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In this delightful story about an eight-year-old Amish girl, readers can see what its like to experience the joys of Amish farm life: receiving packages in the mail, finding baby kittens, attending market, and riding in the buggy on the way to town.
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Amish--Fiction, Family life--Virginia--Fiction, Virginia--Fiction.
publication date
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1967
lcc
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PZ7.B388235Mat 2000eb
ddc
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813.54
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Amish--Fiction, Family life--Virginia--Fiction, Virginia--Fiction.
Page 1
MATTIE MAE
The author says, "Mattie Mae really came to me from many sources. She is a combination of ideas picked up from stories that my mother used to tell about her childhood, plus memories from my own childhood, plus events that are purely imaginary.
"However, I did try to recapture a time and a place that are really gone forever. For this, I gathered authentic details. The tide of urbanization has all but obliterated the "country" where these stories are supposed to have taken place; so I attempted to recapture that time and that place in stories where they cannot be easily erased.
"In these stories, I have tried to stay away from easy and superficial moralizing. Instead, they have their basis in enduring values such as respect for others, understanding for those who are different, etc.
"Above all, they are meant to be enjoyed. In a sense, they are dedicated to all the boys and girls who spend their spare minutes curled up in odd positions on chairs or on the floor, with their noses perpetually in a book!"
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Mattie Mae
By Edna Beiler
Illustrated by Esther Rose Graber
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Beiler, Edna. Mattie Mae. Illustrated by Esther Rose Graber. Scottdale, Pa., Herald Press 1967 109 p. illus. 22 cm. Summary: The problems and pleasures of an eight-year-old Amish girl who lives with her family in Virginia. ISBN 67-8361-1789-1 1. AmishFiction. 2. Family lifeFiction I. Graber, Esther Rose, illus. II. Title. PZ7.B388235 Mat [Fic] 67-24800 MARC AC
The paper used in this publication is recycled and meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
MATTIE MAE Copyright 1967 by Herald Press, Scottdale, Pa. 15683 Published simultaneously in Canada by Herald Press, Waterloo, Ont. N2L 6H7. All rights reserved Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 67-24800 International Standard Book Number: 67-8361-1789-1 Printed in the United States of America
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20,150 copies in print
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To Uncle Noah
Page 9
Foreword
MOSTLY FOR GROWN-UPS
When I was a little girl, I lived in a place in southern Virginia much like the one described in these stories. Several years ago, I stopped there for a brief visit.
The farm where I had lived is now a housing project. The farmhouse just across the road from it is (of all things!) the headquarters for a country club. Where the catalpa grove once sprawled its tangled growth of honeysuckle vines are neat green lawns, clipped close.
In fact, that whole area is an enormous suburb, from the city of Norfolk to the sea. I suppose even Dismal Swamp (that ultimate mystery of my childhood) is being drained and farmed in neat and tidy fields. It is all very sad.
I am glad that a little of that past can be preserved
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in these stories. However, this book is not history in any other sense of the word. I have tried to remain true to that countryside, as I remember it. But the incidents in the stories are not necessarily true happenings. The cousins I played with as a child are not the cousins that Mattie Mae knows, nor are the uncles, aunts, assorted relatives and neighbors in these stories identified with real people.
With one exception. The Uncle Tobe of these stories was a real uncle who gladdened my childhood by his visits and saddened us all by his death. He is the Uncle Noah to whom this book is dedicated.
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