Mary Emma and Company

'Moody has recorded with fidelity and skill a time and a place and a way of life that is, in itself, the essence of the American dream. Reading his book is like returning to Grandmother's kitchen with the heavenly smell of sugar cookies escaping from the oven' - "Chicago Sunday Tribune". 'In Ralph Moody's ...book of young memories grinding poverty is overshadowed by the diligence that overcame it. Bitter cold is forgot-ten in heartwarming affection and humor. Unpretentious courage tights every page' - "Christian Science Monitor". 'It is a story of family industry and ingenuity...A well-told story, full of interesting detail about life in the first part of the twentieth century, and children, particularly, will find it pleasant reading' - "New York Herald Tribune Books". The protagonist, Mary Emma Moody, widowed mother of six, has taken her family east in 1912 to begin a new life. Her son, Ralph, then thirteen, recalls how the Moodys survive that first bleak winter in a Massachusetts town. Money and prospects are lacking, but not so faith and resourcefulness. 'Mother' in "Little Britches" and "Man of the Family", Mary Emma emerges fully as a character in this book, and Ralph, no longer called "Little Britches," comes into his own. The family's run-ins with authority and with broken furnaces in winter are evocative of a full and warm family life. "Mary Emma & Company" continues the Moody saga that started in Colorado with "Little Britches" and runs through "Man of the Family" and "The Home Ranch". All these titles have been reprinted as Bison Books, as has "The Fields or Home", in which Ralph leaves the Massachusetts town for his grandfather's farm in Maine.

ISBN 0803282117   Pages 235 ISBN13 9780803282117 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher University of Nebraska Press   Weight (grammes) 254 Imprint University of Nebraska Press   Published in Lincoln Format Paperback   Series title Bison Book S. Publication date 01 Jun 1994   Height (mm) 210 Illustrator Tran Mawicke   Width (mm) 135 Library of Congress PS3563.O55   Spine width (mm) 14 DEWEY 307.0973   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC20

"Moody has recorded with fidelity and skill a time and a place and a way of life that is, in itself, the essence of the American dream. Reading his book is like returning to Grandmother''s kitchen with the heavenly smell of sugar cookies escaping from the oven."--"Chicago Sunday Tribune"

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