From School Library Journal
Kindergarten-Grade 1AA warm story set in the past. A boy earns a quarter every weekend for getting up early and helping his father on their farm. He keeps the money in a cigar box and saves it to buy a baseball glove. When he and his dad take the train to town to buy new boots, he takes his savings just in case he sees a glove he can afford. They see one in the window of a sporting-goods store that has not yet opened for the day, and then go to a Cincinnati Reds game, where the boy loses the envelope containing his money. His dad then spends his boot money on the glove, explaining that his old boots can be glued to last a while longer. The story is told in the past tense from the boy's point of view, and is warm without being treacly. The realistic, gouache illustrations are filled with natural light and the slow motion of a fond memory, with a nostalgic tone similar to some of the scenes in the baseball movie The Natural.AChristine A. Moesch, Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, NY
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Ages 5^-8. Audie reminisces about growing up on a farm and the summer his father took him by train to see the Cincinnati Reds play. Although he enjoys the game very much, Audie is looking forward most to shopping for a baseball glove with the hard-earned quarters he has saved. The boy is crushed when his money disappears, but Papa forgoes new boots for himself to purchase the glove for his son. Shed's gouache on canvas artwork is rich in sepia tones that offer a pleasantly nostalgic look at a Norman Rockwell era. Although the theme of sacrificing for one's children will be lost on young audiences, baseball fans will appreciate this rich family story.
Kay Weisman
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