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040			_cEscola Canadense de Niteroi
090			_aU1 - HAR
100			_aHartley, Deborah
245	1	0	_aUp North in Winter
300			_bil.
362	0		_a1986
520			_aA boy tells a story about the winter night in 1911 that his grandfather was forced to walk six miles across an icy lake. Halfway home and nearly frozen, grandpa found a fox that he thought was dead. Thinking about the ten dollars a fox pelt would bring, grandpa was revitalized, heading home with the fox around his shoulder. The folksy story is the kind of family narrative to which many families will relate. Simple declarative sentences allow the story's power to emerge from the people and their actions, thus the nostalgic storyline never becomes sappy. The three generations bridge the story to the present and illustrate our connection to the past. Pencil, crayon, and watercolor illustrations perfectly capture the icy winter and solidly depict the figures and homey farm interiors, softly lit by oil lamps. The sparse text flows well from page to page and every textual nuance is explored in these splendid illustrations. (Grade Level: 1-2)
650		4	_aFamily
650		4	_aGrandfathers and grandmothers
650		4	_aPoverty
650		4	_aChildren's Literature
942			_cBK
999			_c124877 _d124877