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Anne Shelby
Anne (Gabbard) Shelby was born in Berea, Kentucky, in 1948, and lives in rural Southeastern Kentucky, in a farmhouse that has been in her family for generations. She has published essays, newspaper columns, plays, songs, and children's books, among them an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists,... show more
Anne (Gabbard) Shelby was born in Berea, Kentucky, in 1948, and lives in rural Southeastern Kentucky, in a farmhouse that has been in her family for generations. She has published essays, newspaper columns, plays, songs, and children's books, among them an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, an American Folklore Society Aesop Accolade winner, a School Library Journal Best Book, and a Junior Library Guild Selection. Her collection of poems, Appalachian Studies, was a Kentucky Literary Award and Appalachian Writers Association Book of the Year nominee.
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SheWhoWaits
SheWhoWaits rated it 13 years ago
This is an absolutely gorgeous and stunningly detailed book full of nostalgia and warm feelings. Wendy Anderson Halperin's illustrations make it come alive! Every American family should own a copy!
Bashara Likes Books
Bashara Likes Books rated it 15 years ago
I really didn't feel a huge connection to the story, although it is a really neat idea - generation after generation living in the same house. How many people these days can really relate to that? If you can, I'm jealous of you. But what is really remarkable about this story, and why I knew I'd l...
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