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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Louisa's life in a loving pioneer family on the Nebraska prairie is altered by the arrival of a new doctor and his beautiful, tragically frail wife.
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Pam Conrad wrote many award-winning books for children, including the immensely popular The Tub People and The Tub Grandfather, both illustrated by Richard Egielski. She is also the author of a number of critically acclaimed novels, including Prairie Songs, a 1986 ALA Best Children's Book of the Year and a 1985 ALA Golden Kite Honor Book, and Stonewords, winner of the 1991 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile Mystery.
Pam Conradwas born in New York City and attended the High School of Perform-ing Arts, Hofstra University, and the New School for Social Research. Novelist, poet, and free-lance writer, she lives with her two daughters in Rockville Centre, New York. Her first short story has recently been accepted by the PEN Syndicated Fiction Project.
Darryl S. Zudeck was born in 1961 in New York City. He attended the High School of Art and Design and the School of Visual Arts. He currently lives and works in New York as a free-lance illustrator.
Gr 5-8 The Nebraska prairie was a barren place that offered beauty and peace to some, loneliness and madness to others. Prairie Songs provides a beautifully written insight into this contrast. Louisa and her shy brother Lester live quite contentedly with their parents when the new doctor arrives with his beautiful and fragile pregnant wife, Emmeline. All work to help the new couple adjust to harsh weather, buffalo chips, soddies and Indians; Emmeline agrees to teach the children some reading. After a terrible fright, she goes into premature labor; her baby is stillborn, and Emmeline is reduced to madness. The children notice Emmeline's loneliness and growing madness with sadness, but they accept prairie life for what it is. Conrad artfully deals with all the harsh facts in this fast-paced novel which leaves readers with a real feeling for the difficulties of pioneer life. Children may well appreciate modern medicine and communication, not to mention suburbia, after reading this poignant story. Dorcas Hand, Episcopal High School, Bellaire, Tex.
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- PublisherPeter Smith Pub Inc
- ISBN 10 0844668125
- ISBN 13 9780844668123
- BindingHardcover
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