True Story!
Growing up on a Prairie Farm
by Jocelyn Hainsworth

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See what it's like to grow up on a prairie farm. Understand there is safety and danger in every day, hard, hot work balanced with the fun of “swamp swimmin,” and meet a pet goat who is unaware she is not human. True Story! simply tells of the experience of growing up in rural Saskatchewan; the work and play, fun times and foul moods that go into growing gardens, raising beef and finding homes for fourteen puppies in one year. For all the city and town dwellers who believe that folks who live on a farm are aliens—this book will prove you right.

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When Jocelyn Hainsworth was eight her grandmother told her that she "could see she had a book in her." When Jocelyn was twenty-three a friend introduced her to the work of Erma Bombeck and the idea that a book didn't have to be a novel. Though busy with a job, a marriage, and raising four kids on a farm Jocelyn took on writing a weekly humour column for the local newspaper—something she still does more than twenty years later. In 1999 Jocelyn was also invited to write a column for CBC.ca called "Down on the Farm" explaining rural life on the prairies which she did until 2005. Inspired with Erma's brand of easy humour and a desire to share the rural experience with people who will never know it any other way Jocelyn has finally written a book. It remains to be seen whether her grandmother saw more than one.

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Contributors

Author

Jocelyn Hainsworth

Illustrator

Ashley Pierrard

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