Book Descriptions
for The Long Way Westward by Joan Sandin
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Carl Erik, his brother Jonas, their parents and the baby travel on crowded trains and a steamboat as they make their way to Anoka, Minnesota, via Chicago, Lacrosse and St. Paul during the late 1860s. This colorfully illustrated, episodic tribute to perseverance is a sequel to THE LONG WAY TO A NEW LAND (1981). (Ages 5-9)
CCBC Choices 1989. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1989. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
This lively sequel to The Long Way to a New Land follows the fortunes of Carl Erik’s family from New York City to the farmlands of Minnesota. "Historically accurate; will attract competent primary-grade readers and will be equally suitable for less able readers in intermediate grades." —SLJ.
1990 The USA Through Children's Books (ALA)
Children's Books of 1989 (Library of Congress)
1989 Children's Books (NY Public Library)
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.
