Synopses & Reviews
Tells the story of the Graves Family Dairy, whose three horses pulled the wagons delivering milk to families in the years before trucks and shopping centers replaced them.
Review
“As golden as sunlight on an Autumn day, Sheds illustrations reinforce the tone of Halls leisurely story about the evolving lives of a turn of the century dairy family. Together author and artist provide an inviting glimpse of a stalwart community learning to change with the times.”
Publishers Weekly“The Milkmans Boy will help children to understand time and change, and to see, in Sheds lovely illustrations, a world now gone.”School Library Journal
“This nostalgic New England narrative joins his The Ox-Cart Man (1979) in harkening back to a slower time and celebrating farm and family.”Kirkus Reviews.