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A Newbery Medal-winning author once again evokes prairie life in this book called "a gift for all generations" by School Library Journal. Here ahild's great-grandfather tells a long ago story accompanied by luminous, impressionistic watercolors. MacLachlan's well-loved books include Sarah, Plain and Tall.
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Patricia MacLachlan was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming on March 3, 1938. She received a B.A. from the University of Connecticut in 1962 and taught English at a junior high school until 1979. She began writing picture books and novels at the age of thirty-five. Her works include The Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt, Skylark, Caleb's Story, Grandfather's Dance, Three Names, All the Places to Love, Before You Came, Cat Talk, and Snowflakes Fall. She won the Golden Kite Award for Arthur, for the Very First Time and the 1986 Newbery Medal for Sarah, Plain and Tall.
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Reviews (2)
School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 4-- Beneath an ever-changing expanse of prairie sky, MacLachlan's poetic, aptly chosen words bring the sights, sounds, and smells of her story alive in this intimate reminiscence by a child's great-grandfather about one school year and his dog. The narrative is told in the child's voice, sometimes as third person, sometimes as a dialogue between him and the elderly man. Three Names, a dog with a decided personality, looked forward to going to school, dancing and prancing around the wagon, barking at clouds that covered the sun, and frowning at a boy he considered ``sly.'' MacLachlan transforms each event into a special one with precise imagery. Moods and action are beautifully painted by Pertzoff in soft watercolor illustrations, an ever-present canopy for the slightly impressionistic but still clearly etched people and things underneath it. Although this text is longer than most picture books and the words are strong enough to tell the tale on their own, the illustrations nonetheless are important, enhancing the telling with the beautiful colors that paint the prairie, hills, and sky. Several lives and several levels are at work in this quiet evocation that is a gift for all generations to enjoy alone or share with one another.-- Jane Marino, White Plains Library, NY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
With graceful language and an uncommon depth of understanding MacLachlan ( Sarah, Plain and Tall ) offers readers a nostalgic view of rural Midwestern life at the turn of the century--a time ``when Great-grandfather was young, and summer was fine, full of long, warm days, and nights when the moon rose yellow.'' Unlike Cynthia Rylant's Appalachia , MacLachlan's reminiscence portrays particular characters. The plotless story artfully weaves into a seamless whole both the old man's tales of his childhood and memories the narrator has of his telling them. Newcomer Pertzoff's clean design and dreamy watercolors evoke the spaciousness and beauty of the prairie and its people as MacLachlan focuses on the year her great-grandfather begins school with his loyal dog--Three Names--and ends up ``dreaming away the summer. The two of them waiting for school.'' Another splendid addition to this Newbery Medalist's canon. Ages 5-9. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved