Yonder

by Johnston, Tony; Bloom, Lloyd

• ISBN13: 9781586851804
• ISBN10: 1586851802
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-07-01
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith

Summary

Tony Johnston majored in history at Stanford University, and is the author of many books, including Desert Dog and Desert Song. Born in Los Angeles, she now resides in San Marino, California. Illustrator Lloyd Bloom holds a master's degree in fine arts from Indiana University. An illustrator and painter, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Table of Contents

Yonder is a farmer on a jet black horse. Yonder are the hills taht roll forever . . . Come visit a time and place where one family's life began--yonder. Way over yonder, sometime in the nineteenth century, a young farmer plants a plum tree. The farmer marries, plows the land, and sheds his solitary way of life. Children, then grandchildren, are born; summer melts in to blazing autumn, into frozen winter; the plum tree blossoms and sheds its blossoms; the farmer grows old. Gradually on family's history is illuminated till it becomes as vivid as our own. Readers of all ages will be moved by the graceful simplicity of Tony Johnston and Lloyd Bloom's book. Here is a loving tribute to the family that gleans from life's ordinary passages a perennial--and extraordinary--beauty.