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  • Morning on the Lake

Morning on the Lake

Illustrator
Karen Reczuch
Publication Date
February 01, 1999
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  2nd − 3rd
Language
English
Format
Picture Book
Morning on the Lake

Description
In the first of three linked stories, a young boy and his grandfather set out in a birchbark canoe early one spring morning. Together, they discover the peaceful beauty of the lake. In the second story, the sun rises high in the summer sky as they climb a rocky cliff for a bird's-eye view of the land. And, finally, as an autumn night descends, they venture into the woods. Under the patient and gentle guidance of his grandfather, the boy gradually comes to respect the ways of nature and to understand his own place in the world.
Publication date
February 01, 1999
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781550745887
Lexile Measure
660
Publisher
Kids Can Press
BISAC categories
JUV013030 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Multigenerational
JUV011040 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - Native American
Library of Congress categories
Grandparent and child
Grandfathers
Ojibwa Indians

Kirkus

Remarkably rendered in Reczuch’s watercolors are details such as the liquid reflection on the lake, the grandfather’s wool plaid jacket, and the loon’s sleek feathered back. If readers feel a shiver down their spines while reading these pages, it will be because this tale is informed by an awe of nature, the chill of dark trees, and the spiritualism inherent in finding an eagle feather.

Jan Bourdeau Waboose
Jan Bourdeau Waboose is a First Nations writer. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Karen Reczuch has illustrated many award winning children's books, including Morning on the Lake and The Dust Bowl, winner of the 1997 Toronto Chapter I.O.D.E. Award. She lives in Acton, Ontario with her two children.

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