Migrant by Maxine Trottier, illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault
17 Feb, by Canadian, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Latin American
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Here's an immigration story that took me by total surprise: German-speaking Mennonites from Mexico who work as migrant laborers in Canada. To understand just how many levels of peripatetic displacement that involves, you have to read this fascinating (mega-award-winning!) book backwards. "Canada and the United States were...