Synopses & Reviews
During the early 1900s, railroad companies laid tracks across America's open land. In fields of grass beside the new tracks prairie towns grew. The towns prospered amid the golden wheat fields, and grain elevators dominated the skyline. Bonnie Geisert's clear text explores the social and economic life of one of these towns, while the dramas of everyday life can be experienced in Arthur Geisert's panoramic hand-colored etchings. Here is a fascinating view of life in a thriving midwestern town, told with respect and affection for the resilient townspeople, as they work and play, their lives directly affected by the changing seasons.
Review
Young readers will want to return again and again to this bird's-eye view of small town life, as they follow the changing seasons through the year.
Review
The Geiserts once again pay homage to the American heartland in this handsome, timeless book.
Publishers Weekly, Starred
Young readers will want to return again and again to this bird's-eye view of small town life, as they follow the changing seasons through the year.
School Library Journal
The Geiserts observe and evoke the pace and rhythms of life in a prairie town with abundant affection. Kirkus Reviews
The horizontal orientation of Geisert's etchings, coupled with frequent use of two-page spreads, helps to put the growth and life of a prairie town in clear visual relation to the vastness of the surrounding plains.
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About the Author
Arthur Geisert's unique and exquisite etchings have been widely praised and exhibited at the Chicago Institute of Art, among other museums. His work is regularly selected for the Society of Illustrators', annual Original Art exhibition, and his illustrations are now being collected by the Dubuque Museum of Art. He lives in a converted bank in Bernard, Iowa.Bonnie Geisert grew up on a farm near Cresbard, South Dakota, and her childhood adventures there inspired many of the events in her
Prairie trilogy. Ms.Geisert now lives in a small town in northern Illinois, where she still revels in beautiful prairie winters.