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| Home Place
(1990 Aladdin/Macmillan/Athenaeum. illustrations by Jerry Pinkney;
$14.95, hardcover; $4.95 paperback) |
- Over
150,000 copies in print
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Winner, Golden Kite Award, 1990
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 Every
year, the daffodils come up, even if there's no one to see them. Who
lived here? Where are they now? What were they like?
A young girl, walking in the woods with her family, finds “a piece of
plate… a china doll’s arm… a stone foundation scraped against the
earth,” among the flowers. She wonders about the past and its
inhabitants so vividly that she almost makes them come alive again. Or
does she? |
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Jerry Pinkney's lush, prismatic full-color paintings glow transcendently
in this magical, poignant meditation on time, place, character, and
mystery.
Home Place
has been a great favorite with children, teenagers, and adults alike for
more than fifteen years. |
| Critics Say |
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"Children love a mystery and this picture book will invite them to think
about the life cycle and the riddles of the past. Dragonwagon's short,
rhythmic lines, laid out like poetry, have a sometimes mystical,
sometimes conversational quality. Each full-page illustration lies
opposite a brief block of text printed on a soft bone-colored
background. The book has a simple dignity that is in complete harmony
with the tone set by the author and the illustrator. A wonderfully
evocative work." – School Library Journal |
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"This is a most remarkable and beautiful book – it swims along fluidly,
back and forth in time, moved by Dragonwagon's prose and Pinkney's
shimmering watercolors... the ordinary becomes extraordinary." –
American Bookseller |
| Teachers
Say |
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"The children
love
Home Place
as much as I do.
I encourage them to look for evidence of the past around here, and ask
them to imagine what or who might have once been there. I can so
identify with hiking in the woods and finding ghosts of the past. My
favorite place is in the woods near a lake where there is a cement dance
floor, the remains of a bridge, and an empty concrete swimming pool. It
was a place they held large dances and parties years and years ago. I
can almost see them dancing...deep in the woods, it must have been like
a fairy tale. It still is, to me."
-Kimberley
Ent, school
librarian, Hampden Elementary, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania |
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"A great book to use in a unit on archeology or communities. Wonderful,
absorbing and different." - Lynn Ellingwood, ESOL teacher,
Webster, New York |
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