The Range Eternal

When I was little, we had a wood-burning cookstove in the kitchen. A wood stove (brand name "The Range Eternal") is the centerpiece of this story. Set in the Turtle Mountains of North Dakota--on the Canadian border--where author Louise Erdrich grew up; in this book she recounts the special memories of her childhood related to the stove in her family's kitchen. Eventually it was replaced with a modern stove, but the memories lingered. The illustrations by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher add even more warmth to this story.