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Gathering: A Northwoods Counting Book Hardcover - 1999
by Betsy Bowen; Bowen; Betsy Bowen (Illustrator)
Summary
In the northwoods, most of the year is spent preparing for the longest and most demanding season: winter. Families of people and animals alike begin their gathering for the cold months as early as the start of spring. Much needs to be done - planting and gardening, fishing and berry picking, chopping and piling wood, harvesting wild rice, and searching for warm boots and socks. Like the firewood and jarred rhubarb, summer memories are stored so that stargazing and fireflies are remembered on the coldest of winter days. In this companion to her memorable debut, Antler, Bear, Canoe: A Northwoods Alphabet Year, Betsy Bowen delights readers with a warm regard for the woods and its inhabitants. Gathering, illustrated anew in vibrantly colored woodcuts, is a celebration of the changing seasons laced with a special reverence for the magic and mystery of winter and the first big snow of the year.
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- Title Gathering: A Northwoods Counting Book
- Author Betsy Bowen; Bowen; Betsy Bowen (Illustrator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First
- Pages 32
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-09-27
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780395981337 / 0395981336
- Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 11.4 x 8.72 x 0.36 in (28.96 x 22.15 x 0.91 cm)
- Ages 04 to 07 years
- Grade levels P - 2
- Library of Congress subjects Counting, Seasons
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99017223
- Dewey Decimal Code 513.211
Media reviews
"A companion to Bowen's alphabet book, Antler, Bear, Canoe (1991), this counting book is a celebration of living in the north woods of Minnesota through the seasons of the year. Not really a concept book--the things to be counted from 0 to 12 on each double-page spread are not always consistently organized or easy to identify--this is more a lyrical picture book of an amazing place. The nature writing is precise and detailed, and children will pore over the bold, colored wood-block prints for the action and information. Winter is always there, even in the springtime scene on the first page: "We'll gather food and firewood and memories to be ready for the white snow and the cold dark nights when they come." Winter is there in the brief summer and in the harvesting of wild rice in the fall. The joy of 12 inches of snow is a glorious visual climax: 'Tomorrow we'll be able to ski! All day long.'" Booklist, ALA
"The sophisticated counting book conveys both the magnitude of a northern Minnesota winter and the joy of simple domestic rituals as it moves from zero to twelve and from May to December, describing things a family does during warmer months to prepare for frigid temperatures." Horn Book
"The sophisticated counting book conveys both the magnitude of a northern Minnesota winter and the joy of simple domestic rituals as it moves from zero to twelve and from May to December, describing things a family does during warmer months to prepare for frigid temperatures." Horn Book
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Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin, 1999 Near Fine first edition first printing no remainder mark very attractive woodcut illustrated discussion of a lifestyle spent gearing up for winter in Minnesota. Decorative endpapers, blueberry blind stamp on front board. Near fine condition in near fine unclipped dust jacket. Clean interior no writing or marks. Slight bump to upper spine of dust jacket, and a little surface rubbing on jacket front, else like new.
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