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Grandma Essie describes how her family left Missouri by covered wagon looking for a better life and lived in Kansas and Oklahoma before returning to Missouri.
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Grandma Essie describes how her family left Missouri by covered wagon looking for a better life and lived in Kansas and Oklahoma before returning to Missouri.
评论 (10)
《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
K-Gr 3-A simple, personal narrative based on stories told to the author by his grandmother. In the early part of this century, Essie's father, a hired hand on a Missouri farm, builds a covered wagon and takes the family to western Kansas, where he can have his own farm. Vignettes of their life there follow. During their second year in Kansas, the farm fails, so the family moves on to Oklahoma and the oil fields. After another year, during which her sister dies and Essie goes to work in a cafe, they save enough to move back to Missouri and buy another small farm. Here Essie remains until her marriage. Only Papa, who cannot bring himself to attend his daughter's funeral, has substance and gives a sense of the hardship and loss suffered by the family. It falls on Sadowski's splendid oil paintings to give the tale a sense of place and time. Occasional narrative details give color and texture to the story that the subdued, earthy tones of the illustrations lack. Other similar works, such as Brett Harvey's Cassie's Journey (1987) and My Prairie Year (1986, both Holiday), Scott Russell Sanders's Aurora Means Dawn (Bradbury, 1989), and Karen Ackerman's Araminta's Paint Box (Atheneum, 1990) are better choices.-Linda Greengrass, Bank Street College Library, New York City (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
In this superb oral history, folksinger Williams ( Walking to the Creek ) gathers together the ``prairie stories'' told to him in 1988 by his Grandmother Essie, then 87. Recalling her family's travels in a covered wagon through Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri, Essie describes the prairies that ``rolled on forever, like the back of some huge animal that might get up and run.'' Her narrative is filled with memorable details and episodes: the distinctions drawn between the ``barefoot kids'' at the back of the one-room schoolhouse and ``the rich kids and their shoes'' up front; the death of Essie's sister Stella; the time when ``Papa broke up the old covered wagon and sawed it to pieces,'' making from the wood the ``porch swing like the one we're sitting on.'' Williams tells Essie's story ``in mostly her words,'' which are colored with homely, apt images. Sadowski, a Pole making his American debut, contributes meticulous oil paintings that seem to combine the styles of Thomas Allen and Barbara Cooney. His quiet illustrations lend a spare grace to Williams's nostalgic paean to the sturdy Midwestern pioneers who ``dreamed of something more.'' Ages 5-up. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
Grandma Essie's true-life account of her family's migration in search of better fortunes recollects highlights of childhood years spent in Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Spacious views of the solitary travelers are set in somber greens and golds. Both author and artist achieve a resonance in re-creating time past. From HORN BOOK 1993, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
Recounting the early experiences of his grandmother, born in 1901, Williams describes ``in mostly her words'' her journey from Missouri to Kansas with a large family, including a baby sister and an older, pregnant one and her husband; later, drought pushed them on to ``Mama's folks...part Indian,'' in Oklahoma; still later, they went to the boomtown of Big Heart, where the men labored in the oil fields and one sister died; finally, Essie returned to Missouri. Williams works a goodly number of authentic details--school, festivities, pastimes, etc.--into his straightforward narrative. The Polish artist, making his US debut, provides beautifully designed paintings, luminous with carefully understated color--but though he seems to have studied his subject, he doesn't catch the flavor of the period or the plains: trees are noble and ancient while rooms are too ample and high-ceilinged; characters are stiff and generic, animals out of scale. Still, an attractive piece of Americana. (Biography/Picture book. 4-10) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Ages 5-8. "We traveled through Kansas on dust and rock roads that went on forever." Williams lets his grandmother tell the story of her pioneer childhood, when her father built a covered wagon and took his family from their small Missouri log cabin in search of a place in the West. The voice is quietly upbeat, remembering the adventure and the safety of the family wagon against the wild outside. Precise details evoke the hardship as well as the hope: the first settled farm, where Mama decorated the Christmas tree with pictures from the Sears and Roebuck catalog; the tornado that made the air "thick as a stampede"; the drought, failure, the moving on again; the death and burial of a sister in the oil fields of Oklahoma; and finally, the settling in a place Grandma Essie has never left. Sadowski's paintings, many of them double-page landscapes, are reminiscent of period illustrations and photographs, the figures slightly stiff and surrounded by the huge rolling prairie through the changing seasons. Teachers could use this picture book with oral history projects across the curriculum, leading kids to the rich stories in every family's past. Although the Library of Congress classifies the book as fiction, libraries may want to shelve it with biography. ~--Hazel Rochman
