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Title: Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass by Gary Paulsen, Ruth Wright Paulsen ISBN: 0-15-118101-2 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: September, 1992 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Practical environmentalism...
Comment: Mr. Paulson writes a beautiful, touching, book that reflects his undying love of nature and the land. Take the time to read the forward to the book that explains the motive behind it's writing. Picture the two men sitting next to the deceased workhorse as the farmer unravels his story of his life and his land. Contrast the respect for the land and nature's cycles of "old time" farmers, versus the "forced yields" of today's factory farms. I have read this book several times and each time I gain a greater knowledge and respect for the wonders Mother Earth reveals, if you treat her with respect and take the time to listen. I have recomended this book to dozens of people - city and country folk alike - and all have been glad that I did so. Every person who has felt a link or calling to the earth should read this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: This *Is* the Way It Was.
Comment: I grew up on a small family farm in rural Michigan, the type of farm that was vanishing even as I grew up on it. Since I grew up in the 1950's, many of the episodes and scenarios depicted in Gary Paulsen's Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass pre-date my youth, but enough do not that I can assure you that Paulsen has captured the sights, the sounds, the tastes, the smells and even the textures of the events he pictures in words. New calves, for example do not know how to drink from a bucket and must be taught, because the purpose of having a dairy cow is the sale of her milk, and if the calf is allowed to suck, it will as Paulsen says "ruin the cow for milking," while the calf cannot possibly consume all of the milk the cow produces. "So when the cows were milked a small amount was poured into a bucket and the children had to teach them how to drink. They would suck on anything, the ends of our coats, mittens, ears, and we would stick our fingers in their mouths and start them sucking and lower our hands into the warm milk in the bucket so they would suck the milk up through our fingers. It took them only a short time to learn to suck the milk directly, slamming their heads into the buckets as they would slam them into the cow to make the milk flow so that milk splashed up and out and into our faces, down our clothes, hot new milk, spring milk." Or as he says of milking, "the hands work in a rhythm as old as all rhythms, the rhythm that is the giving of milk, so that the person becomes the calf and the cow the mother and the milk hisses and sputters into the white foam." For those who have never known farm life, Gary Paulsen's poetic prose will provide a vivid and accurate picture of life as it used to be on the family farm. For those who, like my 80-year-old father, knew the family farm of the 1920's-1950's, this book will evoke rich memories. For those of us who knew farm life afterward, the memories will be selective. But they're there. They're there.
Rating: 1
Summary: Beautiful Illustrations
Comment: Working together, getting along and working...working, these are some of the things Gary Paulsen describes in his book Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass. It's a non-fiction book about the four seasons on a farm. The farmer's main conflicts are working on the land and dealing with hard times. For example, the frost might ruin the crop or kill the wheat they were growing, and they wouldn't have any of the wheat. My opinion about this book was -- it's boring. The plot was slow, confusing and the story had no characters. When I picked up this book, I thought it would have a character, but I was disappointed when it didn't. But there were some good things about the book. There were great illustrations, and good descriptions. For example, Gary Paulsen described how winter "would die, would die, would die and be over with." If you are interested in farms and great illustrations, you'll like this book.
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Title: Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod by Gary Paulsen ISBN: 0156001454 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 17 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Eastern Sun, Winter Moon: An Autobiographical Odyssey by Gary Paulsen ISBN: 0156002035 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 09 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Father Water, Mother Woods by Ruth Wright Paulsen, Gary Paulsen ISBN: 0440219841 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: Guts by Gary Paulsen ISBN: 0440407125 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 12 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: My Life in Dog Years by Gary Paulsen ISBN: 0440414717 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 08 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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