Sarah, Plain and Tall

一首動人的草原詩歌 ~ 又醜又高的莎拉
一本帶給人心深處滿溢感覺的少年小說

★榮獲1986年美國紐伯瑞金牌獎

　　住在緬因州的莎拉，看到了報紙上的徵婚啟事，來到了草原試住一個月，大家都很喜歡莎拉，兩個自小生長在草原、失去媽媽的孩子，努力想為爸爸留下新太太及他們的新媽媽……小說內容溫馨，描寫草原上的一家人努力想留住莎拉的心情，充滿喜劇味，是本值得珍藏與閱讀的少年小說。

★本書中譯本由三之三出版。

”Did Mama sing every day?”
Caleb asks his sister Anna.
”Every-single-day,” she answers.
”Papa sang, too.”

　　Their mother died the day after Caleb was born. Their house on the prairie is quiet now, and Papa doesn’t sing anymore. Then Papa puts an ad in the paper, asking for a wife, and he receives a letter from one Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton, of Maine. Papa, Anna, and Caleb write back. Caleb asks if she sings. Sarah decides to come for a month. She writes Papa: I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall, and Tell them I sing. Anna and Caleb wait and wonder. Will Sarah be nice? Will she like them? Will she stay？