Little David Earl always knows what day of the week it is.
He can tell by the clean, snappy-fresh apron Ma Dear is wearing --
a different color for every day. Monday means washing, with Ma Dear
scrubbing at her tub in a blue apron. Tuesday is ironing, in a
sunshine yellow apron that brightens Ma''s spirits. And so it goes
until Sunday, when Ma Dear doesn''t have to wear an apron and they
can set aside some special no-work time, just for themselves.In
their first collaboration, Newbery Honor author Patricia McKissack
and award-winninng illustrator Floyd Cooper lovingly recreate a
slice of turn-of-the-century Southern life as it was for a single
African-American mother and her son.
關於作者:
Patricia C. McKissack is the author of many highly acclaimed
books for children, including Goin'' Someplace Special, a Coretta
Scott King Award
winner; The Honest-to-Goodness Truth; Let My People Go, written
with her
husband, Fredrick, and recipient of the NAACP Image Award; The
Dark-Thirty, a Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Award
winner; and Mirandy and Brother Wind, recipient of the Caldecott
Medal and a Coretta Scott King Honor Book. She lives in St. Louis,
Missouri.