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Home Place (Dragonwagon book)

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Home Place
First edition
AuthorCrescent Dragonwagon
IllustratorJerry Pinkney
LanguageEnglish
GenreChildren's literature, picture book
Published1990 (Macmillan)
Publication placeUSA
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages32 (unpaginated)
ISBN9780027331905
OCLC19739875

Home Place is a 1990 book written by Crescent Dragonwagon and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney about a family who comes across the remains of a homestead and a girl who imagines what that family was like.

Reception

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Publishers Weekly, in a review of Home Place, wrote "With striking craft, Dragonwagon limns a forgotten family's day-to-day existence. Pinkney's characteristically stunning, limpid watercolors are lush in shades of greens and browns, with touches of vibrant yellow in the flowers."[1] and School Library Journal called it " A wonderfully evocative work."[2]

Home Place has also been reviewed by Booklist,[3] and Kirkus Reviews[4]

It received the 1991 Golden Kite Picture book Award.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Half a Moon and One Whole Star". Publishers Weekly. PWxyz LLC. August 1, 1990. Retrieved February 10, 2017.
  2. ^ "Home Place: Reviews". catalog.wccls.org. Retrieved February 10, 2017.
  3. ^ "Home place". Buffalo and Erie County Public Library. Retrieved February 10, 2017. This mood piece captures that quiet, reflective feeling a country hike can prompt. As always, Pinkney's watercolors are lush and memorable.
  4. ^ "Home Place". Kirkus Reviews. Kirkus Media LLC. Retrieved February 10, 2017. A pleasant exercise in imaginative nostalgia.
  5. ^ "Past Golden Kite Recipients". scbwi.org. Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. Archived from the original on May 16, 2021. Retrieved February 10, 2017.