Verla Kay, Author, Dan Andreasen, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23345-6
Verla Kay employs the format she used to such strong effect in Gold Fever and Covered Wagons, Bumpy Trails to describe the journey to the New World in Tattered Sails. Dan Andreason's dimly lit illustrations depict the land they're leaving and the
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Verla Kay, Author, S. D. Schindler, Author, S. D. Schindler, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23027-1
First-time author Kay's gloriously terse verse takes a rhymin' romp through the gold fields of 1849 California. ""Dashing westward,/ Many miners./ Townsfolk snicker,/ `Forty-niners.' "" So begins the dynamic tale of a farmer named Jasper who leaves...
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Verla Kay, Author, Adam Gustavson, Illustrator , illus. by Adam Gustavson. Ten Speed/Tricycle $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58246-184-7
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any folks thought they knew the real Charley Parkhurst (1812–1879): a scrappy orphan who possessed an almost magical rapport with horses and who became one of the bravest, fastest, saltiest and most respected stagecoach drivers in Gold...
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Verla Kay, Author, Ted Rand, Illustrator , illus. by Ted Rand. Putnam $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23417-0
With her signature spare and crisp rhyming verse Kay (Broken Feather) introduces readers to the daily life of a colonial-era Pennsylvania farm family. Sarah and her siblings put in long hours that start at daybreak ("Rooster crowing,/ Water,...
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Verla Kay, Author, Michael McCurdy, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23119-3
Kay (Gold Fever) tackles another chapter in American history, this time with less success, turning her attention to the building of the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s. Here the rollicking rhyming quatrains that served the theme of the...
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Verla Kay, Author, Susan Kochan, Editor, S. D. Schindler, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-22928-2
Plying the same peppy format that powered their Gold Fever, Kay and Schindler once again head West: ""Mother, Father,/ Baby John,/ Bouncing, jouncing,/ Moving on."" The volume explores life on a wagon train headed for California through the eyes of...
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Verla Kay, illus. by S.D. Schindler. Putnam, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23870-3
In this duo's third collaboration, following Covered Trails, Bumpy Wagons and Gold Fever, Kay employs her trademark quatrains to showcase school life in colonial times. Two spunky brothers, Peter and John Paul, attend a one-room schoolhouse under...
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Verla Kay, illus. by Kimberly Bulcken Root and Barry Root, Putnam, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-24483-4
Echoing the purposeful rhythms of a pony express rider, Kay's (Rough, Tough Charley) characteristically spare and cadenced verse sets a deliberate pace as she examines the history of information delivery in the U.S. "Letters, papers,/ ‘Must get...
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