Book Description
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.