves the prairie. But her parents do not; coming from an easier life, far, far away, they resent the bitter cold winter and the poverty that means burning cow dung for fuel.
Tess and her brother Charlie go out to collect cow patties in secret, but the shame soon turns into pride as they rival each other in finding the best. When they are found out by their haughtiest neighbor, however, Tess feels that she has let her family down. But the neighbor, who scorned her family the previous years, sees Tess in a new light after a courageous event that saves his dog's life.
Based on a true incident, Tess combines authenticity with drama. Set during the 1930s in the Canadian West, it is a remarkably subtle study of a family whose older members are immigrants but whose children are, in the truest sense, at home. The story also explores different kinds of pride, self-respect, courage, and survival.
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Hazel Hutchins is a master of compelling stories for young people. She has written more than twenty-five books for children and has won numerous awards, including the Mr. Christie's Book Award, the Silver Birch Award and inclusion in the White Raven Collection of the International Youth Library in Munich.
Ruth Ohi has illustrated many of Hazel Hutchins's picture books. Her joyous, sensitive, and humorous illustrations are familiar to families all over North America.
Gr. 3^-5. Tess, her older brothers, and their parents live in a shack on the prairies of western Canada. Tess dearly loves the land, but her parents remember easier times back East and resent the poverty that the family must endure. When the coal runs out and there is no money to buy more, Tess and her brother Charlie must gather cow dung for fuel. She understands her parents' embarrassment at their financial need, yet she and Charlie take great pride in collecting the best cow patties. When a haughty neighbor discovers their secret, Tess feels she has disappointed her family until her own kindness in saving the man's dog from coyotes wins his respect. Hutchins' sparsely told story, set in the 1930s, vividly portrays both the desolation and the allure of frontier life and meshes nicely with Ohi's pencil-and-watercolor illustrations. For another portrait of hardships on the prairie, see Eve Bunting's Dandelions. Kay Weisman
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- PublisherAnnick Press
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 1550373951
- ISBN 13 9781550373950
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages32
- IllustratorOhi Ruth
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