Sarah, Plain and Tall
By Patricia MacLachlan
(HarperCollins, Hardcover, 9780060241018, 64pp.)
Publication Date: April 25, 1985
Other Editions of This Title: Library Binding, Paperback, Paperback, Prebound, Prebound
Categories: Classics, Family - Stepfamilies, Social Issues - New Experience
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"Did Mama sing every day?" Caleb asks his sister Anna."Every-single-day," she answers. "Papa too."
Patricia MacLachlan is the celebrated author of many timeless books for young readers, including Sarah, Plain and Tall, winner of the Newbery Medal. Her novels for young readers include Arthur, For the Very First Time; The Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt; Skylark; Calebs Story; More Perfect than the Moon; Grandfathers Dance; and Word After Word After Word. She is also the author of many much-loved picture books, including Three Names; All the Places to Love; What You Know First; Painting the Wind; Bittle; Who Loves Me?; Once I Ate a Pie; I Didn't Do It; and Before You Came, several of which she cowrote with her daughter, Emily. She lives with her husband and two border terriers in Williamsburg, Massachusetts.












