Fiction Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
How Summer Came to Canada
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Initial publish date
- Jul 1978
- Category
- Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780195402902
- Publish Date
- Jul 1978
- List Price
- $10.95
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Description
When the giant Winter came down from the North to live in eastern Canada the land became frozen and white. Glooskap, mythical lord and creator of the Micmac Indians, saves his people from endless cold when he brings a beautiful Queen to his country. Her name is Summer and she persuades Winter to relax his icy grip every Spring while she awakens the land from its deep sleep and bestows life on everything that grows.
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Contributor Notes
Elizabeth Cleaver's colourful collage illustrations in The New Wind Has Wings, ABC, How Summer Came to Canada, The Loon's Necklace, The Mountain Goats of Temlaham, and The Fire Stealer, as well as in The Miraculous Hind and Petrouchka (both of which she wrote) brought her international recognition. For her illustrations in The Wind Has Wings: Poems from Canada (edited by Mary Alice Downie and Barbara Robertson) she was awarded the first Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon medal for illustration by the Canadian Association of Children's Librarians, and for Petrouchka she was awarded the Canada Council Children's Literature Prize.
