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Article: BOOK PICKS.(Education)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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Byline: The Register-Guard
On Sand Island
By Jacqueline Briggs Martin
2003
Ages 5 to 9
Here is a picture book that is as good as they come. The story is based on a real place and actual people, so we learn some little-known American history. Yet Martin's text reads like a fine prose poem and uses elements of traditional folktales. Johnson's pen and watercolor pictures are gorgeous.
Carl Dahl is a 10-year-old boy who lives with his father and sister on Sand Island, one of the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior, off the coast of Wisconsin. It is the early 1900s. Carl's mother died just a year ago.