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Ma Dear's Aprons
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Ma Dear's Aprons Paperback - 2000

by Patricia C. McKissack; Floyd Cooper (Illustrator)

This touching portrait of a turn-of-the-century Southern family that understands what's truly important is based on the life of the author's own great-grandmother. Full color.


Summary

Little David Earl always knows what day of the week it is. He can tell by the clean, snappy-fresh apron Ma Dear is wearing -- a different color for every day. Monday means washing, with Ma Dear scrubbing at her tub in a blue apron. Tuesday is ironing, in a sunshine yellow apron that brightens Ma's spirits. And so it goes until Sunday, when Ma Dear doesn't have to wear an apron and they can set aside some special no-work time, just for themselves.
In their first collaboration, Newbery Honor author Patricia McKissack and award-winninng illustrator Floyd Cooper lovingly recreate a slice of turn-of-the-century Southern life as it was for a single African-American mother and her son.

First line

David Earl always knows what day of the week it is.

From the rear cover

Little David Earl always knows what day of the week it is. He can tell by the clean, snappy-fresh apron Ma Dear is wearing -- a different color for every day. Monday means washing, with Ma Dear scrubbing at her tub in a blue apron. Tuesday is ironing, in a sunshine yellow apron that brightens Ma's spirits. And so it goes until Sunday, when Ma Dear doesn't have to wear an apron and they can set aside some special no-work time, just for themselves.

In their first collaboration, Newbery Honor author Patricia McKissack and award-winning illustrator Floyd Cooper lovingly recreate a slice of turn-of-the-century Southern life as it was for a single African-American mother and her son.

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  • Title Ma Dear's Aprons
  • Author Patricia C. McKissack; Floyd Cooper (Illustrator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 32
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Aladdin Paperbacks, New York
  • Date 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780689832628 / 0689832621
  • Weight 0.32 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.91 x 8.48 x 0.14 in (27.71 x 21.54 x 0.36 cm)
  • Ages 05 to 08 years
  • Grade levels K - 3
  • Reading level 800
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Mothers and sons, Aprons
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94048450
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

Citations

  • Booklist, 02/15/2001, Page 1161
  • Publishers Weekly, 12/20/1999, Page 82

About the author

Patricia C. McKissack is the author of many highly acclaimed books for children, including Goin' Someplace Special, a Coretta Scott King Award winner; The Honest-to-Goodness Truth; Let My People Go, written with her husband, Fredrick, and recipient of the NAACP Image Award; The Dark-Thirty, a Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Award winner; and Mirandy and Brother Wind, recipient of the Caldecott Medal and a Coretta Scott King Honor Book. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

Floyd Cooper received a Coretta Scott King Award for his illustrations in The Blacker the Berry and a Coretta Scott King Honor for his illustrations in Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea, Meet Danitra Brown, and I Have Heard of a Land. Born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Mr. Cooper received a degree in fine arts from the University of Oklahoma and, after graduating, worked as an artist for a major greeting card company. In 1984, he came to New York City to pursue a career as an illustrator of books and now lives in Easton, Pennsylvania, with his wife and children.

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