A Prairie as Wide as the Sea: The Immigrant Diary of Ivy Weatherall is the second book in the Dear Canada series. The book was written by Sarah Ellis; her first for the series. It was published in 2001 by Scholastic Canada with Jean Little's Orphan at My Door. The book was followed by With Nothing But Our Courage by Karleen Bradford.
Dedication[]
- "In memory of my mother, Ruth Elizabeth Steabner Ellis.
With thanks to those who told me their stories: May Ellis, Link Steabner, Thelma Drinnan, William Lawrence, Margaret Bykevich and, most of all, my dad, Joseph Ellis."
Book description[]
- "May 19, 1926
Somewhere between Maple Creek and Milorie
I am fit to burst. We are nearly there but it is taking forever. At Regina we switched trains to the mixed train. It stops every eight miles at a town. Things get unloaded and loaded up and people stand on the platform and talk and talk and talk. This distance looks so little on the map but it is taking YEARS.
Still May 19
We made it. I used to be:Ivy Doris Weatherall
and now I'm:
107 Halley Road, Forest Gate
London, England
Europe, The WorldIvy Doris Weatherall
The only thing the same is me and The World."
Sec.1-6-26-W3rd, Uncle Alf's sod house
Five Miles from Milorie, Saskatchewan, Canada
North America, The World
Plot[]
Epilogue[]
Historical Note[]
Characters[]
- Main article: List of A Prairie as Wide as the Sea characters
Author[]
- Main article: Sarah Ellis
Sarah Ellis is a Canadian author known for her children's novels, such as Pick Up Sticks, Out of the Blue, and Odd Man Out. Ellis has written three Dear Canada books, including Days of Toil and Tears and That Fatal Night.
Editions[]
Awards[]
- Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children (2001) - commended[5]
- Resource Links, Best of the Year (2002) - commended[5]
- Canadian Children's Book Centre, Our Choice (2002) - commended[5]
- Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize (2002) - short-listed
- Chocolate Lily Book Award, BC Children's Choice (2003) - short-listed[5]
- Hackmatack Children's Choice Award, Atlantic Canada (2003) - short-listed[6]
- Red Cedar Award, BC Young Readers' Choice (2004) - short-listed[5]
Acknowledgements[]
- "Thanks to Barbara Hehner for her checking of the manuscript, and Dr. Bill Waiser for sharing his historical expertise."
Notes[]
- The portrait on the cover is a detail from a c. 1920 photograph of the Sheffield family.[7]
References[]
- ↑ https://www.amazon.ca/Dear-Canada-Immigrant-Weatherall-Saskatchewan/dp/0439988330/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.ca/Cher-Journal-Weatherhall-dimmigrants-Saskatchewan/dp/0439942551
- ↑ https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B078HDX7CP/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07TDD3667/
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 https://www.scholastic.ca/books/view/dear-canada-a-prairie-as-wide-as-the-sea
- ↑ https://hackmatack.ca/downloads/shortlists/2002-03HackmatackShortlist.pdf
- ↑ A Prairie as Wide as the Sea, Sarah Ellis, page 202
See also[]
External links[]
- A Prairie as Wide as the Sea at Scholastic Canada
- A Prairie as Wide as the Sea at Scholastic Canada (French)
- A Prairie as Wide as the Sea Discussion Guide at Scholastic Canada
- A Prairie as Wide as the Sea at Teaching Books