Children's Fiction Asian American
Ghost Train
- Publisher
- Groundwood Books Ltd
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2009
- Category
- Asian American, Post-Confederation (1867-), Fantasy & Magic
- Recommended Age
- 6 to 10
- Recommended Grade
- 1 to 5
- Recommended Reading age
- 6 to 10
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780888999801
- Publish Date
- Aug 2009
- List Price
- $9.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781554983896
- Publish Date
- Oct 2013
- List Price
- $14.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781773065793
- Publish Date
- Aug 2020
- List Price
- $7.99
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780888992574
- Publish Date
- Jun 1996
- List Price
- $18.95
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Where to buy it
Out of print
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Description
Winner of the Governor General's Award, the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award, the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award and the Ruth Schwartz Award
This powerful, unforgettable and multi-award-winning tale is based on the lives of the Chinese who settled on the west coast of North America in the early 1900s.
Left behind in China by her father, who has gone to North America to find work, Choon-yi has made her living by selling her paintings in the market. When her father writes one day and asks her to join him, she joyously sets off, only to discover that he has been killed. Choon-yi sees the railway and the giant train engines that her father died for, and she is filled with an urge to paint them.
But her work disappoints her until a ghostly presence beckons her to board the train where she meets the ghosts of the men who died building the railway. She is able to give them peace by returning their bones to China where they were born.
About the authors
Paul Yee is one of Canada's finest writers for children. He was raised in Vancouver and has worked in the archives at the Vancouver Museum. He won the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Literature for Ghost Train. He now lives in Toronto.
Ghost Trainbr> Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award 1996br> Winner of the Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award 1997br> Finalist for the Toronto IODE Book Award 1997
The Bone Collector's Sonbr> Winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award 2004br> Finalist for the Rocky Mountain Book Award 2006br> Finalist for the Stellar Book Award (BC Teen Readers' Choice Award) 2005-6br> Chosen as Best of 2004, Resource Links.ca
Bamboobr> Finalist for the Chocolate Lily Award 2007 (BC Readers' Choice Award)br> Chosen as Best of 2006, Resource Links
The Jade Necklacebr> Finalist for the Mr. Christie's Book Award 2002
Harvey Chan immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong as a teenager. He has won the Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award three times - with Paul Yee for Roses Sing on New Snow and Ghost Train, and with Celia Barker Lottridge for Music for the Tsar of the Sea by Celia Barker Lottridge. Harvey is currently living in Hong Kong.
Awards
- Short-listed, Hackmatack Award
- Winner, CLA Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award
- Winner, Prix Enfantaisie
- Winner, Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award
- Winner, Governor General's Literary Awards: Text
- Winner, Ruth Schwartz Award
Editorial Reviews
A splendid collaboration and achievement, once again, from Paul Yee and Harvey Chan.
Globe and Mail
Yee uses precise details...and powerful imagery...to create a rich atmosphere.
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
A moving fantasy.
Booklist
Other titles by
The Three Sisters
Shu-Li and the Magic Pear Tree
Dear Canada: Hoping for Home
Stories of Arrival
Chinese Fairy Tale Feasts
A Literary Cookbook
Au Canada : De fer et de sang
La construction du chemin de fer canadien, Lee Heen-gwon, Colombie-Britannique, 1882
The Bone Collector's Son
Cher Journal : Terre d'accueil, terre d'espoir
Onze récits
The Secret Keepers
Money Boy
