Novels
- Underground to Canada (1977)
- Days of Terror (1979)
- Amish Adventure (1984)
- Jacob’s Little Giant (1988)
- Incredible Jumbo (1991)
Picture Books
- Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt (1996)
Novels Book Covers
Picture Books Book Covers
Barbara Claassen Smucker Books Overview
Underground to Canada
‘There’s a place the slaves been whisperin’ around called Canada. The law don’t allow no slavery there. They say you follow the North Star, and when you step onto this land you are free…
‘ Taken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has left is the dream of freedom. Every day she spends huddled in the trader’s cart travelling south, or working on the brutal new plantation, she thinks about the land where it is possible to be free, a land she and her friend Liza may reach some day. So when workers from the ‘underground railway’ offer to help the two girls, they are ready. But the slave catchers and their dogs will soon be after them…
Days of Terror
2002175; Clean, tight, crisp, usual ex library markings. Days of Terror is the fruit of a vast amount of reading among actual accounts of the period when the Mennonites are caught in the tensions of revulutonary times. Set in 1917 and the years following, the climax is the epic story of a mass exodus of Mennonites to Canada and the United States, away from the horrors of anarchy, famine and the Russion Revolution. ;
Jacob’s Little Giant
An award winning author tells the story of Jacob Snyder, whose age and height make him feel unwanted, until his father becomes involved in an exciting experiment, raising giant Canada geese to help prevent their extinction, and Jacob gets the job of taking care of them. Barbara Smucker has won a Canada Council Award, the Ruth Schwartz Award and the Brotherhood Award of the US National Conference of Christians and Jews. She has also written ‘Underground to Canada’, ‘Days of Terror’, ‘Amish Adventure’ and ‘White Mist’.
Incredible Jumbo
In the 1870’s, a young boy helps care for the enormous African elephant that is the London Zoo’s feature attraction and accompanies him to America to become part of P.T. Barnum’s circus.
Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt
Now in Dragonfly the dramatic, poignant story of one family’s flight from religious persecution during the American Civil War, based on a true story about a Mennonite family from Pennsylvania and illustrated with authentic American quilts.