This book gives us Bonnie Fairchild’s first year at school, in the Kentucky hills in the early 1900s. It’s a sweet story with nice illustrations, and Caudill has an ear for the language. I do like her more adult books better as this one felt a bit thin at times. [Jan 2011]
The illustrations elevate this slight, heartwarming story into something that made my eyes fill with tears every time I turned a page. A simply lovely evocation of a different time- a time when stamps were two cents and a pair of little girls aged 8 and 6 were free to wander around their town sellin...
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