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    612-822-4611

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Johnny's Pheasant

Johnny's Pheasant

Minnema, Cheryl
Flett, Julie

Hardcover

AnimalsFamilyGeneral Juvenile Fiction

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ISBN10: 151790501X
ISBN13: 9781517905019
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: Nov 1 2019
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.60 Width: 9.70 Depth: 8.70
Language: English

An encounter with a pheasant (which may or may not be sleeping) takes a surprising turn in this sweetly serious and funny story of a Native American boy and his grandma


Pull over, Grandma! Hurry! Johnny says. Grandma does, and Johnny runs to show her what he spotted near the ditch: a sleeping pheasant. What Grandma sees is a small feathery hump. When Johnny wants to take it home, Grandma tries to tell him that the pheasant might have been hit by a car. But maybe she could use the feathers for her craftwork? So home with Grandma and Johnny the pheasant goes . . .

It's hard to say who is most surprised by what happens next--Grandma, Johnny, or the pheasant. But no one will be more delighted than the reader at this lesson about patience and kindness and respect for nature, imparted by Grandma's gentle humor, Johnny's happy hooting, and all the quiet wisdom found in Cheryl Minnema's stories of Native life and Julie Flett's remarkably evocative and beautiful illustrations.

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