Reuben and the Blizzard - Hardcover

Good, Merle

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1680991477 ISBN 13: 9781680991475

Publisher: Good Books, 2016

Synopsis

When the biggest blizzard in years sweeps across their farm, Reuben and his five sisters, his parents, and his grandfather all face new adventures and challenges. But the loss of electricity doesn’t affect his family since they never had any. And when their neighbor man can’t get his car out to take his wife to the hospital, Reuben and his father come to the rescue with their sleigh. This revised edition features updated text and newly designed pages.

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About this title

From the Author

Merle Good has written numerous books and articles about the Amish. Good is the founder of the publishing house Good Books. He is a playwright and novelist and lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

P. Buckley Moss (Pat) first met the Amish in 1965 when she and her family moved to Waynesboro in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Admiring the family values and work ethic of her new neighbors, Pat began to include the Amish in many of her paintings. She lives in Mathews, Virginia.

From School Library Journal

Kindergarten-Grade 3?Reuben, a young Amish boy, lives on a farm with his family. Like his schoolmates, he is excited about the prospect of a blizzard. Snow begins to fall and continues steadily all the next day. Soon the roads are closed, and power lines go down. While Reuben's family does not drive a car or use electricity, they are still affected by the heavy snowfall. Datt is worried that the dairy truck will not be able to pick up the milk from their farm, and the whole family joins in the effort to clear paths around it. When a neighbor, unable to use his car, needs to rush his pregnant wife to the hospital, Datt and Reuben bring a horse and sleigh to their aid, quickly delivering the couple through the snow drifts to an ambulance waiting at the main road. Moss's folk-style paintings elegantly depict the life of an Old Order Amish family; however, the text and the illustrations do not always match. Because they aren't carefully woven together, the story seems to jump from event to event. While the author warmly describes the way this Amish family and their community cope with the blizzard, he fails to build dramatic tension because so many incidents are included, and their outcomes are quite predictable.?Kristin Lott, East Brunswick Public Library, NJ
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About this edition

• Publisher: Good Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1680991477
• ISBN 13: 9781680991475
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Moss P. Buckley