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Red Flower Goes West
A single red geranium, struggling to survive, becomes a symbol of hope and strength for family of settlers leaving behind their old life and following the gold rush to California in a covered wagon.
32 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1999
About the author
Ann Turner
104 books35 followersAnn Turner, also known and published as Ann Warren Turner, is a children's author and a poet.
Ann Turner wrote her first story when she was eight years old. It was about a dragon and a dwarf named Puckity. She still uses that story when she talks to students about writing, to show them that they too have stories worth telling.
Turner has always loved to write, but at first she was afraid she couldn't make a living doing it. So she trained to be a teacher instead. After a year of teaching, however, she decided she would rather write books than talk about them in school.
Turner's first children's book was about vultures and was illustrated by her mother. She has written more than 40 books since then, most of them historical picture books. She likes to think of a character in a specific time and place in American history and then tell a story about that character so that readers today can know what it was like to live long ago.
Ann Turner says that stories choose her, rather than the other way around: "I often feel as if I am walking along quietly, minding my own business, when a story creeps up behind me and taps me on the shoulder. 'Tell me, show me, write me!' it whispers in my ear. And if I don't tell that story, it wakes me up in the morning, shakes me out of my favorite afternoon nap, and insists upon being told."
(from: http://www.eduplace.com/kids/tnc/mtai...)
Ann Turner wrote her first story when she was eight years old. It was about a dragon and a dwarf named Puckity. She still uses that story when she talks to students about writing, to show them that they too have stories worth telling.
Turner has always loved to write, but at first she was afraid she couldn't make a living doing it. So she trained to be a teacher instead. After a year of teaching, however, she decided she would rather write books than talk about them in school.
Turner's first children's book was about vultures and was illustrated by her mother. She has written more than 40 books since then, most of them historical picture books. She likes to think of a character in a specific time and place in American history and then tell a story about that character so that readers today can know what it was like to live long ago.
Ann Turner says that stories choose her, rather than the other way around: "I often feel as if I am walking along quietly, minding my own business, when a story creeps up behind me and taps me on the shoulder. 'Tell me, show me, write me!' it whispers in my ear. And if I don't tell that story, it wakes me up in the morning, shakes me out of my favorite afternoon nap, and insists upon being told."
(from: http://www.eduplace.com/kids/tnc/mtai...)
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February 12, 2019
A young boy and his family are moving west in search of gold and a new place to call home. He is having a hard time adjusting to the idea so brings on a special red flower and starts to believe that it is lucky. As long as the flower survives, they will make it through the grueling journey.
They make it to the west and settle down, the family and the flower alive and safe.
Its hard to imagine how much people struggled back then and still struggle now. It's so easy to take things for granted.
They make it to the west and settle down, the family and the flower alive and safe.
Its hard to imagine how much people struggled back then and still struggle now. It's so easy to take things for granted.
April 21, 2010
A family travels to the west in search of gold. On their way there the family has to go through many stuggels and even thirst but they must keep their flower alive. Like the flower the family had to start their new life in new soil.
September 22, 2015
Nice little story that highlights the geographical challenges settlers faced
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