More Stories from the Round Barn

by Jacqueline Jackson

In this much anticipated companion volume to Stories from the Round Barn, Jackson assembles a collection of rich narratives and a cast of inspirational characters to joyously illustrate life. In the tradition of Willa Cather, Jackson writes of innocence, simplicity, and what happens when both are messily shattered by the intrusion of animals, children, war, epidemics, and progress itself. With wit and compassion Jackson recollects the hardships and satisfactions of farm life as lived according to her grandfather's "Life as Well as a Living."

289 pages, Hardcover

First published July 17, 2002

About the author

Jacqueline Jackson is a retired Professor of English from the University of Illinois at Springfield. She also taught children's literature at Kent State University. She has four daughters: Damaris (deceased), Gillian, Elspeth, and Megan.

Ms. Jackson's for young readers are Julie's Secret Sloth, The Paleface Redskins, Chicken Ten Thousand, The Ghost Boat, and The Taste of Spruce Gum, a Notable Children's Book of 1966. In addition, Jacqueline has received the Dorothy Canfield Fisher children's book award. She considers her books Stories from the Round Barn and More Stories from the Round Barn to be her best work.

Reviews

[Bruce Whitmore · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice easy reading short stories of a Southern WI dairy farm that also processed and sold milk door to door in the nearby city.
My father worked there in a herd management position in the 1940s.

[Lillian · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful memoir of life on a dairy farm in the 1930s-40s and a history of the farm and its owners going back to the early 1900s. There are so many interesting, cute, funny stories of life on the farm and in the neighborhood told in a conversational, easy-reading manner. Loved the book.