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story about a working family in the South around the's, Written in first person, with a southern accent, to make it more life like,

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Picking cotton by hand from the perspective of a migrant worker child working with her family, Text is okay. Art is stunning, vivid and big, It's a long day and it's captured well enough here to make you tired, A day in the life of a migrant cotton worker as told through the eyes of a young girl is the premise of Working Cotton.
Gorgeous acrylic paint illustrations help the story along, but the words are much too simple and easygoing to fully describe the hardship and long working hours put in by these determined people.
This is a beautifully illustrated book in the mixed style of impressionism and watercolor, It is based on a young African American girl that comes from a family that picks cotton on the field from the crack of dawn to late into the night.
With beauty and a sense of both pain and pleasure, Sherley Anne Williams describes the typical backbreaking day of a family of African American iterant migrant farm workers who are harvesting cotton.
Narrator Shelan who is one of the children, and all of the children, except for baby Leanne, must in fact help with the harvesting describes how the whole family arrives before dawn and labours until nightfall to fill their sacks with cotton, with fluffy white clouds that might smell like morning and sweetness but still require much toil and effort to collect, to glean.
Both poetic and at times also realistically harsh, Shelans narration is entirely presented in her dialect, her familys vernacular, and although especially the phrasing and the verb endings or rather, the lack thereof may indeed require careful reading for not only children, but potentially also for adults reading Working Cotton with or to children, this most definitely and appreciatively adds necessary authenticity and colour, as a difficult way of life is depicted.


However, Sherley Ann Williams also does in not in any way pass a negative judgment here, as while the work in the cotton field is difficult and arduous, her characters sing and play, are conscious of the beauty around them and are above all proud of a job welldone that the father can fill his sacks not only in record time, but that there is so much harvested cotton it takes a long time to empty into the waiting trailer.
Carol M. Byards accompanying acrylic paintings capture not only the beauty of the land but also the struggle and intensity of manual farm work clearly demonstrating and showing, for example, that hand picking cotton all day is, indeed, hot and sweaty work.
And while some readers might well object to the mere concept of African Americans being depicted as picking cotton in a picture book geared towards younger children, Shelans family has obviously embraced this way of life, doing what it takes to make ends meet, to earn a wage.
Recommended, although personally, I sure would appreciate and even rather require a bit more in the authors note with regard to manual farm labour and farming tasks in a general and panglobal sense, as this is really an international given and issue for example, in many parts of Southern Germany and Austria, children actually still get school holidays during the fall potato harvest, as all hands are required on family farms, and thus Sherley Ann Williams' supplemental note, while definitely evocative, important and educational is also for me rather too limited, and not nearly international enough in scope.
This is a Caldecott Honor book and the illustrations clearly identify with that, I enjoyed this book being from a child's point of view about their work in the cotton fields because students would be able to relate to the child while reading.
You could read this book when talking about the South and slavery,Caldecott Honor Favorite Illustration: Where the family first gets to the field and is spread out working together,
This is a beautiful book that tells the story of a family of migrant workers, I especially love the author's note about the necessity of fixing a broken system where children must work in the fields to help their family survive.
This is a tale of a young child who works with her family picking cotton, The narrative is in a southern dialect and some children may have trouble with the grammar, but it adds to the authenticity of this child's experience.


I loved the author's note at the beginning of the book it's very poignant and still reflective of the limited options for children who live in poverty:

"Our shame as a nation is not that so many children work the fields but that so few of them have other options, that the life chances of too many are defined by the cycle of the seasons.
In environments characterized by minimums minimum wages, minimum shelters, minimum food and education individual character, the love of a family, can do so much the rest is up to the country.
" p.

The illustrations for this book were created with acrylic paints and many of the scenes have an impressionistic style, and the faces of the people are very expressive.
The narrative is very short and would be appropriate for a group read aloud, I really enjoyed reading this book together,

This book was selected as one of the books for the sitelinkNovemberCaldecott Honor discussion at the sitelinkPictureBook Club in the Children's Books Group here at Goodreads.
A standalone picture book that reflects Williams early life as a child in the cotton fields in Fresno,

In, Working Cotton won the Caldecott Honor and the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrator Honor, And I thoroughly understand why!

My Take
Theres a rhythmic quality to Williams words as she remembers her childhood, as she pulls you in with that dreamy quality, in to Shelans world, to show you what a day in the fields was like.
The sense of competition between the sisters, that need to be like each other and yet not, Especially, laughing, as Shelan wishes to both grow up and be young enough to sit at the end of the row and watch the baby.


The manner in which Williams manipulates the grammar and sentence structure is another way to pull you in and indicates Shelans educational level.


I know Byards illustrations are in acrylics it says so in the front of the book! But theres a feel of pastels about these intense colors, the soft smudgy feel

of the graphics that make you feel the seriousness of it as well as that dreamy feel of Williams memories.


Its a beautifully illustrated and written story of a day in the life of a family picking cotton,

The Story
Its cold that early in the morning, although the day will heat up fast enough, Shelan notes.

Im growing up, but not enough yet to have my own sack while Daddy picks cotton so fast that you never see him do it while Mamma sings to while the day away.


The Characters
Shelan is the young girl, the storyteller her sisters include Ruise, Jesmarie, and baby Leanne.
Mamma and Daddy are the kind of people who should have children, God knows, thats rare enough!

The Cover and Title
The cover has an Impressionist feel to it with its hazy cotton, blue summer sky, and Shelan in her turquoise green dress and brown jacket.
The title is in a white serif font with an orange outline,

The title is what the day is all about, Working Cotton, A standalone picture book that reflects Williams' early life as a child in the cotton fields in Fresno, In, Working Cotton won the Caldecott Honor and the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrator Honor, And I thoroughly understand why!

My Take
There's a rhythmic quality to Williams' words as she remembers her childhood, as she pulls you in with that dreamy quality, in to Shelan's world, to show you what a day in the fields was like.
The sense of competition between the sisters, that need to be like each other and yet not, Especially, laughing, as Shelan wishes to both grow up and be young enough to sit at the end of the row and watch the baby.


The manner in which Williams manipulates the grammar and sentence structure is another way to pull you in and indicates Shelan's educational level.


I know Byard's illustrations are in acrylics it says so in the front of the book! But there's a feel of pastels about these intense colors, the soft smudgy feel of the graphics that make you feel the seriousness of it as well as that dreamy feel of Williams' memories.


It's a beautifully illustrated and written story of a day in the life of a family picking cotton,

The Story
It's cold that early in the morning, although the day will heat up fast enough, Shelan notes.


I'm growing up, but not enough yet to have my own sack while Daddy picks cotton so fast that you never see him do it while Mamma sings to while the day away.


The Characters
Shelan is the young girl, the storyteller her sisters include Ruise, Jesmarie, and baby Leanne.
Mamma and Daddy are the kind of people who should have children, God knows, that's rare enough!

The Cover and Title
The cover has an Impressionist feel to it with its hazy cotton, blue summer sky, and Shelan in her turquoise green dress and brown jacket.
The title is in a white serif font with an orange outline,

The title is what the day is all about, Working Cotton, .