The Great Lakes: A Literary Field Guide

By Trudy Nicholson and Sara St. Antoine

Book Overview

The Great Lakes--Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario--are one of the natural wonders of the world. Shaped by glaciers, the lakes and the lands around them have been home to native American nations, explorers, loggers, and farmers as well as visitors who enjoy fishing, boating, and hunting in a region known for cool summers, colorful autumns, and snowy winters.

This beautifully-illustrated book conveys the region's natural heritage through stories, poems, essays, and historical accounts. The book invites readers to meet an Ojibwe girl born in 1777 on the shores of Wisconsin's Chequamegon Bay; spend a summer hunting for rare plants in rural Indiana or working on an organic farm; watch the Aurora Borealis from atop four hundred high dunes in Michigan.

The book is filled with adventures, including crossing an ice bridge above Niagara Falls in the winter of 1899 and sailing on the schooner, "Rouse Simmons," bringing Christmas trees from Michigan's Upper Peninsula to Chicago in 1912. Describing canoe trips, fishing expeditions, and encounters with moose, loons, and bears, the book features such well-known writers as Minnesota's Sigurd Olson, Illinois' Sandra Cisneros, Indiana's Edwin Way Teale and Gene Stratton-Porter, and Ontario's Margaret Atwood.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157131654X
• ISBN13: 9781571316547
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 9 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 4 and higher

Customer Reviews

Suitable for young readers of all ages

Compiled, arranged and edited by Sara St. Antoine, Stories From Where We Live: The Great Lakes is a delightful and enthusiastically recommended anthology of stories, essays, and poems drawn from a diversity of talented authors, all of whom are celebrating the richness of daily life and the wilds of the Great Lakes region of North America. Suitable for young readers of all ages, these memorable tales and stories are enhanced with simple black-and-white illustrations to make the land, its creatures, and the people who saw and settled upon it come alive!