Great Days of a Country House
Kindergarten-Grade 4-- Using his trademark detailed watercolors, Goodall creates a 500-year pictorial history of an English estate. Large format, double-page spreads provide a slice-of-life look at changes surrounding this house in dress, decor, work, and social activities. One to several double-page spreads are devoted to each era, from the Tudor period to the present day. Framed along the bottom of each page are, on the left side, the name and dates of a time period and, on the right, a short phrase describing the scene above. Goodall draws readers into the book with numerous tidbits of information about the lifestyles. Although the overall concept is tried and true as seen in other books such as his The Story of a Castle (McElderry, 1986), this offering remains fresh and engaging. --Martha Topol, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, MICopyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.