Opa & Oma Together
- Hardcover, 32 pages, 11" x 8 1/2"
- September 2005
- ISBN-13: 978-1-59298-120-5
- ISBN-10: 1-59298-120-8
- Price: U.S. $15.95, CAN. $19.95
• MEET OPA & OMA (Yes, they are real people.)
• REVIEWS
Welcome! Meet Opa and Oma, grandparents who have
grown in life together on their farm. After fifty years, they still
tend their farm, teaching their grandchildren to care for the land
and its creatures.
This humble and peaceful story passes on valuable life lessons, drawing on the rural upbringing of the author and his six brothers and sisters, who received the gifts of roots and wings. Opa and Oma’s sixteen grandchildren now reap the benefits of the same lessons. The appealing simplicity of the story and illustrations creates a heartwarming glimpse of farm and family life.
Andrew Holmquist captures the beauty of the rolling farmscape and the teeming life of a farm as it undergoes a transition. The story and illustrations encapsulate not only one family’s change, as children move away from the farm, but that of a nation as well, as rural life gives way to urban society.
Families with connections to farm life, Americans of German heritage, and those who treasure family bonds will especially appreciate Opa & Oma Together.
Copyright © 2007 Patrick Mader ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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