Josepha

by Jim McGugan

Book Overview

Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Illustration winner Elizabeth Mrazik Cleaver Picture Book Award winner Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Text nominee The time is 1900, in the midst of the great waves of European immigration to North America. Standing in the dust and wind of the prairie, a young boy prepares to say good-bye to Josepha, his older classmate, who is leaving the alienating world of the classroom where no...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889951012
• ISBN13: 9780889951013
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Red Deer Press
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.0" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 3

Customer Reviews

One of the top ten children's books in my book!

This book is perhaps not well-known, but it should be. The first time I read it to my children I couldn't read the end of it because I was crying so hard! Heartwarming story with incredible lessons of humanity. It is the one book my kids remember the most vividly of all the books we read to them, and the book I suspect they will first buy for their own children one day.

Beautiful pictures, tender story

I bought this as a bargin book simply because it is a story set on the prairie, and I wanted to introduce my 3-year-old son to that part of the world. My son fell in love with Josepha on the first reading. The story and its pictures--vivid paintings, with real prairie skies--prompt endless questions. My son relates to the characters in this book, and I can see it helping him develop his sense of empathy. He often talks of Josepha long after we put the book down. That in itself is a good recommendation.