When Betty and I were in elementary school, the library was attached to the school. Both of us being avid readers,, we loved going there and carrying stacks of books home. We didn't have a book store in Cochran, and except for the annual ordering of Scholastic paperbacks, buying books was a very rare treat.
My favorite author and illustrator was Lois Lenski who published so many beautiful books for children in her lifetime.
The one I read more than once, probably more than twice, was Mama Hattie's Girl. Many of Lenski's books feature children who live in different parts of the country, and reading her books was a kind of travel. Seeing these online evokes such nostalgia.
Now it is only available through Kindle and expensive collectors' editions. The library used to have it, but they took it out of circulation.
Here are some of the illustrations that are so characteristic of Lois Lenski's books:
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