The Prairie Train

O Flatharta, Antoine

ISBN 10: 0517709899 ISBN 13: 9780517709894

Verlag: Crown Pub, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

As a young Irish immigrant boy travels by steam-engine across the American prairie to a new life, memories of the old country pull at his heart

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Antoine O Flatharta lives in Ireland.

Eric Rohmann lives in the Chicago area.

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pon a time there was a train that dreamed of being a boat."

It was the train that took immigrants seeking a better life in the New World across the endless flat prairies to San Francisco. And it was the train that took Conor, a small homesick boy from Ireland, on the voyage he would remember for the rest of his life. While on that train, Conor dreams of being back in Connemara, Ireland, with his grandfather, when suddenly, to his amazement, the waving prairie grass becomes the sea and the train on which he is traveling, like a boat, sails across it right back to his home. How Conor comes to realize that the home he's left behind will always with him provides a reassuring and deeply satisfying resolution to thie poignant tale. The dreamlike paintings by Cadecott Hoor artist Eric Rohmann combine with the lyrical text of Irish playwright Antoine O Flatharta to make this one of the most memorable books of this -- or any -- season.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Crown Pub
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0517709899
• ISBN 13: 9780517709894
• Einband: Bibliothekseinband
• Zeichner: Rohmann Eric
• Anzahl der Seiten: 40
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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