The secret river / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings & Leo and Diane Dillon [illustrators].
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c 2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: [44] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cmISBN:- 1416911790
- 9781416911791
Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Picturebook | Books for Big Kids | Rawlings Marjorie | Checked out | 05/20/2024 | 33111006511733 | |||
Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Picturebook | Books for Big Kids | Rawlings Marjorie | Available | 33111007962034 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Hard times have come to the forest, but Calpurnia wants to turn them back into soft times. With her dog Buggy Horse and a tip from old Mother Albirtha, the wisest person in the forest, Calpurnia finds a secret river and catches enough catfish to feed the whole swamp land and even have some left over for Daddy to sell. When she tries to come back, she has to learn the lesson that Sometimes a thing happens once, and does not ever happen anymore ' This story is about living in a time of want, yet it is overflowing with riches.'
A young girl takes her dog to a river in a forest, where she catches enough fish to feed her neighbors, even after giving some to forest creatures she meets on the way home.