Silver Threads
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (801 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1550419013 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 32 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Taras Shevchenko writing award winner Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice Favourites selection Ontario Library Association "Best Bet for 1996"Silver Threads is the magical story of Anna and Ivan, two young newly-weds who escape poverty and hardship in Ukraine to start a new life on the Canadian frontier. While Anna works and waits alone, hope comes from an unexpected source. As they struggle to build their homestead, World War I breaks out. And when Ivan volunteers to fight for his new homeland, tragedy strikes. Based on true events, Silver Threads is a stirring lesson in history and a heart-warming tale of love and faith.
From School Library Journal Grade 2-5 - This story describes how a brave young husband and wife leave Ukraine to avoid war, only to find themselves confronted with it again in Canada. . As the story unfolds, readers will find themselves learning about several interesting facets of Canadian history, including immigration, the Canadian frontier, the effect of World War I on settlers, and the imprisonment of Ukrainians as enemies. Martchenko, who is well known for his cartoon illustrations, creates a different mood here. Without losing his unique style, he renders artwork that sensitively depicts this lovingly told story and captures period details. - Corrina Austin, Locke's Public School, St. All rights reserved. Thomas, Ontario, CanadaCopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Even when Ivan is placed in an internment camp, Anna lives in hope that the good luck of the spider's web in her house will rest
Midwest Book Review said A children's picturebook based on true events of history. Written by the grandchild of one of many interned individuals, Silver Threads is a children's picturebook based on true events of history. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Anna and Ivan, a young married couple from the Ukraine began a new life on a homestead on the Canadian frontier. When World War I erupts, Ivan volunteers to fight for his new country, yet Canadian auth. "Award-winning Author and Award-winning Illustrator collaborate on a Folk Fable based on a True Chapter from Canada's History" according to Yaroslava Benko (Mandrivnyk). Recipient of an Ontario Library Association Best Bet and nominated for the Amelia Frances-Howard Gibbon Award, Silver Threads is a classic fable about the power of love. Ukrainian-Canadian award-winning author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, once again, collaborates with Ukrainian-Canadian award-winning illustrator Michael Martchenko, resulting in a picture book sure to be treasured (for. Nicola Mansfield said Hardship for Ukrainian Immigrants in WWI Canada. Reason for Reading: After reading Marsha's novel Prisoners in the Promised Land, I learned that her very first book was on the same topic and requested in from my library right away.This is a picture book suited to the elementary grades and based on the true story of the author's grandfather, George Forchuk, who was sent to a Ukrainian internment camp for the duration of WWI as a