The Prairie Train

O Flatharta, Antoine

ISBN 10: 0517709880 / ISBN 13: 9780517709887

Verlag: Crown Books for Young Readers, 1999

Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 00095474158

Inhaltsangabe:

"Once upon 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 be with him provides a reassuring and deeply satisfying resolution to this poignant tale. The dreamlike paintings by Caldecott Honor artist Eric Rohmann combine with the lyrical text of Irish playwright Antoine Ó Flatharta to make this one of the most memorable books of this--or any--season.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Antoine Ó Flatharta lives in Ireland.
Eric Rohmann lives in the Chicago area.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Prairie Train
Verlag: Crown Books for Young Readers
Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
Einband: Hardcover
Illustrator: Rohmann, Eric
Zustand: Very Good