"I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall." A heartwarming story about two children, Anna and Caleb, whose lives are changed forever when their widowed papa advertises for a mail-order bride. Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton from Maine answers the ad and agrees to come for a month. Sarah brings gifts from the sea, a cat named Seal, and singing and laughter to the quiet house. But will she like it enough to stay? Anna and Caleb wait and wonder -- and hope. Performed by Glenn Close

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1 hour and 1 minute
Author

Patricia MacLachlan
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Glenn Close
Audible release date

November 18, 2008
Language

English
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HarperAudio
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B001LNK9DS
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Unabridged
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	Skylark	Caleb's Story	More Perfect Than the Moon	Grandfather's Dance
Sarah, Plain and Tall Series	Book Two	Book Three	Book Four	Book Five
	In this stunning sequel to Newbery Medal winner Sarah, Plain and Tall, Anna and Caleb travel with their new mother, Sarah, to Maine to take refuge from the prairie drought.	Only the special love of Caleb, and the gift he offers his grandfather, can help to mend the pain of the past.	More Perfect than the Moon continues the classic tale of the Witting family’s life on the prairie, in the lyrical style that Newbery Medal-winning author Patricia MacLachlan has made her own.	But as Cassie begins to understand different kinds of love, be it between Anna and Justin or her brother Jack and Grandfather, she learns that sometimes the hardest part about loving someone is having to say goodbye.


	My Father's Words	The Poet's Dog	Kindred Souls	The Truth of Me	Word After Word After Word
More books from Patricia MacLachlan	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓

Product details

Listening Length	1 hour and 1 minute
Author	Patricia MacLachlan
Narrator	Glenn Close
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com Release Date	November 18, 2008
Publisher	HarperAudio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B001LNK9DS
Best Sellers Rank	#18,190 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #103 in Family Life Fiction for Children #108 in Fiction Classics for Children #233 in Growing Up & Facts of Life for Children

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Fun easy to read story

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 7, 2023

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This was the first chapter book I read as a 7-year old. I enjoyed the story and was rather pleased with myself for completing a longer book. When I recently was attending a 7-year old's birthday party as an adult, knowing that she loves books, I decided to give her three of my favorite books from when I was her age. This was one of them!

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Good read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 27, 2023

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I bought this book for my granddaughter because she is into this period in history. I gave it 4 stars because she hasn't read it yet but I did years ago and liked it but waiting to see what she thinks about it.

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Graham H. Seibert

An ideal text for teaching English as a foreign language.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 22, 2018

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I chose this text is instructional material for Ukrainian middle schoolers learning English. Let me list the things that made it attractive:

1. It is short enough, at about 1000 Kindle locations, to cover in 8 weeks or so.

2. It is relatively easy to read. The online Flesch-Kincaid reading difficulty analyzer puts it at about a fourth grade level. It contains about 1400 unique words, of which I have selected about 500 as target vocabulary. I expect my students already know about half of these words. The issue is that I don't know which half, so I make the list rather inclusive.

3. It is at their intellectual level. Last year I taught Wayside School is Falling Down. It fully satisfies the readability criteria, but the subject matter is more appropriate to second or third graders than middle schoolers.

4. It tells something of American history. They learn about American farming and mail-order brides, two topics with which Ukrainian children can somewhat identify. I had hoped it might lead to a discussion of sex roles in society, but these children have not shown interest. At 12 years old they are too young. American educators – take note. If the children want to remain children, let them!

I'm trying an approach that I have not seen before. I am using video as a primary educational vehicle. I have prepared videos that show the text of the book in a column on the left, with translations of the vocabulary words and words that are needed for comprehension on the right. My hope is that by presenting them with the translations they can largely avoid getting tangled up with dictionaries. I read the text as it is displayed. I have broken the book out by chapters (there are 9) with a video for each of them, with the homework assignment included in the video. This ensures that they get the homework, and more than that, that they look at the video.

