Blue willow / by Doris Gates ; illustrated by Paul Lantz.
Material type:
TextSeries: Puffin Newbery libraryPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Puffin Books, 1976, c1940.Description: 172 p. : ill. ; 20 cmISBN: - 0140309241 (pbk.)
- 0606023968
- 9780140309249 (pbk.)
- 9780606023962
- Newbery Honor Book, 1941.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Children's Book
|
Main Library | Children's Fiction | Gates Dor | Checked out | 06/10/2024 | 33111007157254 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
To Janey Larkin, the blue willow plate was the most beautiful thing in her life, a symbol of the home she could only dimly remember. Now that her father was an itinerant worker, Janey didn't have a home she could call her own or any real friends, as her family had to keep moving, following the crops from farm to farm. Someday, Janey promised the willow plate, with its picture of a real house, her family would once again be able to set down roots in a community.
Blue Willow is an important fictional account of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, and has been called The Grapes of Wrath for children. It won a Newbery Honor and many other awards.
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Viking, 1940.
1. The shack -- 2. "As long as we can" -- 3. County fair -- 4. Janey walks into a picture -- 5. Camp Miller school -- 6. The contest -- 7. Wild wings and trouble -- 8. More trouble -- 9. The willow plate -- 10. "As long as we want to."
A little girl, who wants most of all to have a real home and to go to a regular school, hopes that the valley her family has come to, which so resembles the pattern on her treasured blue willow plate, will be their permanent home.
Newbery Honor Book, 1941.