Shin-Chi's Canoe (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780888998576)

Winner of the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award and finalist for the Governor General's Award: Children's Illustration

This moving sequel to the award-winning Shi-shi-etko tells the story of two children's experience at residential school. Shi-shi-etko is about to return for her second year, but this time her six-year-old brother, Shin-chi, is going, too.

As they begin their journey in the back of a cattle truck, Shi-shi-etko tells her brother all the things he must remember: the trees, the mountains, the rivers and the salmon. Shin-chi knows he won't see his family again until the sockeye salmon return in the summertime. When they arrive at school, Shi-shi-etko gives him a tiny cedar canoe, a gift from their father.

The children's time is filled with going to mass, school for half the day, and work the other half. The girls cook, clean and sew, while the boys work in the fields, in the woodshop and at the forge. Shin-chi is forever hungry and lonely, but, finally, the salmon swim up the river and the children return home for a joyful family reunion.

Author: Nicola Campbell
ISBN-10: 0888998570
ISBN-13: 9780888998576
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2008
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 7.80h x 8.20w x 0.40d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 128126 / Shin-Chi's Canoe

Award: Governor General's Literary Awards - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 03/01/2009 pg. 107
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2009 pg. 18 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw