Dad Gummit & Ma Foot

by Karen Waggoner

Book Overview

After fifty years of estrangement following a quarrel, two sweethearts finally get together again with the help of a cow and blackberry patch. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0531058913
• ISBN13: 9780531058916
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Orchard Books (NY)
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Beautifully illustrated children's book

This children's picture book tells the story of Thomas and Clara whose misunderstanding spans five decades. The two were orginally engaged to be married, but come home from a church picnic not speaking to each other. They spend the next fifty years living singly, and it isn't until each plays a sneaky visit to the other's farm that they meet again. Will they resolve their quarrel?This book was beautifully illustrated with watercolors. I did feel sorry for the main characters' spending most of their lives apart before getting a chance to resolve their problems. Children will like the pictures; but adults will understand the story better.