Marja's Skis

by Jean E. Pendziwol

Book Overview

Marja admires her brave, strong father as he goes off into the woods and brings back a sleigh full of logs. She also looks up her older sister and can t wait to join her in skiing to school. When... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888996748
• ISBN13: 9780888996749
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Groundwood Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.3" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

A heartwarming storybook that celebrates Scandinavian heritage.

Based on stories that author Jean E. Pendziwol used to hear from her husband's grandmother, Marja's Skis is an engaging children's picturebook set at the close of the nineteenth century, in the Greak Lakes region where many Scandinavians settled and introduced Nordic customs such as cross-country skiing. Marja is a seven-year-old girl who realizes her dream of learning how to ski to school, despite her young age. She must learn her sums and letters and how to speak English at school; life becomes hard when she loses her father in a tragic logging accident. But one day, when she sees a boarder named Arvo struggling for his life after falling into a hole in an icy river, her strength and determination will be put to the ultimate test. A heartwarming storybook that celebrates Scandinavian heritage.