![]() ![]() ©1985, 1994, 2001 Patricia MacLachlan (P)2003 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. ![]() This collection includes the first three books in the series: Sarah, Plain and Tall Skylark and Caleb's Story. Sarah, Plain and Tall gently explores themes of abandonment, loss and love. This children's literature classic is perfect for fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books, historical fiction, and timeless stories using rich and beautiful language. Will Sarah be nice? Will she sing? Will she stay? Instead, it emphasizes the humanity of characters who yearn to be loved but fear they may be unworthy of love. It is not a tale of wild action or frightful events. Before Sarah arrives, Anna and her younger brother Caleb wait and wonder. Sarah, Plain and Tall is a simple story of a family that needs a mother and of the woman who gradually fills this need. Set in the late 19th century and told from young Anna's point of view, Sarah, Plain and Tall tells the story of how Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton comes from Maine to the prairie to answer Papa's advertisement for a wife and mother. ![]() The Newbery Medal-winning Sarah, Plain and Tall is the first of five books in Patricia MacLachlan's chapter book series about the Witting family. The child Anna tells of Sarahs arrival and the uncertainty everyone feels about whether she will stay. Sarah comes from Maine to a simple pioneer homestead in response to an ad for a wife and mother. "Did Mama sing every day?" Caleb asks his sister Anna. Sarah, Plain and Tall is a story of fulfillment and love. ![]()
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