This is an all new edition, re-released in hard cover & paperback.

Silver Threads   new

by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch 
illustrated by Michael Martchenko 

Fitzhenry & Whiteside Canada,  2004
$9.95 paperback
$19.99 hardcover

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Silver Threads is the magical story of Anna and Ivan, two young newly-weds who escape poverty and hardship in Ukraine to start a new life on the Canadian frontier. As they struggle to build their homestead, World War I breaks out. And when Ivan volunteers to fight for his new homeland, tragedy strikes. While Anna works and waits alone, hope comes from an unexpected source.

Based on true events,  (see Internment of Ukrainians in Canada 1914-1920) Silver Threads is a stirring lesson in history and a heart-warming tale of love and faith.

Silver Threads was the winner of the 1995 Taras Shevchenko writing award, and was selected by the Ontario Library Association as a "Best Bet for 1996". 

"A classic fable about the power of love." Macleans

"Remarkably, Ms Skrypuch has retrieved an all-but-forgotten indignity in Canadian history without bitterness....This is a book that every Canadian grade school library should own." Kingston Whig Standard

"Canadian readers of all stripes like Silver Threads." Edmonton Journal

"It was not at all hard for me to become enthralled, immediately, with 'Silver Threads.' "  Ukrainian Weekly
 

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The original edition from 1996.




The original edition (1996) is  now out of print, but is still available in its Ukrainian translation:
 University of Alberta
$19.95 hard cover
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