Kurelek, William

A twelve-year-old falls asleep dreaming of a modern day nativity set in Canada.

During the Great Depression of the 1930's twelve-year-old William has a series of Christmas dreams in which he glimpses, among other visions, the Holy Family as an Eskimo family.

The author's paintings of Canadian lumber camps accompany his first-hand observations of the life of a lumberjack.

Paintings and text describe what immigrants went through to survive in North America.

Text and twenty full color paintings describe a young boy's summers on the Canadian prairies during the 1930's.

Text and twenty color paintings depict the rigors and simple pleasures of winter on the prairies during the stark 1930s.