Synopsis
As the plum tree changes in the passing seasons so do the lives of a three-generation farm family.
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Kindergarten-Grade 2 The lives of a 19th-Century farming family unfold with the gentle rolling rhythms of Johnston's text. Each page reveals another event (marriages, births, deaths), which the family celebrates by planting another tree. The natural rhythms are reinforced, as every fourth line of text repeats the refrain, ``There. Just over there,'' effectively including readers in the setting and building a textual bridge between words and pictures. It is Bloom's primitive, lush oil paintings that really give Yonder its energy, though. The changes in a growing plum tree mark the family's changes. Human bonds echo through the pages, from one generation to the next, in poses and postures effectively conveyed with line. Striking use of color, notably greens with purples, creates happy contrasts in the environment, and often highlights people. Here is a book that will be a welcome historical note at story time, or loved by thoughtful independent readers. Carolyn Noah, Worcester Public Library, Mass.
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Dial Books for Young Readers, New York, NY, 1988
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Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Lloyd Bloom (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo (24 x 26 cm). Unpaginated. Lavender paper covers with purple cloth spine. Gilt titles to spine. Text block tight and unmarked. Unclipped DJ with lower corner of front flap clipped but price still present to upper. In Mylar. Seller Inventory # 4716
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Condition: FINE. First printing. A book which is a tribute to the ordinary things of life - "Way over yonder, sometime in the nineteenth century, a young farmer plants a plum tree. The farmer marries, plows the land, and sheds his solitary way of life. Children, then grandchildren, are born; summer melts in to blazing autumn, into frozen winter; the plum tree blossoms and sheds its blossoms; the farmer grows old. Gradually on family's history is illuminated till it becomes as vivid as our own. " SIGNED on the title page by Johnston and dated 1988 in the year of publication. Illustrated with glowing oil paintings by Llyod Bloom, Oblong format, unpaginated. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (bookplate on front pastedown, under dj flap). Seller Inventory # 86822