String Too Short to be Saved

Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781567925548
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
This is a collection of stories diverse in subject but united by the limitless affection the author holds for the land and the people of New England. Donald Hall tells about life on a small farm where, as a boy, he spent summers with his grandparents. Gradually the boy grows to be a young man, sees his grandparents aging, the farm become marginal, and finally, the cows sold and the barn abandoned. But these are more than nostalgic memories, for in the measured and tender prose of each episode are signs of the end of things: a childhood, perhaps a culture. In an Epilogue written for this edition, Donald Hall describes his return to the farm twenty-five years later, to live the rest of his life in the house that held a box of string too short to be saved.

Prairie Days

Author: Patricia MacLachlan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442441925
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38

Book Description
A delicate, stunning account of life on the prairie from Newbery medalist Patricia MacLachlan. Cool summer mornings begin with the rose orange sun and the smell of earth, and fade into hot summer nights with a yellow moon, covered in a quilt of stars. There are wagon rides, farm dogs, trips into town, and games of kick the can. These are prairie days. Patricia MacLachlan applies her lyrical, sparse voice and vibrant, tender art from Micha Archer to transport readers to the prairie of her youth in this stunning celebration of the beauty in the world.

Pumpkin Moonshine

Author: Tasha Tudor
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442471727
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
It’s almost Halloween, and little Sylvie Ann has found the biggest, fattest pumpkin. But before she can carve it into a giant, crooked-toothed pumpkin moonshine (or jack-o’lantern), she has to get it home! This eBook edition of a cherished tale includes audio.

Song and Dance Man

Author: Karen Ackerman
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 030779279X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43

Book Description
A beautifully nostalgic picture book about one grandfather's younger days that shows you're only as old as you feel! "In this affectionate story, three children follow their grandfather up to the attic, where he pulls out his old bowler hat, gold-tipped cane, and his tap shoes. Grandpa once danced on the vaudeville stage, and as he glides across the floor, the children can see what it was like to be a song and dance man. Gammell captures all the story's inherent joie de vivre with color pencil renderings that leap off the pages. Bespectacled, enthusiastic Grandpa clearly exudes the message that you're only as old as you feel, but the children respond--as will readers--to the nostalgia of the moment. Utterly original."--(starred) Booklist.

The Milkman's Boy

Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802784631
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Tells the story of the Graves Family Dairy, whose three horses pulled the wagons delivering milk to families in the years before trucks and shopping centers replaced them.

Miss Rumphius

Author: Barbara Cooney
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101654929
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
A beloved classic—written by a beloved Caldecott winner—is lovelier than ever! Barbara Cooney's story of Alice Rumphius, who longed to travel the world, live in a house by the sea, and do something to make the world more beautiful, has a timeless quality that resonates with each new generation. The countless lupines that bloom along the coast of Maine are the legacy of the real Miss Rumphius, the Lupine Lady, who scattered lupine seeds everywhere she went. Miss Rumphius received the American Book Award in the year of publication. To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of two-time Caldecott winner Barbara Cooney's best-loved book, the illustrations have been reoriginated, going back to the original art to ensure state-of-the-art reproduction of Cooney's exquisite artwork. The art for Miss Rumphius has a permanent home in the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

The Man who Lived Alone

Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781567920505
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

Book Description
A man who had been unhappy as a child finds after he has grown up that he is happy living alone in his cabin in the New England woods.

Kildee House

Author: Rutherford G. Montgomery
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802773885
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
When Jerome Kildee, a solitary man, builds a home in a redwood forest in California, he takes in some skunks and raccoons, but as they begin to multiply, Kildee looks to two human neighbors for help.

UC Hornbooks and Inkwells

Author: Verla Kay
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101643579
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Life in an eighteenth-century one-room schoolhouse might be different from today-but like any other pair of siblings, brothers Peter and John Paul get up to plenty of mischief! Readers follow the two as they work with birch-bark paper and hornbooks, play tricks on each other, get in trouble, and celebrate when John Paul learns to read and write. Verla Kay's trademark short and evocative verse and S. D. Schindler's lively art add humor and character to the classic schoolhouse scenes, and readers will love discovering the differences-and similarities- to their own school days.

Island Boy

Author: Eric Minns
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bahamas
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description