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32 pp.
| Orca |
April, 2002 |
TradeISBN 1-55143-226-9$$16.95
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Alan Daniel
&
Lea Daniel.
"When I grow up, I'm going to be a Mountie," the narrator states at the beginning of this story, set in the Canadian past. When the boy is charged with finding his younger brother before a storm breaks, he rides off, red-jacketed and Stetson-hatted, across the prairie on his trusty horse. Watercolor illustrations reflect the prairie's golden light and the dark of the storm as they give life to the imaginative adventures of a Mountie-to-be.