Book Description
Minnesotans are a hardy lot, undaunted by snow and cold. Armed with wool and fleece, they embrace the winter season and all the opportunities for adventure, activity, and celebration it brings. Full color.
Author : Karlyn Coleman
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781681340401
Minnesotans are a hardy lot, undaunted by snow and cold. Armed with wool and fleece, they embrace the winter season and all the opportunities for adventure, activity, and celebration it brings. Full color.
Author : Chris Niskanen
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 17,62 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0873518845
Minnesotans are a highly skilled bunch, whether pursuing traditional activities like wild ricing and pickling, or tastefully displaying taxidermy, or selecting the right fishing bait. Skills particularly appropriate to Minnesota-- such as creating seed art or baking a Bundt cake--may be fully on display at the state fair, a prime opportunity to join with neighbors in celebrating our many talents. The Minnesota Book of Skills brings to life the basic know-how that makes us uniquely Minnesotan. Seasonal tips like how to gracefully exit a ski lift mingle with skills your grandparents knew well, such as what to forage for while on a hike. How soon is too soon to bring a child to the Boundary Waters or set her up on hockey skates? The answers are here. Maybe you'll never carve an ice sculpture or build your own coffin--but isn't it comforting to know that one handy book offers just the guidance you'll need?
Author : Mickey Johnson
Publisher : Wilderness Adventures Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 26,46 MB
Release : 2005-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1932098348
Author : Dan Flynn
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 11,68 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781932472295
Minnesota is known for its harsh winters, nice people, and very large mosquitoes, but the state has also been a breeding ground for talent, as Dan Flynn makes clear in this fascinating collection of thumbnail biographies.
Author : Kao Kalia Yang
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 29,82 MB
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1627794956
From the author of The Latehomecomer, a powerful memoir of her father, a Hmong song poet who sacrificed his gift for his children's future in America In the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses; extemporizing or drawing on folk tales, he keeps the past alive, invokes the spirits and the homeland, and records courtships, births, weddings, and wishes. Following her award-winning book The Latehomecomer, Kao Kalia Yang now retells the life of her father Bee Yang, the song poet, a Hmong refugee in Minnesota, driven from the mountains of Laos by American's Secret War. Bee lost his father as a young boy and keenly felt his orphanhood. He would wander from one neighbor to the next, collecting the things they said to each other, whispering the words to himself at night until, one day, a song was born. Bee sings the life of his people through the war-torn jungle and a Thai refugee camp. But the songs fall away in the cold, bitter world of a Minneapolis housing project and on the factory floor until, with the death of Bee's mother, the songs leave him for good. But before they do, Bee, with his poetry, has polished a life of poverty for his children, burnished their grim reality so that they might shine. Written with the exquisite beauty for which Kao Kalia Yang is renowned, The Song Poet is a love story -- of a daughter for her father, a father for his children, a people for their land, their traditions, and all that they have lost.
Author : Nancy Carlson
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 43,33 MB
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1627531041
The Twin Cities region of Minnesota has long been recognized as a hub of history, culture, commerce, and education. Now in T is for Twin Cities: A Minneapolis/St. Paul Alphabet, readers can explore the many treasures the area has to offer. Visit the celebrated state capitol building in St. Paul, which was modeled after Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome. Meet cartoonist Charles Schulz of "Peanuts" fame and "Prairie Home Companion" radio personality Garrison Keillor, just a few of the famous Minnesotans profiled. And learn why Minneapolis is called the "City of Lakes" while enjoying the Twin Cities region's many outdoor recreational opportunities.
Author : Paul Lowrie
Publisher : Questmarc Pub
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 12,52 MB
Release : 2008-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780975580189
A rhyme and fact-filled celebration of our state's most fundamental and famous feature--its lakes.
Author : Anthony R. Scott
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,62 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681341316
An inspiring celebration of the accomplishments of African American professionals in Minnesota, highlighting the contributions of individuals and organizations in a wide range of fields.
Author : Pete Hautman
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 10,14 MB
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0763697656
Competitive eating vies with family expectations in a funny, heartfelt novel for middle-grade readers by National Book Award winner Pete Hautman. David can eat an entire sixteen-inch pepperoni pizza in four minutes and thirty-six seconds. Not bad. But he knows he can do better. In fact, he’ll have to do better: he’s going to compete in the Super Pigorino Bowl, the world’s greatest pizza-eating contest, and he has to win it, because he borrowed his mom’s credit card and accidentally put $2,000 on it. So he really needs that prize money. Like, yesterday. As if training to be a competitive eater weren’t enough, he’s also got to keep an eye on his little brother, Mal (who, if the family believed in labels, would be labeled autistic, but they don’t, so they just label him Mal). And don’t even get started on the new weirdness going on between his two best friends, Cyn and HeyMan. Master talent Pete Hautman has whipped up a rich narrative shot through with equal parts humor and tenderness, and the result is a middle-grade novel too delicious to put down.
Author : David Gebhard
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 33,34 MB
Release : 1978
Category :
ISBN : 9781452901015
Traces Minnesota's architectural development in eight regions of the state from territorial days to the present and outlines tours of the state's landmarks. A perfect companion for sight-seeing trips.