Wagons Ho!

Two girls move from Missouri to Oregonone in 1846 and one in 2011.

One trip takes five months and the other five days. One trip is in a covered wagon, the other in a car. But both girls will miss their old homes and worry about the long trip.

Both girls stop at well-known landmarks and travel the Rocky Mountains. And as each girl reaches her new home, she finds her new room, and her new friends.Wagons Ho!is a unique look at both history and the concerns all kids have when moving to a new home.';While debut author Hallowell and the prolific Holub effectively intertwine history lessons with personal revelations, Avril handles the dual narratives and contrasting time frames with aplomb, often employing parallel or side-by-side panels so readers can compare the two girls' great adventures.'Publishers Weekly';Together, the art and text make a good introduction to the Westward Movement.

The format is best suited for individual or small-group reading.

Fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's ';Little House' series (HarperCollins) will appreciate this fictional/factual picture book.' School Library Journal';Vibrantly enlivening pioneer migration for primary readers, this is a fine addition for both home and classroom.' Kirkus Reviews';Cartoon panels help organize the many lively illustrations into two parallel stories, while the first-person narratives convey the girls' hopes, fears, joys, and laments, along with bits of information and humor.'Booklist';Parallel layouts of the breezy cartoon-styled jaunt make comparisons easy, and the overlap of the stories at Independence Rock, where the Johnsons inscribe their names and Millers read them, invites the past into the present for a young audience.' Recommend, the Bulletin';Teachers could use this book as a model for writing/social studies assignments.

Young readers will enjoy this book and should gain some insight into the difficulties of pioneer life.'Library Media ConnectionGeorge Hallowell is an architect, award-winning photographer, author of numerous articles, and a PhD student who has an interest in buried treasure, old mining towns, and historic villages.

He has visited every state in the USA except Alaska, and has hiked on the Oregon Trail.

This is his first book.Joan Holub is the author and/or illustrator of over one hundred thirty books for children, includingApple CountdownandWagons Ho!She is also the author of the acclaimed Goddess Girls series (coauthored with Suzanne Williams), which includes twelve titles such asAthena the Brain,Medusa the Mean,andAphrodite the Diva.After years of freelancing as a graphic artist, Lynne Avril fell into illustrating children's books . . . and has done over sixty-five, includingThe No-Good Do-Good PiratesandIf I Ran for President.

Her books have been selected for awards by the Junior Library Guild, the Society of School Librarians International, the Children's Book Council, and the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio.

She lives in Arizona.