Waiting for the whales

Title
Waiting for the whales

Personal Author EPSB
Sheryl. McFarlane

Summary
A gentle story that illuminates the unique friendship between grandparent and child, and suggests that aging and death is only part of a greater cycle of rebirth and continuity.

Year Published
1991

Physical Description
[31] p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.

Note (Local)
[w] 5.
 
Regular
 
2-Used
 
1-New
 
[w] 2.
 
Hardcover.
 
Book

Program Information
Accelerated Reader LG 4.7 0.5 10696
 
Social Studies 2:1
 
Accelerated reader, level 4.7, points 0.5
 
Accelerated Reader 4.7 0.5
 
4.7

Awards
Amelia Francis Howard Gibbon Illustrator's Medal, 1992.

Subject
Grandparent and child -- Fiction.
 
Death -- Fiction.
 
Grandparent-grandchild relationship -- Fiction.
 
Grandparent and child -- Grief -- Fiction.
 
Death -- Family -- Fiction.
 
Governor General's Literary Award.
 
Children -- Grief -- Fiction.
 
Whales -- Fiction.
 
Family life - Fiction.
 
Death - Fiction.
 
Award Winning Book.

Added Author
Lightburn, Ron, [b?- ]
 
Toller, Christine, [b?-]

Summary
A gentle story that illuminates the unique friendship between grandparent and child, and suggests that aging and death is only part of a greater cycle of rebirth and continuity.

ISBN
9780920501665

Publisher
Victoria, B.C. : Orca Book Publishers, c1991.


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