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Product description Now in its fourth printing, this is a touching novel about a young boy growing up in a Newfoundland outport who must learn to live with his mother's death and his father's remarriage. Review "...a genuinely touching novel about a little boy...who must cope with the pain of his mother's early death and his father's remarriage." -- Chatelaine Magazine "...a story of childhood in Newfoundland's outports...presenting the fears, passions, and glories of young children in a very sympathetic way...throwing the action of the story back one generation from the present time lends it a nostalgia and true pathos which add greatly to the strength of the work." -- Percy Janes, Author of House of hate "The believable detail,...the clear and unsyrupy report on the world of childhood is most satisfying and refreshing," Ray Guy, Author/Humorist "One of the ten best children's books ever written in Canada." -- The Canadian Book of Lists