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"Come to California, my dears. What good is gold, without my family?" When Pa sends a letter and some money to Ma, she loudly exclaims "We're coming!"--and just like that, the great adventure of Nine For California begins! Mama, Baby Betsy, Billy, Joe, Ted, and Amanda board a Wells Fargo stagecoach bound for California--a cramped and dangerous twenty-one-day journey through mountains and desert wastes. Luckily, Mama brings a special sack filled with all kinds of useful things. Whenever Amanda gets bored, something unexpected happens--stampedes, storms, Indians, outlaws--but Mama's sack always has just the right thing for the job
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
K-Gr 3When Pa writes from the California gold fields to say he's lonely, Ma resolves to take her five children and join him. Young Amanda tells about their 21-day journey west from Missouri, cramped into a stagecoach with three other adult passengers. Levitin has used travelers' journals and letters from the late 1800s to concoct an event-filled adventure. Slowly but surely, Ma's sack full of "everything we'll need'' for the trip empties out as its contents saves more than one tense moment from erupting into a disaster. The long route is at times tedious for the travelers, but not so for readers. Every time Amanda begins to become bored, something exciting happens: hungry Indians surround the stage; a torrential rainfall causes it to get stuck in the mud; buffalo stampede toward the coach; and so on. The characters are all well drawn. The language makes the story come alive. The bright, colorful cartoons lend an amused, tongue-in-cheek tone to the story, making this exaggerated, composite narrative almost believable, and distinguishing it from many of the others covering the same experience. Use this book with David Williams's Grandma Essie's Covered Wagon (Knopf, 1993), Eleanor Coerr's The Josephina Story Quilt (HarperCollins, 1995), Karen Ackerman's Araminta's Paint Box (Atheneum, 1990), and Brett Harvey's Cassie's Journey (Holiday, 1988) for a variety of portrayals of the journey westward.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
This lighthearted picture book puts a uniquely human face on the Gold Rush era, one with which any kid who's endured a long car trip will identify. Mama and her five kids, including narrator Amanda and Baby Betsy, leave Missouri to meet Pa in far-off "Californ-y," where he's been working in the gold fields. They join persnickety Mr. Hooper and dainty Miss Camilla in a crowded stagecoach for the 21-day trip. The group groans as Mama insists on bringing a huge, bulging sack that makes the coach all the more cramped. But when her bag of tricks saves the passengers from Indians, a buffalo stampede, robbers and even boredom, everyone stops complaining. Levitin (The Man Who Kept His Heart in a Bucket) crafts a text balanced with humor, rambunctious read-aloud language and a bounty of factual information about westward travel in the mid-1800s. Smith's (Scaredy Dog) characteristically rowdy watercolors are often funny, but they also exude a sweetness and sensitivity to the difficult conditions. And like the text, the illustrations provide clear frontier detail and fun facts, too, such as the "anatomy of a stagecoach" that appears on the back jacket. A solid-gold nugget of a history lesson. Ages 4-9. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
Whenever Amanda wishes for excitement to relieve her boredom during her family's trip across country in a stagecoach, something always happens. Luckily, Mama's sack of provisions, with its unconventional contents, help turn back a buffalo stampede, appease a group of Pawnee Indians, and distract two outlaws long enough to prevent armed robbery. Loose-lined, caricaturelike illustrations brimming with movement accompany the lighthearted tale. From HORN BOOK 1996, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
Levitin (Evil Encounter, p. 533, etc.) finds an outlandish premise for her story of one family's stagecoach trip to California in the late 1800s, a story that also happily found Smith's winsome illustrations. Incidents in the book are based on letters and diaries of travelers (and in the fictional frame, a lot of information about stagecoaches is amicably bestowed upon readers), but there was probably never a trip like this one. When Pa sends a letter saying, ``Come to California, my dears. I am lonely without you,'' Mama and her five children pack, with Mama's sack of needfuls growing fatter by the minute. Rounding out the group for the 21-day trip are a banker, a teacher, and Cowboy Charlie. Baby Betsy throws up on the banker, then gets the hiccups. Mama quiets them all with sugar lumps from her sack. For lunch it's the stage driver's beans and Mama's prunes. Is everybody having fun yet? When this credibility-straining journey's over, readers may ask what Pa's doing for a living now since he was a bust as a miner, or why Mama puts up so gleefully with his sexist comments when they meet. Go West? Maybe not by stagecoach. (Picture book. 4-8)