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Gordie's skate  Cover Image Book Book

Gordie's skate / Bill Waiser ; illustrated by Leanne Franson.

Waiser, Bill, 1953- (Author). Franson, Leanne. (Added Author).

Summary:

"Set in Saskatchewan during the Great Depression, this is the story of hockey legend Gordie Howe and his first experience with skating. Times were hard for five-year-old Gordie and his family in the 1930s. One day, a neighbour, desperate for some money, sold Mrs. Howe a bag of meager possessions. Inside was something wonderful: an old pair of men's hockey skates. Even though they were several sizes too large, Gordie and his sister pounced on them. At first, she and Gordie tried skating on just one foot... then holding hands to keep their balance. Eventually, his sister abandoned her skate, and Gordie grabbed it. He never looked back!"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781771872393 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 27 cm
  • Publisher: Saskatoon, SK : Thistledown Press Ltd., [2023]
Subject: Howe, Gordie, 1928-2016 > Juvenile literature.
Hockey players > Canada > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Saskatoon (Sask.) > Juvenile literature.
Genre: Illustrated works.
Biographies.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Lakeshore Branch J 796.962092 Wai 31681030026710 JNONFIC Available -

Bill Waiser is one of Canada's foremost historians.? For more than three decades, he was a history professor at the?University of Saskatchewan.? He is now a full-time writer and public speaker. Bill has published nineteen books, in addition to plying his trade in radio, television, and print media.? He's known for an engaging, popular style that draws on the power of stories.? His most recent book,?In Search of Almighty Voice: Resistance and Reconciliation, was launched?at the One Arrow First Nation's community powwow at the request of the Elders. Leanne Franson spent her childhood winters in Regina and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, building snow forts while her dad watched hockey games on tv. She was a really bad skater -- but she could draw really well! In 1991, after she finished her BFA in Montreal, she started illustrating books. Leanne is fluently bilingual and has worked on books in English and French, illustrating in total over 100 picture books, chapter books, and textbooks. She returned to Saskatchewan in 2012 with her teenage son Benn, where she draws and makes ceramics in her acreage studio.


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