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Summary
The Picture the Past series looks at the many kinds of communities in America's past. Each book describes what made each community different and what children and adults did each day. Life in the Dust Bowl In this book, discover what life was like on the Great Plains in the 1930s. Learn how dry weather and wind storms created the Dust Bowl. Travel with families who left their farms and moved to California. Visit camps where the families stayed until they built new homes. Then use a recipe to make a popular food from the time-meat stew!
Author Notes
Author Sally Senzell Isaacs was born in 1950 and grew up in Evansville, Indiana. She graduated from Indiana University, where she majored in American history and sociology. She has written over 30 children's books dealing with American history. Her book Cattle Trails and Cowboys won the first June Franklin Naylor Award for the Best Book for Children on Texas History.
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School Library Journal Review
Gr 2-4-An ideal introduction to a topic that children are learning about at younger and younger ages. Logically arranged and with clear text, the book describes life in this area between 1931 and 1938, how and why such hardships happened, and how the weather conditions affected adults and youngsters alike. Attention is given to the culture of the time, such as popular movies and comic books, and the subsequent lives of migrant workers, including a recipe for meat stew as it may have been prepared over a campfire. Special effort is made to help children relate, if even on a basic level, to the experiences of their counterparts in the 1930s. The double-page chapters are smartly limited to one large-type paragraph per leaf, a sidebar, and captioned pictures. Period photographs perfectly illustrate the time and place and are the book's greatest strength (so beware of scissors). A good choice for booktalking nonfiction in the early grades.-Andrew Medlar, Chicago Public Library, IL (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
