Sarah, Plain and Tall: A Newbery Award Winner (Sarah, Plain and Tall, 1) - Hardcover

MacLachlan, Patricia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060241012 ISBN 13: 9780060241018

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1985

Synopsis

Amazon Editors recommend this book for readers who enjoy chapter books with more complexity or entry-level middle grade novels.

This beloved Newbery Medal–winning book is the first of five books in Patricia MacLachlan's chapter book series about the Witting family.

Set in the late nineteenth century and told from young Anna's point of view, Sarah, Plain and Tall tells the story of how Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton comes from Maine to the prairie to answer Papa's advertisement for a wife and mother. Before Sarah arrives, Anna and her younger brother Caleb wait and wonder. Will Sarah be nice? Will she sing? Will she stay?

This children's literature classic is perfect for fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books, historical fiction, and timeless stories using rich and beautiful language. Sarah, Plain and Tall gently explores themes of abandonment, loss and love.

Read the rest of the Sarah books by Patricia MacLachlan: Skylark, Caleb’s Story, More Perfect than the Moon, and Grandfather’s Dance.

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Review:

MacLachlan, author of Unclaimed Treasures, has written an affecting tale for children. In the late 19th century a widowed midwestern farmer with two children--Anna and Caleb--advertises for a wife. When Sarah arrives she is homesick for Maine, especially for the ocean which she misses greatly. The children fear that she will not stay, and when she goes off to town alone, young Caleb--whose mother died during childbirth--is stricken with the fear that she has gone for good. But she returns with colored pencils to illustrate for them the beauty of Maine, and to explain that, though she misses her home, "the truth of it is I would miss you more." The tale gently explores themes of abandonment, loss and love.

From the Back Cover:

"Did Mama sing every day?" Caleb asks his sister Anna."Every-single-day," she answers. "Papa too."

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0060241012
• ISBN 13: 9780060241018
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64