Sugar Falls Book Launch!
Please join HighWater Press, The Helen Betty Osborne Foundation, and McNally Robinson Booksellers with Author David Alexander Robertson (me!) and Illustrator Scott B. Henderson…
A BOOK LAUNCH FOR SUGAR FALLS: A RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL STORY
DATE: Thursday, January 26, 2012
TIME: Reading at 7:30pm, Reception and Book Signing to follow
PLACE: McNally Robinson Booksellers, Prairie Ink Restaurant, Grant Park Shopping Centre
Sugar Falls is based on a true story. Abandoned as a young child, Betsy Ross was soon adopted into a loving family. A few short years later, at the age of 8, everything changed. Betsy was taken away to residential school. There she was forced to endure abuse and indignity, but Betsy recalled the words her father spoke to her at Sugar Falls – words that gave her the resilience, strength, and determination to survive…