Why a Booktrail?
2000s: A little girl moves from Saskatchewan to Toronto
I Know Here
What you need to know before your trail
The little girl in this story lives in a trailer near a forest in Saskatchewan, where her father is building a dam. She knows and loves everything about the place, but the dam is nearly finished, and when summer comes the family will move to Toronto — a city marked by a big red star on the map at school. “Have the people in Toronto seen what I’ve seen?” the little girl asks, thinking of her road, her school, the forest where she plays hide-and-seek and where the wolf howls at night, the hill where she goes tobogganing in winter… And with her teacher’s help, she finds a way to keep everything she loves about home
Locations
Reset- Canada - Saskatchewan - Nipawin
- A: Living Forestry Museum
- B: Old Highway 35
- C: Tobin Lake
- D: Railway Ave
- E: The Dam
Travel Guide
Nipawin
How do you feel when you think that, know , your entire world is going to change. What if you’re a child and everything you know and love is going to change and you don’t really understand why..What is special about Nipawin where the family live?
From a world of adventure, from a rural idyll to the big city:
She wants to remember the road she walks on to get to school, the forest where she plays hide-and-seek, the smell of a fox’s damp fur, her tobbogganing hill, the howling sounds of a wolf at night, her friends and teacher at school.
“Have people in Toronto seen what I’ve seen?” she asks her teacher, who then helps her to talk and draw about what she loves about home so she can take it with her.
The girl sketches her world to take with her to Toronto:
“I will fold up the howl of the wolf and the smell of the fox in his cage and the stare of the old moose and the feel of my heart beating fast as I swooped over my road in a five-seater airplane. I will fold my drawing up small, put it safe in my pocket and I will take my road with me. To Toronto. In the summer. This is what I know. Here.”
Streetview Maps
A) Canada - SK - Nipawin - Forestry Museum
C) Canada - SK - Nipawin - Lake Tobin
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