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32 pp.
| Gibbs Smith |
August, 2002 |
TradeISBN 1-58685-180-2$$15.95 1988, Dial
(1)
K-3
Illustrated by
Lloyd Bloom.
In this welcome reissue, a young farmer and his bride settle amidst "the hills that roll forever" and plant a plum tree. With the eloquent simplicity of a Shaker hymn, Johnston's words capture the cyclical pattern of a nineteenth-century farming way of life. Bloom's lush palette of verdant green and earth tones wakens all the senses.