Book Descriptions
for Dakota Dugout by Ann Turner and Ronald Himler
From Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC)
Black and white drawings and a spare text express some of the harsh elements of prairie life in a sod house: "Dirt fell on our bed,/snakes sometimes, too,/and the buffalo hide door/could not keep out the wind/or the empty cries in the long grass." (Age 7 and older)
CCBC Choices 1985 . © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1985. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
Tell you about the prairie years? I'll tell you, child, how it was.
And through a combination of spare, poetic text and expansive illustrations, readers can learn of life on the prairie as the settlers knew it -- seen through the eyes of a woman who lived there a century ago.
And through a combination of spare, poetic text and expansive illustrations, readers can learn of life on the prairie as the settlers knew it -- seen through the eyes of a woman who lived there a century ago.
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