My Father’s Arms Are a Boat
written by Stein Erik Lunde, illustrated by Øyvind Torseter, translated from Norwegian by Kari Dickson, and published by Enchanted Lion Books
About
During one long Norwegian night, a father and son explore their powerful emotions of love and loss, but also hope and healing. Lunde skillfully evokes the security of the parent-child relationship and the comfort to be found in the natural world.
Awards Won
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Mildred L. Batchelder Award
This award, established in Mildred L. Batchelder's honor in 1966, is a citation awarded to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States.
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2014 - Honor(s) |
