To Janey Larkin, the blue willow plate was the most beautiful thing in her life, a symbol of the home she could only dimly remember. Now that her father was an itinerant worker, Janey didn't have a home she could call her own or any real friends, as her family had to keep moving, following the crops from farm to farm. Someday, Janey promised the willow plate, with its picture of a real house, her family would once again be able to set down roots in a community.
Blue Willow is an important fictional account of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, and has been called The Grapes of Wrath for children. It won a Newbery Honor and many other awards.
- ISBN10 0140309241
- ISBN13 9780140309249
- Publish Date 30 September 1976
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 26 October 2004
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
- Imprint Puffin
- Format Paperback (US Digest)
- Pages 176
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780140309249