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This volume in the Kids of Canada series follows a young city girl's exploration of the countryside, showing what she finds there. Anna searches for a pet on her grandparent's farm: will it be a toad? A Worm? A Snake? Each choice she makes teaches her about these creatures and the world they inhabit and, ultimately, about herself. In a charming and playful manner, Atwood and Barkhouse evoke the relationship between a child and the natural world.Tags
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Clunky dialogue although it is an informative book for young city kids.
Well while the premise a a girl named Anna who searches her grandparents farm to find a pet is very intesresting, this book is not that great. I don't find the writing to be bad its pretty good, but the fact that not every page is illustrated is bad to me especially when this book is channeled toward beginner readers. I think that an Author of the Governor-General's award should know about finding a better illustrated. The story is defiantly interesting as Anna goes from a toad to a snack and worm and a frog, but the illustrations defiantly does not do this story justice. But in the end Anna gets a pet and she has learned lessons on were various animals live.
Anna's got a lot to learn about pet care!
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Margaret Atwood was born on November 18, 1939 in Ottawa, Canada. She received a B.A. from Victoria College, University of Toronto in 1961 and an M.A. from Radcliff College in 1962. Her first book of verse, Double Persephone, was published in 1961 and was awarded the E. J. Pratt Medal. She has published numerous books of poetry, novels, story show more collections, critical work, juvenile work, and radio and teleplays. Her works include The Journals of Susanna Moodie, Power Politics, Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Morning in the Buried House, the MaddAdam trilogy, and The Heart Goes Last. She has won numerous awards including the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, the Booker Prize in 2000 for The Blind Assassin, the Giller Prize and the Premio Mondello for Alias Grace, and the Governor General's Award in 1966 for The Circle Game and in 1986 for The Handmaid's Tale, which also won the very first Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987. She won the PEN Pinter prize in 2016 for her political activism. She was awarded the 2016 PEN Pinter Prize for the outstanding literary merit of her body of work. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Anna's Pet
- Original publication date
- 1980
Classifications
- Genres
- Children's Books, Fiction and Literature, Picture Books
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .A895 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- Reviews
- 3
- Rating
- (2.75)
- Languages
- Catalan, English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 5
