What's the most beautiful thing you know about horses? / story by Richard Van Camp ; pictures by George Littlechild.
Material type: TextPublisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Children's Book Press, [1998]Copyright date: c1998Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeAudience: ChildrenISBN: 0892391545; 9780892391547; 0892391855; 9780892391851Subject(s): Van Camp, Richard -- Children's literature | Horses -- Children's literature | Dogrib -- Children's literatureDDC classification: 813/.6 LOC classification: PZ7.V26247 | Wh 1998Summary: On January's coldest day of the year in a small community in the Northwest Territories, a stranger to horses searches among family and friends for answers to an important question. It's forty below in the little town of Fort Smith in the Northwest Territories of Canada -- so cold that the ravens refuse to fly and author Richard Van Camp can't go outside. He belongs to the Dogrib tribe, whose people traditionally haven't used horses. To help pass the time, he decides to pose the question, "What's the most beautiful thing you know about horses?" to family members, friends, and artist George Littlechild, who is Plains Cree and knows a lot about horses.Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Children's Literature | BCACCS Resource Centre Regular | G10 V36 W43 1998 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | 1 | Available | T 2438 |
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On January's coldest day of the year in a small community in the Northwest Territories, a stranger to horses searches among family and friends for answers to an important question. It's forty below in the little town of Fort Smith in the Northwest Territories of Canada -- so cold that the ravens refuse to fly and author Richard Van Camp can't go outside. He belongs to the Dogrib tribe, whose people traditionally haven't used horses. To help pass the time, he decides to pose the question, "What's the most beautiful thing you know about horses?" to family members, friends, and artist George Littlechild, who is Plains Cree and knows a lot about horses.
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