Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass - Hardcover

Paulsen, Gary; Ruth Wright Paulsen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151181012 ISBN 13: 9780151181018

Publisher: Harcourt, 1992

Synopsis

A lyrical tribute to farm life consists of poetic vignettes that describe everything from the knifing of a pig, to the pride of threshing perfect wheat, to gargantuan meals and first love. 30,000 first printing. Tour.

About this title

About the Author:

GARY PAULSEN has written nearly two hundred books for young people, including the Newbery Honor Books Hatchet, Dogsong, and The Winter Room. He divides his time between a home in New Mexico and a boat on the Pacific Ocean.

From Library Journal:

This is a quintessential farm story filled with images of rich soil, warm sun, strong crops, sleek animals, and the ongoing cycle of labor from plowing to harvest. The people in Paulsen's tale are incidental to the work. Up before the sun, a family of work-roughened hands are always cooking and laying table, milking and harnessing horses, repairing machinery and delicately quilting. The reader is drawn in by the words and by the paintings of Paulsen's wife, Ruth Wright Paulsen, until they too feel the sweat and the strain of muscles, the heat of summer canning, the joy of a summer picnic, the ongoing rush to have enough food and just a little money to live another year on the farm. Where Richard Rhodes's Farm ( LJ 1/90) nails down the reality of agricultural life, Paulsen's Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass lets the reader dream of simpler, kinder times. This book is very well written and illustrated and will appeal to a general audience as well as one with a specific interest in farming or agriculture. Highly recommended.
- Debra Schneider, Virginia Henderson Internat. Nursing Lib., Indianapolis
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0151181012
• ISBN 13: 9780151181018
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 120