The hard- times jar /
Smothers, Ethel Footman
The hard- times jar / Ethel Footman Smothers; pictures by John Holyfield. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2003. - unnumbered pages.
Emma Turner loves books and dreams of one day having the store-bought kind, but the Turners are migrant workers and money is tight. That means ''no extras,'' so Emma must be content to make up her own stories. Emma has a plan though- she's going to save all the money she earns picking apples and put it in Mama's hard-times jar. Then there will surely be enough for extras. But when Mama tells Emma that this year she has to go to school instead of to work, it spoils everything. Now she will never own a store-bought book! But school turns out to have a wonderful surprise in store for Emma. Ethel Footman Smother's story, based on her own childhood, is brought to life by John Holyfield's lush and vivid paintings, giving us a touching portrait of a book- hungry child.
9780374328528
Migrant labor -- Juvenile fiction. Books and reading -- Juvenile fiction. African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
The hard- times jar / Ethel Footman Smothers; pictures by John Holyfield. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2003. - unnumbered pages.
Emma Turner loves books and dreams of one day having the store-bought kind, but the Turners are migrant workers and money is tight. That means ''no extras,'' so Emma must be content to make up her own stories. Emma has a plan though- she's going to save all the money she earns picking apples and put it in Mama's hard-times jar. Then there will surely be enough for extras. But when Mama tells Emma that this year she has to go to school instead of to work, it spoils everything. Now she will never own a store-bought book! But school turns out to have a wonderful surprise in store for Emma. Ethel Footman Smother's story, based on her own childhood, is brought to life by John Holyfield's lush and vivid paintings, giving us a touching portrait of a book- hungry child.
9780374328528
Migrant labor -- Juvenile fiction. Books and reading -- Juvenile fiction. African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.