I will be happy to share my materials with any foreign language teacher. Only about 10% of my preparation has been specific to the Ukrainian and Russian languages. My work could be adapted to other languages and teaching environments. The instructor would need to review my list of unique words to decide for themselves which constitute a target vocabulary. The instructor could easily record the narration themselves, personalizing the presentation, and of course make up their own homework.

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Whitney Tufte

Got the job done

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 24, 2022

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Needed the book for a school class it was all right exceeded my expectations just a classic school book

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Kate

Great Book!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 24, 2013

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My third grade class wrote reviews of this book in class. The class voted and these were the top three:

This book was about two children who lived with their father-two children who beeded a mother! The book was set in the 1900's on the plains. The father seperately needed a wife, so he put an ad in the newspaper. He got a replay! The lady's name was Sarah. She came from Maine and she was "Plain and Tall." Sarah wants to check the family out! Sarah was my favorite character, but I liked everyone. I liked Sarah because she loved animals and had her own mind-she was stubborn. I can relate to that. I liked this book because it was interesting; I had to know what would happen! I also liked this book because the children needed a mother and they got one. They had a bit to learn about the awesome ocean and Sarah had to learn about life on the plains. I would recommend this book to children in second through fifth grade and all the people who like old fashioned stuff. Finally, I would positively recommend this book to all the people who are interested in a heartwarming story.
By Brooke

This book is about a family with a father, a daughter, and a son living on the prairie in the early 1900's. The father put an ad in the paper for a new wife. A woman from Maine answred the ad and traveled by train to get to the prairie. My favorite character in the book was Caleb because he would always make you laugh. I liked this book becasue it had a great setting, great characters, and great lines for characters to say. I would recommend this book for 2nd grade kids.
By Zander

This book was about two children that lived with their father. They lived on the prairie in the early 1900's. The father tried to find a wife by putting an ad in the paper. There is a woman that responds. My favorite character in the book was Anna because she takes care of her father and her brother. She cooks, she cleans, and she helps Caleb to remember who his mom was. I liked this book because this story reminds me of when my Uncle Luey was always taking care of my three grandmas, just like Anna took good care of Caleb and her father. I would recommend this book to people who have had their mom or wife die because you can always have love again or a new mom.
By Audrey

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s.cady

Easy read for young readers

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 28, 2022

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Gifted it to my grandaughter

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Beautiful stories. Not my favorite audio

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 24, 2021

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I love these books, especially the first one. I recently decided to share them with my kids. I bought the audiobooks so they could listen and read along after we read together the first time. We all enjoyed it together!

My only real gripe is that she uses voices. I wish she had just read it with her normal voice. In the first book especially, the voices were just odd to me. I have listened to a lot of audiobooks, so I can appreciate when it's done well. The second and third weren't quite as bad as the first. It just grated on my nerves for some reason. I don't mind them doing differnet voices in audiobooks generally, but this one just didn't do it for me. I still enjoyed the stories, and we will listen to them again. It's just not the best audiobook I've heard.

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Bonita

It's a lovely book on a Family struggling and getting through on a Farm on the Prairie

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 26, 2019

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Saw the film of this book on youtube. Loved it! It's a lovely children's book on how hard it was on the prairie and how some children lost their Mum. Their Father who loved them found a new wife. His Wife had died in Child-birth. This new wife the Children and their Dad got to love very much. She helped them where they struggled with different tasks on the Farm. It really is a good book to read!

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 3, 2015

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My kids enjoyed reading this book

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Brendie O

It's alright

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 26, 2022

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This is not an amazing book, it's alright. The author could have done a better job portraying what life was like back then. Story line is sweet. Characters could have been better-developed as well.

Chiara H.

Short simple story about love and taking chances

Reviewed in Italy 🇮🇹 on January 1, 2016

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What a sweet story about two children who hope and pray that Sarah will stay with them forever and become their new mother. Written in a very simple style, this book is a fast read. The emotions that the children feel are very clear and all of the characters are well-written. Highly recommend for ages 8+.

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great voice

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 21, 2019

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the contents of the book people may find uncomfortable, but it was written based on a different time. so it is more or less reflecting the realities of historical times

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