Mr. Schmidt wrote this story with his late wife, Anne Schmidt (Elizabeth Stickney is her pen name).
Mama wants a milk cow to help feed the baby. Papa and Samuel venture into the blustery winter day to trade objects until they can fulfill her wishes. Beginning with a Barlow knife and ending with a milk cow (plus something for Samuel), they meet a variety of interesting people who own intriguing objects/creatures.
Short chapters and full page illustrations make this a perfect book for readers trying to build stamina. It would also be a great book to read aloud to toddlers/preschoolers who are building listening-stamina.
Strategies: inferring, asking questions
Recommendation: This book is brimming with secondary characters. It would be helpful if the parent/teacher would make a list of each secondary character and what they gave for the trade/what they received for the trade.
*Highly recommend. A wholesome, sweet book.
Update: I reread this book as my thirteen-year-old read it for RAR family book club. Even he, an advanced reader and a teenager, found it delightful.
-Borrowed from the library.
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