![]() ![]() Nostalgic, yet filled with timeless experiences. Many spreads employ a wide-angle perspective that furthers the sense of the prairie’s vastness. ![]() ![]() The pleasing results offer a variety of spreads that appear three-dimensional (blowing curtains at sunrise and sunset), quilt-like (country roads with fields on either side), and playfully detailed (the country store contains shelves collaged with items that seem to have been snipped from an old catalog). Patricia MacLachlan appA delicate, stunning account of life on the prairie from Newbery medalist Patricia MacLachlan. Archer’s vibrant, mixed-media illustrations combine acrylics, ink, and textured papers created with origami, tissue paper, and homemade stamps. Framing her reminiscences around a single summer day, she notes the orange sunrise the smells of cattle, bluegrass, and wild roses the taste of cool drinks from the filling station the sight of birds, rushing streams, and nearby mountains horseback rides trips to the granary swimming in farm ponds shopping at the general store playing kick-the-can and reading by flashlight under quilts and a yellow moon. Arthur For the Very First Time is wonderful and has a super funny and memorable chicken named Pauline. Whenever I am trying to write, I reach for one of her books. In sparse, lyrical prose, Newbery medalist MacLachlan extols the prairies of eastern Wyoming (circa the 1940s), where she was born. Here’s what she wrote: Patricia MacLachlan remains one of my favorite authors and my oldest daughter’s name is Larkin, inspired by Baby. ![]()
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