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Wallace, Ian

The Slippers' Keeper

32 pp. | Groundwood | April, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-1-55498-414-5 $18.95 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-55498-415-2
(4) K-3 Stiffly written text describes the boyhood passion of self-taught naturalist Joe Purdon, who encouraged Showy Lady's Slippers--wild orchids struggling to survive in the fen of his Eastern Ontario farm--to reproduce and flourish. One might think of Purdon as a Canadian Miss Rumphius, though Wallace's watercolors are less magical than Barbara Cooney's and his shy favorite flower less showy than a lupine.
Reviewer: Miriam Lang Budin

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