Anna's Pet

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James Lorimer & Company, Jun 17, 2011 - Juvenile Fiction - 32 pages
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While visiting her grandparents' farm, city girl Anna decides she wants a pet. A cow? A snake? Anna realizes that these creatures won't be happy in the city, and she doesn't want a pet unless it's happy. Grandma and Grandpa have just the right thing for Anna.
Short chapters and easy-to-read text make this story perfect for beginning readers.

 

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User Review  - whitneyw - LibraryThing

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 ... Read full review

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User Review  - ParadisePorch - LibraryThing

Clunky dialogue although it is an informative book for young city kids. Read full review

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Anna's Pet
Atwood, Margaret,Barkhouse, Joyce
Limited preview - 1980
Anna's Pet
Atwood, Margaret,Barkhouse, Joyce
Limited preview - 1980

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ANN BLADES Anna looked Anna put asked Anna baby frog BARKHOUSE bath bathtub big jar closet Company Ltd cook cool and dark cows didn’t don’t want dust earth eight books farm fast feeling sad feet find a home find a pet fish forever found a little garden going to put Goodbye Grandma and Anna Grandma’s bed Grandpa and Grandma’s grow hands Hello hold hope you find hot and dry I’m going ILLUSTRATED BY ANN isn’t It’s cool it’s hot keep laughed little toad look happy Lorimer & Company MARGARET oven pail pet snake picked playing a joke pond put my worm put the snake put the toad put the worm rock snakes don’t snakes live tadpole take it back things Toads live took want a pet warm watch wiggled wondered worm under Grandpa Worms and snakes

About the author (2011)

MARGARET ATWOOD, poet, novelist, critic and winner of the Governor-General's Award, published her first children's story, Up in the Tree, in 1978.
JOYCE BARKHOUSE is the author of many short stories and books for children including Anna's Pet (written with Margaret Atwood) which was made into a puppet play and toured internationally, and The Witch of Port Lajoie which has been translated in four languages. She received the Order of Nova Scotia and was made a Member of the Order of Canada for her children's books and work in literacy.
ANN BLADES, internationally-known Canadian children's author and illustrator, won the Canadian Association of Children's Librarians Book of the Year Award in 1972 for Mary of Mile 18. In 1978 she was the winner of the Canada Council Award for Children's Literature, for A Salmon for Simon.

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TitleAnna's Pet
Kids of Canada
AuthorsMargaret Atwood, Joyce Barkhouse
Illustrated byAnn Blades
Editionillustrated
PublisherJames Lorimer & Company, 2011
ISBN1552777189, 9781552777183
Length32 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Juvenile Fiction / Animals / General
Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Reptiles & Amphibians
Juvenile Fiction / General
Juvenile Fiction / Lifestyles / Country Life
  
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