《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
K-Gr 3-A simple, personal narrative based on stories told to the author by his grandmother. In the early part of this century, Essie's father, a hired hand on a Missouri farm, builds a covered wagon and takes the family to western Kansas, where he can have his own farm. Vignettes of their life there follow. During their second year in Kansas, the farm fails, so the family moves on to Oklahoma and the oil fields. After another year, during which her sister dies and Essie goes to work in a cafe, they save enough to move back to Missouri and buy another small farm. Here Essie remains until her marriage. Only Papa, who cannot bring himself to attend his daughter's funeral, has substance and gives a sense of the hardship and loss suffered by the family. It falls on Sadowski's splendid oil paintings to give the tale a sense of place and time. Occasional narrative details give color and texture to the story that the subdued, earthy tones of the illustrations lack. Other similar works, such as Brett Harvey's Cassie's Journey (1987) and My Prairie Year (1986, both Holiday), Scott Russell Sanders's Aurora Means Dawn (Bradbury, 1989), and Karen Ackerman's Araminta's Paint Box (Atheneum, 1990) are better choices.-Linda Greengrass, Bank Street College Library, New York City (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
In this superb oral history, folksinger Williams ( Walking to the Creek ) gathers together the ``prairie stories'' told to him in 1988 by his Grandmother Essie, then 87. Recalling her family's travels in a covered wagon through Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri, Essie describes the prairies that ``rolled on forever, like the back of some huge animal that might get up and run.'' Her narrative is filled with memorable details and episodes: the distinctions drawn between the ``barefoot kids'' at the back of the one-room schoolhouse and ``the rich kids and their shoes'' up front; the death of Essie's sister Stella; the time when ``Papa broke up the old covered wagon and sawed it to pieces,'' making from the wood the ``porch swing like the one we're sitting on.'' Williams tells Essie's story ``in mostly her words,'' which are colored with homely, apt images. Sadowski, a Pole making his American debut, contributes meticulous oil paintings that seem to combine the styles of Thomas Allen and Barbara Cooney. His quiet illustrations lend a spare grace to Williams's nostalgic paean to the sturdy Midwestern pioneers who ``dreamed of something more.'' Ages 5-up. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
Grandma Essie's true-life account of her family's migration in search of better fortunes recollects highlights of childhood years spent in Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Spacious views of the solitary travelers are set in somber greens and golds. Both author and artist achieve a resonance in re-creating time past. From HORN BOOK 1993, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
Recounting the early experiences of his grandmother, born in 1901, Williams describes ``in mostly her words'' her journey from Missouri to Kansas with a large family, including a baby sister and an older, pregnant one and her husband; later, drought pushed them on to ``Mama's folks...part Indian,'' in Oklahoma; still later, they went to the boomtown of Big Heart, where the men labored in the oil fields and one sister died; finally, Essie returned to Missouri. Williams works a goodly number of authentic details--school, festivities, pastimes, etc.--into his straightforward narrative. The Polish artist, making his US debut, provides beautifully designed paintings, luminous with carefully understated color--but though he seems to have studied his subject, he doesn't catch the flavor of the period or the plains: trees are noble and ancient while rooms are too ample and high-ceilinged; characters are stiff and generic, animals out of scale. Still, an attractive piece of Americana. (Biography/Picture book. 4-10) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Ages 5-8. "We traveled through Kansas on dust and rock roads that went on forever." Williams lets his grandmother tell the story of her pioneer childhood, when her father built a covered wagon and took his family from their small Missouri log cabin in search of a place in the West. The voice is quietly upbeat, remembering the adventure and the safety of the family wagon against the wild outside. Precise details evoke the hardship as well as the hope: the first settled farm, where Mama decorated the Christmas tree with pictures from the Sears and Roebuck catalog; the tornado that made the air "thick as a stampede"; the drought, failure, the moving on again; the death and burial of a sister in the oil fields of Oklahoma; and finally, the settling in a place Grandma Essie has never left. Sadowski's paintings, many of them double-page landscapes, are reminiscent of period illustrations and photographs, the figures slightly stiff and surrounded by the huge rolling prairie through the changing seasons. Teachers could use this picture book with oral history projects across the curriculum, leading kids to the rich stories in every family's past. Although the Library of Congress classifies the book as fiction, libraries may want to shelve it with biography. ~--Hazel Rochman