Product Description

A Children's classic back in print, Yoner is the story of a young farmer who plants a plum tree - and how that tree becomes a living illumination of his family's history. Readers of all ages will be moved by the graceful simplicity of Tony Johnston's loving tribute to life's ordinary passages.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1963915 in Books
• Published on: 1991-05-01
• Dimensions: .73" h x 5.02" w x 8.06" l,
• Binding: Paperback
• 1 pages

From Publishers Weekly
First published in 1988, Yonder by Tony Johnston, illus. by Lloyd Bloom, uses a plum tree to trace the generations of a 19th-century farm family. "There comes the farmer with a brand-new bride,/ Riding down the hills that roll forever." Bloom's lush oils capture the verdant hillside and the country's untamed beauty.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal
Kindergarten-Grade 2 The lives of a 19th-Century farming family unfold with the gentle rolling rhythms of Johnston's text. Each page reveals another event (marriages, births, deaths), which the family celebrates by planting another tree. The natural rhythms are reinforced, as every fourth line of text repeats the refrain, ``There. Just over there,'' effectively including readers in the setting and building a textual bridge between words and pictures. It is Bloom's primitive, lush oil paintings that really give Yonder its energy, though. The changes in a growing plum tree mark the family's changes. Human bonds echo through the pages, from one generation to the next, in poses and postures effectively conveyed with line. Striking use of color, notably greens with purples, creates happy contrasts in the environment, and often highlights people. Here is a book that will be a welcome historical note at story time, or loved by thoughtful independent readers. Carolyn Noah, Worcester Public Library, Mass.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Ingram
Johnston's exquisite poem and Bloom's extraordinary paintings illuminate a family's history until it begins to match that of readers. 31 full-color illustrations.