A Prairie Boy's Winter

A Prairie Boy's Winter PDF Author: William Kurelek
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395366097
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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'With reverence and warmth the author writes and paints his memories of boyhood on a 1930 prairie farm in winter. The narrative is colorful and interesting...the illustrations, one for each of twenty brief flashbacks, are rich in texture and painted in the American folk-primitive style; nearly all are small triumphs which can stand alone.' ---Booklist

A Prairie Boy's Winter

A Prairie Boy's Winter PDF Author: William Kurelek
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395366097
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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'With reverence and warmth the author writes and paints his memories of boyhood on a 1930 prairie farm in winter. The narrative is colorful and interesting...the illustrations, one for each of twenty brief flashbacks, are rich in texture and painted in the American folk-primitive style; nearly all are small triumphs which can stand alone.' ---Booklist

A Prairie Boy's Winter

A Prairie Boy's Winter PDF Author:
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Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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A Prairie Boy's Summer

A Prairie Boy's Summer PDF Author: William Kurelek
Publisher: Tundra Books (NY)
ISBN: 9780887761164
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Summer on the prairies during the Depression years was not a vacation from school; it was hard work.

Prairie Boy's Winter

Prairie Boy's Winter PDF Author: William Kurelek
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780808549932
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Text and twenty color paintings depict the rigors and simple pleasures during the stark 1930s. The narrative is colorful and interesting . . . the illustrations, one for each of the twenty brief flashbacks, are rich in texture and painted in the American folk-primitive style. -- Booklist

A Prairie Boys Winter

A Prairie Boys Winter PDF Author: Sandra Birdsell
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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The Long Winter

The Long Winter PDF Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060581859
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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For the first time in the history of the Little House books, this new edition features Garth Williams’ interior art in vibrant, full color, as well as a beautifully redesigned cover. The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as Pa, Ma, Laura, Mary, Carrie, and little Grace bravely face the hard winter of 1880-81 in their little house in the Dakota Territory. Blizzards cover the little town with snow, cutting off all supplies from the outside. Soon there is almost no food left, so young Almanzo Wilder and a friend make a dangerous trip across the prairie to find some wheat. Finally a joyous Christmas is celebrated in a very unusual way in this most exciting of all the Little House books.

Boy Life on the Prairie

Boy Life on the Prairie PDF Author: Hamlin Garland
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803250703
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Boy Life on the Prairie was first published in 1899, some eighteen years before the appearance of Hamlin Garland?s A Son of the Middle Border. The broad scope of the latter book, as B. R. McElderry, Jr., tells us in the introduction to this new edition of Boy Life, has overshadowed the ?earlier and better book of reminiscence dealing specifically with Garland?s boyhood experiences on an Iowa farm from 1869 to about 1881. When he wrote Boy Life on the Prairie Garland was much closer to the subject than he was in 1917, and he had the advantage of a more restricted aim: to tell directly and specifically what it was like to grow up in northeast Iowa in the years just after the Civil War. It may safely be said that no one else has given so clear and informative an account. When one considers other accounts of boyhood in nineteenth-century America?those of Aldrich, Clemens, Warner, and Howells, for example?one is impressed with the thoroughness and precision of Garland?s book. Aside from Main-Travelled Roads, Boy Life, is probably the best single book that Garland ever wrote.? The Bison Book edition is the first in more than fifty years to reproduce in full the 1899 text. It also includes an introduction addressed ?To My Young Readers? and the ?Author?s Notes? which appeared in the 1926 edition published by Allyn & Bacon. The forty-seven line drawings and six full-page illustrations by E. W. Deming are reproduced from the 1899 edition. In his introduction, Dr. McElderry provides a thorough and interesting analysis of Boy Life and compares it with the sketches written in 1888 which were Garland?s first attempt at reminiscence, as well as with A Son of the Middle Border.

Pretty Good Joke Book

Pretty Good Joke Book PDF Author: Garrison Keillor
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages :

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Over 2,200 Jokes from America’s favorite live radio show A treasury of hilarity from Garrison Keillor and the cast of public radio’s A Prairie Home Companion. A guy walks into a bar. Eight Canada Geese walk into a bar. A termite jumps up on the bar and asks, “Where is the bar tender?” Drum roll. The Sixth Edition of the perennially popular Pretty Good Joke Book is everything the first five were and more. More puns, one-liners, light bulb jokes, knock-knock jokes, and third-grader jokes (have you heard the one about Elvis Parsley?). More religion jokes, political jokes, lawyer jokes, blonde jokes, and jokes in questionable taste (Why did the urologist lose his license? He got in trouble with his peers). More jokes about chickens, relationships, and senior moments (the nice thing about Alzheimer’s is you can enjoy the same jokes again and again). It all started back in 1996, when A Prairie Home Companion fans laughed themselves silly during the first Joke Show. The broadcast was such a hit that it became an almost-annual gagfest. Then fans wanted to read the jokes, share them, and pass them around, and the first Pretty Good Joke Book was born. With over 200 new and updated jokes, the latest edition promises countless giggles, chortles, and guffaws anyone—fans of the radio show or not—will enjoy.

A Prairie Boy's Winter [sound Recording]

A Prairie Boy's Winter [sound Recording] PDF Author: William Kurelek
Publisher: Westminster, Md. : Random House School Division
ISBN: 9780394629469
Category : Farm life
Languages : en
Pages :

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Prairie Boy

Prairie Boy PDF Author: Barb Roenstock
Publisher: Thinkingdom
ISBN: 1635923549
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People * A NSTA/CBC Best STEM Book Frank Lloyd Wright, a young boy from the prairie, becomes America's first world-famous architect in this inspirational nonfiction picture book introducing organic architecture -- a style he created based on the relationship between buildings and the natural world -- which transformed the American home. Frank Lloyd Wright loved the Wisconsin prairie where he was born, with its wide-open sky and waves of tall grass. As his family moved across the United States, young Frank found his own home in shapes: rectangles, triangles, half-moons, and circles. When he returned to his beloved prairie, Frank pursued a career in architecture. But he didn't think the Victorian-era homes found there fit the prairie landscape. Using his knowledge and love of shapes, Frank created houses more organic to the land. He redesigned the American home inside and out, developing a truly unique architecture style that celebrated the country's landscape and lifestyle. Author Barb Rosenstock and artist Christopher Silas Neal explore the early life and creative genius of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, highlighting his passion, imagination, and ingenuity.