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Wallace, Ian , Wallace, Ian

The Man Who Walked the Earth

32 pp. | Groundwood | October, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-88899-545-8 $$16.95
(3) K-3 Awaiting the return of their father, a family instead welcomes a hungry stranger to their remote prairie farmhouse. They share their meager Christmas meal, and the mysterious man gives them piles of salt that, scattered, turn the sky brilliant colors. Their father then returns, to the family's joy. Wallace's art is appropriately spare and clean; the story, with its folkloric resonances, is odd but haunting.
Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano

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