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3.67 AVERAGE
3.67 AVERAGE
I thought this was a sweet book with a widower putting an ad in the paper for a wife and mother for his 2 children to come out and live on the prairie. Sarah writes back to each family member from her home in Maine, and they all fall in love with her and invite her to come to live for a while to see how she likes the family. Nothing much happens, but somehow the story has endured. There are other books that follow this one, but I'm not interested enough to look for them.
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In the late 19th century, Anna lives on a farm telling her brother Caleb tales of their mother, who died in childbirth when he was born. When their father sents out an advertisement for a bride, he is answered by Sarah Elizabeth Wheaton of Maine. When Sarah comes to visit, Anna and Caleb immediately fall in love, and are desperate for her to stay. A sweet little tale, Sarah, Plain and Tall made the perfect audiobook for a road trip, coming in at only an hour long.
Anna & Caleb are two motherless children who live on a farm with their father. Sarah is a mail ordered bride candidate for their father. The story revolves around them getting to know Sarah and how she adapts to the environment which is a total opposite of the place where she grew up.
I LOVE this feel-good story. There’s not much of a conflict but you can feel the underlying insecurities of the two children and the desperation of wanting a mother. Both children are sweet and by the end of the book, I felt that it’s too short. Glad that there are 5 books in the series!
Patricia MacLachlan's Kindred Souls (YHBA 14-15 nom) inspired me to revisit Sarah, Plain and Tall. Apparently I suffer from some form of book amnesia because I read this as a grade school student, as a public librarian, and now for a third time as a school librarian and only bits of it seemed vaguely familiar. I do consider Sarah essential reading for grade levels studying westward expansion. Both MacLachlan books would be great mentor texts for teaching dialogue within writing workshop. #bookaday
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It's such a sweet, simple tale about learning to cope with change. At the moment, my 6-year-old daughter finds it boring for the lack of pictures. :) I look forward to the day I can share this book with her.
Boring, I remember reading it in school. But, I couldn't remember if I liked it or not. As an adult, I hated it.
I read this in elementary school, but couldn't remember much about it. It was a sweet story with some meaningful ideas.
My goodness, how nice to read something sweet and old-fashioned once in a while. My memories of this story come mostly from the movie version I saw as a kid, but I love this little book as well.