Author(s): Jim McGugan,Murray Kimber
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 32
Publisher: Red Deer Press
Language: English
Date Published: 2012-08-31
Dimensions: 218 x 222 x 4mm
Publication City/Country: United States
Edition: Reprint
Illustrations: Illustrations, unspecified

The time is 1900, in the midst of the great waves of European immigration to North America. Standing in the dust and wind of the prairie, a young boy prepares to say good-bye to Josepha, his older classmate, who is leaving the alienating world of the classroom where no one speaks his language.

But what a wonderful friend he has been! And without a common language between them, how will his younger friend ever say good-bye? What gift can he give Josepha to show how special their friendship has been? Josepha depicts a facet of pioneer life seldom considered - the immigrant child's struggle to begin again in a strange land. Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Illustration