The Picture Man
Julia Taylor Ebel —— $16.95
Reading/interest level ages 4-8, 32 pages, 2009
In the first half of the 20th century, itinerant photographers known as picture men traveled the backroads of Appalachia making their living taking photographs of the local farmers and their families. These picture men come to life in this story of an Appalachian farm girl who is intrigued by an offer to photograph her family. Gentle brown-toned watercolors hint of old photographs, wahile poetic text leads readers from the picture man’s arrival to the taking of the photograph. The story culminates with the actual 1940s photograph that inspired this story.

Curriculum Applications: 3rd-8th Grade Social Studies, Science.

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