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The boy shows Grandpa how to jump in the snow and how to make it splash into the creek. Grandpa shows the boy rabbit tracks and deer hiding among the trees. They greet their animal neighbors by name: Raven, Rabbit, Deer, Sparrow. Back home, the little boy sets the table with cookies while Grandpa pours the milk. It has been a glorious afternoon, and soon there will be books and blankets and the big armchair by the fire. In Raven, Rabbit, Deer, Governor General Award-nominated author Sue Farrell Holler casts a spell of simple wonder as small child earnestly sets out to take care of his grandfather for the day. Grandpa wisely gratifies this sweet self-importance while passing on important lessons: how to greet a raven ... how to know a deer's tracks .
About the Author
Sue Farrell Holler is an award-winning children's author whose Young Adult novel, "Cold White Sun" was a finalist for a prestigious Governor General's Literary Award. The novel, based on a true story, also won an Alberta Literary Award -- the R.Ross Annett Children's Literature Award -- and a U.S.-based High Plains Book Award. Her latest book is "Finding Moose," a companion book to the popular "Raven, Rabbit, Deer." Both picture books are written in English and feature vocabulary in the First Nation's language, Ojibwemowin. Sue Farrell Holler lives in Alberta, Canada.www.suefarrellholler.com
