As a reader, I found the language of this book to be hard to follow. The characters talked in broken English, which was what made it harder to follow. However, I did enjoy the plot of the story. The children all had to go out to pull their weight in the family so that they might enjoy a meal. They try to help their mother out, only to find they have collected mostly rocks instead of potatoes. Although the language was hard to follow I enjoyed the book overall.
As a teacher, I might use this book as an accompaniment to a social studies lesson. This book shows a family that is struggling financially when the children decide to go harvest potatoes. The farmer could have turned them away, but he says that if they pick up stones they can keep the potatoes they find. This could be linked to a lesson on the Great Depression to relate it to the struggles that families went through at that time.
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