Three Names - Softcover

MacLachlan, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0064433609 ISBN 13: 9780064433600

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1991

Synopsis

A child's great-grandfather reminisces about the times he and his dog Three Names went to school on prairie roads in a wagon pulled by horses.

About this title

About the Author:

Patricia MacLachlan is the celebrated author of many timeless novels for young readers, including Newbery Medal winner Sarah, Plain and Tall; Word After Word After Word; Kindred Souls; The Truth of Me; The Poet’s Dog; and My Father’s Words. She is also the author of countless beloved picture books, a number of which she cowrote with her daughter, Emily. She lives in Williamsburg, Massachusetts.

Eve Bunting is the author of numerous books for young people, including Our Sixth-Grade Sugar Babies, a Best Book of 1990 (School Library Journal), Is Anybody There?, a Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award finalist, and Coffin on a Case, winner of the 1993 Best Juvenile Mystery Edgar Award. Ms. Bunting lives in Pasadena, CA.

Alexander Pertzoff is a free-lance artist whose work has been exhibited in many galleries, in both group and individual shows. He has also illustrated Three Names by Patricia MacLachlan. He lives on a farm in western Massachusetts.

From School Library Journal:

Kindergarten-Grade 4-- Beneath an ever-changing expanse of prairie sky, MacLachlan's poetic, aptly chosen words bring the sights, sounds, and smells of her story alive in this intimate reminiscence by a child's great-grandfather about one school year and his dog. The narrative is told in the child's voice, sometimes as third person, sometimes as a dialogue between him and the elderly man. Three Names, a dog with a decided personality, looked forward to going to school, dancing and prancing around the wagon, barking at clouds that covered the sun, and frowning at a boy he considered "sly." MacLachlan transforms each event into a special one with precise imagery. Moods and action are beautifully painted by Pertzoff in soft watercolor illustrations, an ever-present canopy for the slightly impressionistic but still clearly etched people and things underneath it. Although this text is longer than most picture books and the words are strong enough to tell the tale on their own, the illustrations nonetheless are important, enhancing the telling with the beautiful colors that paint the prairie, hills, and sky. Several lives and several levels are at work in this quiet evocation that is a gift for all generations to enjoy alone or share with one another.
- Jane Marino, White Plains Library, NY
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0064433609
• ISBN 13: 9780064433600
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Pertzoff Alexander