Clara and the Bookwagon: (I Can Read Book Series: Level 3) by Nancy Smiler Levinson, Carolyn Croll (Illustrator), Carolyn Croll (Photographer)
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(Paperback - Reprint)
- Age Range: 5 to 8
- Pub. Date: January 1991
- 64pp
- Sales Rank: 42,655
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Product Details
- Series: I Can Read Book 3 Series
- ISBN-13: 9780064441346
- ISBN: 0064441342
- Edition Number: 97
- Edition Description: Reprint
Synopsis
Papa will not allow Clara to learn to read—he says that ‘Farm people like us do not have time to read." But when the traveling bookwagon, with persuasive Miss Mary at the reins, arrives at their farm, Papa realizes he must change his mind. Based on the true story of America’s first ‘bookmobile.’
Annotation
Clara's dream of enriching her rough life on the family farm is fulfilled when a horse-drawn book wagon visits with the country's first traveling library.
Children's Literature
Clara yearns for books to enrich her rough life on a Maryland farm, but Papa says, "Books are for rich people." When two horses drawing the nation's first traveling book wagon clip-clop up the country road, it seems Clara's dreams may come true. Based on a true account and filled with historic detail circa 1905. 1991 (orig.
More Reviews and RecommendationsBiography
Nancy Smiler Levinson has written many popular books for young readers, including Magellan and the First Voyange Around the World and the I Can Read Books Clara and the Bookwagon, illustrated by Carolyn Croll, and Snowshoe Thompson, illustrated by Joan Sandin. She lives in Beverly Hills, California.
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