Children's Fiction Farm & Ranch Life
Six Darn Cows
- Publisher
- James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1979
- Category
- Farm & Ranch Life, Farm Animals
- Recommended Age
- 3 to 8
- Recommended Grade
- k to 3
- Recommended Reading age
- 3 to 8
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780888622471
- Publish Date
- Jan 1979
- List Price
- $12.95
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Where to buy it
Out of print
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Description
In this classic tale, Margaret Laurence recounts how Jen and Tod overcome their fear of the dark woods to bring the cows home at last.
About the authors
Margaret Laurence was born in 1926 in Neepawa, Manitoba. She published her first novel, This Side of Jordan (one of several works to be set in Africa), in 1960. The Stone Angel, published in 1964, was her second novel. It was an immediate success, as were her four subsequent Manawaka novels: A Jest of God (which won the 1967 Governor General's Award and was later made into the film Rachel, Rachel), The Fire Dwellers, A Bird in the House, and The Diviners — winner of the 1974 Governor General's Award. In 1971, Laurence was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. Remembered also as a peace activist, she died in 1987.
Margaret Laurence's profile page
Ann Blades is one of Canada’s leading illustrators. Her distinctive watercolors appear in many children’s books, including A Salmon for Simon, which won the Governor General’s Award for Illustration and the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award; By the Sea: An Alphabet Book, which won the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award; and A Dog Came, Too by Ainslie Manson. She is also the author and illustrator of Mary of Mile 18, for which she won the Canadian Library Association’s Book of the Year for Children Award. Ann returned to teaching in 2001 and now teaches kindergarten at an inner-city school in Surrey, British Columbia.
Awards
- Winner, Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice Selection
Editorial Reviews
"Pair this story with to introduce children to classic stories set in the countryside."
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