读过《Sarah, Plain and Tall》 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
篇幅非常短小的一部纽伯瑞作品，人物塑造比田园牧歌的描写部分更成功，俩姐弟的互动活灵活现，是本作的优点，但我过不了邮寄新娘这个设定，总觉得每位将自己“寄”出去的女子面对未来感受到更多的是无助和飘零，而不是幸福和美满。搜索时无法相信中文版竟然译成“又丑又高的萨拉“！
Book
Sarah, Plain and Tall Douban
author:
Patricia MacLachlan
publishing house:
HarperTrophy
1987
- 9
<p align="center">"Did Mama sing every day?"<br /> Caleb asks his sister Anna.<br /> "Every-single-day," she answers.<br /> "Papa sang, too."</p>
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?</p>
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?</p>