![]() ![]() ![]() One day, he decides to take it for a drive. This picture book from the 1930s is absolutely charming in is vintage illustrations yet I think it would also appeal to children today who are interested in cars and/or the nuances of how things go and the activities that adults do. ![]() In Journey Into Childhood, Lenski wrote that she was struck by the fact that there were "plenty of books that tell how children live in Alaska, Holland, China, and Mexico, but no books at all telling about the many ways children live here in the United States" What interested me most was the way children were living" (183). ![]() I saw and learned what the word region meant as I witnessed firsthand different ways of life unlike my own. Lenski wrote in her autobiography, "On my trips south I saw the real America for the first time. As a result, Lenski and her husband Arthur Covey traveled south each fall. Probably her most famous set is the following:īeginning with Bayou Suzette in 1943, Lois Lenski began writing a series of books which would become known as her "regional series." In the early 1940s Lenski, who suffered from periodic bouts of ill-health, was told by her doctor that she needed to spend the winter months in a warmer climate than her Connecticut home. Many of Lenski's books can be collated into 'series' - but since they don't have to be read in order, you may be better off just looking for more information here. ![]()
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