A Magical Sturgeon

Joseph Dandurand, Elinor Atkins

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Nightwood Editions
03 January 2023

People & places (Children's&YA)

Series: Kwantlen Stories Then and Now

Written and illustrated in the tradition of the Kwantlen people, Joseph Dandurand's second book is an endearing tale of two sisters and their connection with nature.

In the water sat a sturgeon, born there, so they say, thousands of years ago, though the sturgeon themselves have been here for two hundred million years. It was at first a little egg, a big egg, born into the river. Now the sturgeon is back but how did it get here? How did the first sturgeon come to be? Earth and the river, moons and suns and clouds. Time, thousands of years and the Skw:wech has seen it all. But what gift does the sturgeon have for us?

So begins this second charming story for children by Kwantlen storyteller Joseph Dandurand. The sturgeon, spirit of the great river, eludes human fishers until two young sisters neglect to follow their mother's instructions. What follows provides a moving exploration of the importance of sharing and kinship with all other living things.

The story is told with grace and simplicity by a master storyteller in the great tradition of the Kwantlen people. Accompanied by Elinor Atkins's illustrations, A Magical Sturgeon is a touching follow-up to Dandurand's bestselling children's book The Sasquatch, the Fire and the Cedar Baskets.

By: Joseph Dandurand
Illustrated by: Elinor Atkins
Imprint: Nightwood Editions
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 177mm,
ISBN: 9780889713901
ISBN 10: 0889713901
Series: Kwantlen Stories Then and Now
Pages: 32
Publication Date: 03 January 2023
Recommended Age: From 6 to 8 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joseph Dandurand is a member of Kwantlen First Nation located on the Fraser River about twenty minutes east of Vancouver, BC. He resides there with his three children. Dandurand is the director of the Kwantlen Cultural Centre and the author of several books of poetry including The East Side of It All (Nightwood Editions, 2020), shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. His first children's book was The Sasquatch, the Fire and the Cedar Baskets (Nightwood Editions, 2020). In 2021, Dandurand received the BC Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence. Elinor Atkins is an Indigenous artist from the Kwantlen First Nation.

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A Magical Sturgeon

Joseph Dandurand, Elinor Atkins

$27.99

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