Title Is it true, Grandfather? / Wendy Lohse ; illustrated by Jenny Sands

Published Sydney ; New York : Ashton Scholastic, 1994

Copies

Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
W'PONDS CRC	PICTURE BOOK Loh/Iit		AVAILABLE
MELB CRC	82P Loh/Iit		AVAILABLE
MELB SPCBC	819 Lohse Wen/Iit		LIB USE ONLY

Description 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm Summary Grandfather tells the children a story about when he went exploring the caves and tunnels inside a mountain with the other children of his village and thought he had lost his little sister Beth, who he was supposed to be taking care of. Set in the Seychelles Analysis Picture books Notes Teaching note in rear Audience For children Notes Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book, 1994 shortlist Crichton Award for New Illustrators, 1994 winner Subject Caves -- Juvenile fiction. Children's literature -- Seychelles. Grandfathers -- Juvenile fiction. Grandparent and child -- Juvenile fiction. Missing children -- Juvenile fiction. Mountain life -- Juvenile fiction. Responsibility -- Juvenile fiction. Blacks -- Seychelles -- Fiction. Caves -- Fiction. Lost children -- Fiction. SUBJECT Seycelles -- Juvenile fiction Seychelles http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79071099 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 Genre/Form Action and adventure fiction. Picture books. Fiction. Author Sands, Jenny, 1954- illustrator LC no. 94174392 ISBN 0868966215 0868966223 (paperback)

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