Copper-Toed Boots (Great Lakes Books Series)

ISBN: 9780814326541

作者: Marguerite De Angeli

出版社: Wayne State University Press

出版年: 1996-09

页数: 96

定价: USD 18.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

Marguerite de Angeli was born in Lapeer, Michigan, in 1889. As a child, she loved to hear her father tell the story of the red leather-topped copper-toed boots he prized when he was a boy.Recreating the mischievous adventures of that boy through a Michigan summer, escapes to a time of "tradin" with schoolmates, "tradin" at the store, and picnicking during blackberry season. Children of all ages will delight in this realistic portratyal of mid-nineteenth century rural life. From classroom antics to the day the circus comes to town, Marguerite de Angeli vivdly depicts the folk happenings of a little American town.