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Brown, Elizabeth Ferguson , Brown, Elizabeth Ferguson

Coal Country Christmas

32 pp. | Boyds | October, 2003 | Trade ISBN 1-59078-020-5 $$15.95
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Harvey Stevenson & Harvey Stevenson. In poetic text, a girl describes a Christmas visit to her grandmother's house in Pennsylvania coal country. There is happiness in the visit as well as sadness: the girl's grandfather's empty rocker reminds her of "The lung sickness that comes to those / who go deep into the mines day after day...." Stevenson's muted acrylics evoke the wintertime warmth of family but also quietly capture a sometimes harsh way of life.
Reviewer: Carolyn Shute

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