Author: Bryan Buchan. Cover Art by James Hill. Illustrations by Kathryn Cole. Published by Scholastic Canada Limited, Toronto, ON., 1972, 1st Edition. Printed in Canada. RARE: Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book.
COPPER SUNRISE is a historical fiction that explores issues that surrounded interactions between Europeans and Native North Americans. This issue is presented to the reader through Jamie, a young boy from Scotland, who, during the early days of colonization in Canada, encounters the last of the Beothuk native people, and despite his father's warnings, befriends a native boy named Tethani.
Quill & Quire says this book is "a vivid account of a tragic episode in Canadian history."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Bryan Buchan is a Canadian-Scottish author of children's stories. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1945, he studied at the University of Toronto. From 1968 until 2011 Buchan taught in in Richmond Hill, Ontario, at the Bayview Secondary School. He retired from professional teaching prior to the start of the 2011–2012 school year.
"Buchan's three novels were written to interest his students in reading. Despite the fact that his stories are usually written with a young audience in mind, his plots and themes usually concern serious social issues such as the treatment of indigenous populations, interracial friendships, and environmentalism. Buchan uses aspects of the fantastic such as fairy folk, nature spirits and hidden magic to attract children to explore both serious and mundane real-world issues" -Wikipedia
