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Synopsis
Jesse and his sister, two city kids, travel to the country to visit with their greataunts and greatuncles, and while the "Old Ones" sit and watch, the children play in the fresh air. By the author of When I Am Old with You.
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From School Library Journal
Grade 1-3-A young African-American girl describes her family's annual trip to the house of the Old Ones, her father's seven uncles and aunts who raised him. The text is a gentle, poetic, memory piece of family members so long together that they blend into a loving unit. The bold oil illustrations cut sharp, vibrant individuals but fail to extend the text. There are no answers in the pictures or the text should readers wonder why one aunt has her hair in rollers all day, which one is May, or how these people support themselves. Something went seriously wrong with the rendering of the Old Ones' white hair and/or beards; it looks like shaving cream or a really unfortunate wig choice. Water splashes also seem stark white atop a blue pond. Though the path that winds through the property has pleasing curves, the choice to leave the background totally white on one side of the path is not entirely successful. The text reads aloud nicely and could encourage discussion of older family members and extended families. The illustrations have merit in isolation but the oils overwhelm the fragile text. Johnson's followers and fans of Cynthia Rylant's more successful The Relatives Came (Bradbury, 1985) may want to add this offering.
Jody McCoy, The Bush School, Seattle, WA
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From Publishers Weekly
In this tender picture book, Johnson (Gone from Home; When I Am Old with You) and Evans (Osceola; Shaq and the Beanstalk) pay tribute to an enviable treasure: wise and loving family elders. Every summer a girl and her brother and father drive "down the winding road" to the country, for a visit with the Old Ones, the seven aunts and uncles who raised Daddy. The Old Ones serve up a day filled with hugs, stories, memories, good times and good food that always ends too soon. And once the kids are on their way back to the city, they already miss the relatives with "creased faces and warm hands to hold." Carefully and rhythmically structured, the story unfolds in spare, evocative phrases that convey the child narrator's affection and win the readers' admiration. Evans's breezy oil paintings, featuring crisp greens and yellows, skillfully capture the sunny skies--and gentle smiles--of a special day in the country. Evans easily shifts perspective from close-up to far away, showing his brightly clad folk strolling with ease through their familiar, bucolic surroundings. The Old Ones' faces, textured to look both leathery and soft, beam with love. Ages 3-6. (Mar.)
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- PublisherDoring Kindersley Publishing
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0789425963
- ISBN 13 9780789425966
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages32
- IllustratorShane W. Evans
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