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Poems reflecting the points of view of three pioneer children describe their family's journey from Kentucky to Oregon.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 2-6To describe this book simply as a collection of poetry would be an injustice. This is historical fiction in the form of verse. The poems portray the feelings, experiences, and observations of three pioneer children in a family leaving a barren farm in Kentucky for the hope of free, rich soil in Oregon. The images Turner creates are stunning. The lone survivor of an ambush comes out of an ox-hide tent "foot first, like a babe born the wrong way." The sky is as "pink as our baby's face." In "Jake," a poem about the family dog who trotted beside the wagon until his body simply wore out, the young narrator tersely reveals his grief with honest emotion. "Columbia" describes the birth of the youngest child in a wagon en route. Ma's cries were "like birds being killed in the sky." The baby on her chest was "a red scrap that mewled and howled just like a cat." Blake's watercolor illustrations elegantly capture the scenery in warm earth tones with a delightful attention to detail. One picture shows the cold air blowing from the nose of a horse mounted for an early morning ride. In others, the children's faces evoke the fear, the joy, and the pensiveness expressed in the poems. Some books are breathtaking in every respect. This is one of them.Jackie Hechtkopf, Talent House School, Fairfax, VA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
A journey on the Oregon Trail in the 1800s is chronicled by three young siblings who each keep a diary of the trip. The language is lyrical and descriptive, but the free verse format feels too adult to represent the children's voices. However, young readers will identify with the events and heartfelt emotions. Soft oil illustrations use the interplay of light and color to convey both the joy and hardships of the early pioneers. From HORN BOOK 1997, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
Turner (Shaker Hearts, 1997, etc.) offers a splendid tale of the pioneering spirit. Traveling west from Kentucky to Oregon in the 1800s, three children keep a journal of their thoughts, feelings, and events along the way. These brief poetic passages capture in two or three paragraphs the hardship, fears, longings, joys, adventures, and sorrows of that journey west. Amanda, the oldest, teeters on the edge of adulthood, and wishes for ``a land where I could run and shout with no one to tell me I was not a lady.'' Lonnie, the older son, dreams of ``soil as deep as a man is tall,'' and a place to plant his peach orchard. Caleb, the youngest, is so fired up with fear that he reports that he looks like a peddler with charms around his neck to ward off evil: ``rabbit's foot for water, snakeskin for woods, and a dead man's fingernail to keep off the horse-stealing, ma-hurting wild men.'' Along the way a baby is born, their dog dies, they find an orphan, buy an abused horse, and nearly lose a child to cholera. They come at last to the place of their new beginning. The vivid writing is ideal for savoring at story hours; the appealing illustrations--sometimes intrusively literal, more often a poetic match to the text--would also work well in a group setting. (Picture book. 8-10)
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Gr. 4^-8. As she did in Grass Songs (1993), Turner personalizes the nineteenth-century movement west with plainspoken poems in the voices of ordinary people. This time, the focus is on one family's journey from Kentucky to Oregon, told through the journals kept by the three older children. There is not much to distinguish the three journals in voice or subject. Amanda dreams of freedom, where she can run and shout "with no one to tell me / I was not a lady." Her brothers also dream of home and adventure. Together they tell the family story of the heartbreaking leaving ("Gran and Grandpa gripping the porch rail / as if they could not stand"); the crucial events on the way (including the death of their dog and the birth of their baby sister in the wagon); and, finally, their arrival in a new land to build a home. The poems are printed on Blake's handsome double-page paintings that show the pioneer wagon moving across the prairie in sunlight and shadow, the strong, hopeful people looking out at grass and sky. --Hazel Rochman