Sod Houses on the Great Plains

By Glen Rounds

Book Overview

How sod houses were built and lived in. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823411621
• ISBN13: 9780823411627
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Holiday House
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 10.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

This is a simple children's book

If you are genuinely interested in how sod houses were built and lived in, you should know that the illustrations are very crude and the information is given at elementary school level. The internet is a much better source of information if you really want to know how they were built and about genuine experiences living in them on the plains.

THE WAY WE WERE

Born in a sod house in North Dakota, Glen Rounds well knows of what he writes. His discerningly spare illustrations and trenchant text perfectly relate how sod houses were built and lived in. A good lesson for youngsters in how others have lived.

A clear picture of life on the Plains

This book will hold the interest of adults and children alike. Teachers and homeschool parents especially need to include it in a unit on the West. Mr. Rounds gives us a clear idea of what life in a sod house was really like: cramped quarters, leaky roofs, and uninvited wildlife falling through the roof. The illustrations in subdued pastels are almost childlike in their simplicity and very effectively visualize the text. I highly recommend it.