Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Further Reading

If you're interested in other books on the Depression or Dust Bowl you might want to read a few of these:
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans
Little Heathens: Hard Times & High Spirits on an Iowa Farms During the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Harpsong by Rilla Askew
A Student of Weather by Elizabeth Hay

A complete booklist is available at the Redmond Library.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Another fantastic and absolutely amazing book about the dust bowl era is "Years of Dust," by Albert Marrin. This book won the 2008 National Endowment for the Humanities Medal, and it's written for kids and adults. The photographs are spectacular!

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