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Short Stories for Seniors - Canada Edition: A Large Print Collection of 100 Heartwarming Tales from Canada's 1950s to 1970s
Paperback
Series: Canadian Days Remembered, Book 1
General FictionHistorical Fiction
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.48 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
One hundred short stories of Canadian life in the 1950s, 60s and 70s - in large print, written to be read aloud, with a question to talk about after every one.
These are ordinary stories about ordinary people, and the country in them is one a great many readers will recognize.
A co-op agent who quietly squares a young couple's seed account and swears the clerk to silence. The men who flood the rink after dark for three nights so the children have ice by Saturday. A party line where four rings meant you, and everybody else lifted the receiver anyway. The Santa Claus parade, the sugar bush in March, a mail plane bringing the wrong crate four hundred miles, and a woman locked out of her own house on the coldest weekend of the year with the whole town at the bonspiel.
From the outports of Newfoundland to a company townsite in the North, from a Montreal staircase on moving day to a Prairie elevator with the town's name painted one letter too long.
What makes this collection different- 100 complete stories, each three or four minutes to read aloud
- Large print throughout - 16-point type, left-aligned rather than justified, with generous spacing between lines
- A conversation question after every story - an invitation, never a test, with no right answer
- Arranged by decade, but no order required. Begin anywhere, stop after one, or read the same one again next week
- Nothing grim. There is loss in these pages, but it sits in the background where it usually sits
Every story is written to be followed by ear. The sentences are short, the cast is small, and names are repeated rather than swapped for he and she, so a listener who misses a moment can still follow.
If you are choosing a gift for a parent or grandparent, or looking for material for a residence, a day programme or a one-to-one visit, this book was designed with you in mind. A short How to Use This Book page at the front explains how the stories and questions are meant to work.
Canadian Days Remembered - large-print stories for senior readers, their families, and the people who read to them.
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