The Tinker of Salt Cove

by Susan Hand Shetterly, Siri Beckman (Illustrator)

Two young girls learn about life and change through the arrival and death of a tinker, and with the coming of the railroad to their seacoast town

57 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1990

About the author

Susan Hand Shetterly, a former wild bird rehabilitator, has written about wildlife and wildlands for over twenty years. She is the author of the essay collection The New Year's Owl and several children's books. She was a contributing writer to the Maine Times and her pieces have appeared in Birder's World, Audubon Magazine, Yankee, and Down East. "