- Gebundene Ausgabe: 128 Seiten
- Verlag: Pelican Pub Co (Oktober 2000)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1565547535
- ISBN-13: 978-1565547537
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,6 x 28,4 x 1,7 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.606.286 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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From School Library Journal
Grade 4 Up-Artley's boyhood memories of farm life in Iowa are charmingly detailed in readable prose and fine watercolor paintings and sketches. Beginning in the spring, a season of "mud-frost-hope," the conversational essays recount the required tasks, some pleasant, many arduous, that were necessary to begin the cycle of life on the farm. Many of the illustrations include hand-printed captions that will have special appeal to young readers: "Before spring work began in the fields Dad gave the old Fordson its annual overhaul-and we kids got the old ball bearings which made wonderful steel marbles." The author also includes many details of everyday life, with a decidedly nostalgic eye: kerosene lamps, one-room schools, plowing roads after a snowstorm, early family automobiles, school programs, crank telephones, the supper table, and play activities. A bird's-eye view of barns, buildings, roads, equipment, gardens, trees, and animals is just one of many intriguing maps and cutaway drawings that readers will pore over. This is a beautiful book that progresses through the seasons, bringing to life an almost forgotten time. For reading or browsing, it's a delight.
Lee Bock, Glenbrook Elementary School, Pulaski, WI
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Lee Bock, Glenbrook Elementary School, Pulaski, WI
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Kurzbeschreibung
This well-established illustrator takes an affectionate look at farm life throughout the seasons as he observed them residing on his family's Iowa farm. All the activities of the year are described here, and illustrated in full colour, from clearing the fields in spring to preparing for Christmas. From the butchering of the pigs in springtime to the ploughing of the corn in the summer, Artley describes the many, sometimes tedious, sometimes enjoyable, responsibilities of growing up on a farm. From potato digging in the autumn to milking time in the winter, he provides the reader with many vibrant paintings, illustrating the scenes of farm life for the reader firsthand.
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Boy, do the memories come back with this one!
25. Dezember 2000
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
This book is incredible. It's like a technical manual for those who wish to draw back upon fond memories of a rural life they either once had, or wish they had. I picked this book up and couldn't put it down, the thoughtful attention to detail that Artley puts into this thing just blew me away. On one side, as an artist and someone who appreciates clear, instructive visual art, I loved this book, and when you combine that with the fact that I also have specific visual memories of the farm, this book delivers on a number of levels. I immediately gave it to an elderly in-law who was also fascinated by it's images and stories; I'll get myself another copy right away.
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A book with heart
21. Februar 2002
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
This is a beautiful book written by a writer and illustrator who grew up on an Iowa farm in the 1930's as the "age of the horse" was giving way to the "age of the tractor." The author, Bob Artley, illustrates with detailed sketches and color drawings of such things as walking through the spring mud from barn to barn carrying a bucket of feed, a birds eye view of the farmstead, one of father and son cleaning oat seed with a hand powered fanning mill, planting corn behind a team of horses, milking a cow the old fashioned way, the details of a cream separator, threshers at harvest time and much more. Mr. Artley writes a description of the work they did, what was hard, what was fun and a few of his personal memories of the feelings that he as a child had living this life. It is a touching book written with love and realism describing a lifestyle that has passed by. I especially loved his description of the barn chores where each cow had her chosen place where they were fed silage topped with ground oats and linseed oil, and where they would bed down in the straw with their heads in the stanchions feeding on clover hay. Mr. Artley is not overly sentimental in his memories. He also explains the distastefulness of cleaning out the gutters, working in the cold and the heat etc. He gives us a balanced look at farm life prior to telephones, electricity and indoor plumbing. This is a wonderful book for both those who also experienced farm life in the 1930's as well as younger people like myself who are simply interested in the lives of an older generation.
4 von 4 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
A WONDERFUL TRIP BACK HOME
14. Juli 2004
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
My mother is in her eighties and her dictum has become (for gifts),
if I can't wear it, eat it or spend it, don't give it to me. I
broke the rule when I gave her this book for Christmas, and she
loved it so much it brought tears to her eyes.
if I can't wear it, eat it or spend it, don't give it to me. I
broke the rule when I gave her this book for Christmas, and she
loved it so much it brought tears to her eyes.
Bob Artley came from a town not more than 50 miles from my home
town and his age is not that far from the mother's age, and since
my mother also grew up on a farm, going through the book was like
going back into her own very real time. Unlike Mr. Artley and
probably nearly all girls who live on farms today, my mother did
not do chores connected with the farm. That was a guy-thing.
Girls worked in the house. Period. But she certainly had
brothers a-plenty who did those very same things in very similar
ways as did Mr. Artley. The illustrations are wonderful,
so realistic you can almost smell the hay, and other things
not quite so fragrant connected with farms.
I would recommend this book to anyone who has ever lived on a farm, lived near a farm, driven by a farm. It is a document of
a way of life that is swiftly leaving the scene, more's the
pity. It should also be in school libraries.
Even very young children can get a real sense of what it was like
to live on a farm through the marvelous illustrations
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