Isabelle Arsenault is a very talented Quebec illustrator who has won an impressive number of awards and has achieved international recognition. They divide their year between Port Stanley, Ontario on Lake Erie, and Newman s Cove, Newfoundland, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. They heard the unillustrated story, saw the roughs, and were the first to view the finished book.Maxine lives with her husband William and their two Yorkies, Ceilidh and Moon.

The students in her class, who of course thought of her only as their teacher, saw each step in the creation of a new work. She is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario.Maxine spent 31 years working as an educator in elementary classrooms, guiding children toward literacy. Born in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan on May 3, 1950, she moved to Windsor, Ontario in Canada with her family ten years later. Maxine Trottier is a prolific writer of books for young people.

Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot. With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.ĭescribe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details. And yet countries like Canada and the United States benefit greatly from their labor.īeautifully written by Maxine Trottier and imaginatively illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault, this book describes what it is like to be a child in a migrant family.Ĭorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: Working conditions are difficult for all migrant workers, most of whom have to leave families far behind. And while they currently have the right to work in Canada, that right may be challenged. But it has become increasingly difficult for them to earn a livelihood, and so they come back to Canada each year as migrant workers in order to survive. The Low German-speaking Mennonites from Mexico are a unique group of migrants who moved from Canada to Mexico in the 1920s and became an important part of the farming community there.

But most of all she wonders what it would be like to stay in one place. Sometimes she feels like a jack rabbit living in an abandoned burrow, as her family moves into an empty house near the fields. Sometimes she feels like a bird, flying north in the spring and south in the fall. A New York Times Book Review choice as one of the 10 Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2011, an Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award Honour Book, and finalist for the Governor General's Award: Children's Illustration and Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards: Picture BookĮach spring Anna leaves her home in Mexico and travels north with her family where they will work on farms.

Migrant by Maxine Trottier