Talking brings it near again,
the sweet taste of new bread in a Dakota dugout,
how the grass whispered like an old friend,
how the earth kept us warm.
A woman tells her granddaughter what it was like to live in a sod house on the Dakota prairie a century ago. She went there as a young bride . . . and cried when she saw it. Her first year was hard and lonely–a cold winter, a spring slow in coming, a summer drought. Finally, the crops took hold, and the young couple was able to build a clapboard house "with windows like suns."
Ann Turner's poetic text and Ronald Himler's sensitive drawings describe life on the prairie as the pioneers knew it. Text and art combine to make an unforgettable experience for every reader.
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