Shi-Shi-etko

Name: Shi-Shi-etko
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ISBN: 9780888996596

ISBN-10: 0888996594

ISBN-13: 9780888996596

Edition: 2005

Authors: Nicola Campbell, Kim Lafave, Nicola K. Campbell

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Shi-shi-etko just has four days until she will have to leave her family and everything she knows to attend residential school. She spends her last precious days at home treasuring and appreciating the beauty of her world -- the dancing sunlight, the tall grass, each shiny rock, the tadpoles in the creek, her grandfather's paddle song. Her mother, father, and grandmother, each in turn, share valuable teachings that they want her to remember. Shi-shi-etko carefully gathers her memories for safekeeping. LaFave's richly hued illustrations complement Campbell's gently moving and poetic account of a child who finds solace around her, even though she is on the verge of great loss -- a loss that…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Publication date: 7/3/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 32
Size: 8.40" wide x 8.10" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 0.682

Kim LaFave has won the Governor General's Award, the Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award and the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award for his illustrations in Amos's Sweater by Janet Lunn. He illustrated Shin-chi's Canoe by Nicola I. Campbell, which was a finalist for the Governor General's Award. He lives in Roberts Creek, B.C.