Written and Illustrated
by Christy MacKinnon
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$9.95 e-book
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A Children’s Book-of-the-Month Club Selection
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“MacKinnon’s endearing pictures are clearly straight from the heart.”
“The text reads like a diary, lending authenticity and charm to MacKinnon’s anecdotal stories of growing up in 19th-century Nova Scotia. A unique offering.”
Rendered in lovely, full-color illustrations, Silent Observer traces the early life of author Christy MacKinnon in Nova Scotia at the turn of the century. Born in 1889, the author lost her hearing from “the Winter fever” at the age of two. Her story tells of a simple, charming life on her family’s farm by the bay and in the schoolhouse where her father taught her in their hometown of Boisdale.
Silent Observer is an affectionate, poignant memoir of childhood as seen through the eyes of a vivacious young girl. Teachers, parents, and children will share in their enjoyment of this beautiful, sensitive story of a harder but wonderful time that has passed.
Christy MacKinnon was an illustrator for F.A.O. Schwarz in New York City.
ISBN 978-1-56368-475-3, 48 pages
$9.95 e-book