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Oh Lord, I Wish I Was a Buzzard
By Aliki (illustrator) and Polly Greenberg
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Chronicle Books Llc
Publication date January 1, 2002
Binding School and Library
Book category Juvenile Fiction
ISBN-13 9781587171222
ISBN-10 1587171228
Dimensions 0.50 by 8.50 by 10.50 in.
Weight 0.75 lbs.
Availability§ Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price $15.95
Other format details juvenile
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
As a little girl picks cotton, she dreams of changing places with a buzzard, a dog, and other creatures of the field, in a timeless story first published in 1968.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: "We picked and we picked and we picked and we picked..." From dawn to dusk, a little girl harvests cotton with her family during the sweltering crop season. Imagining her way through the endless day, she wishes she could be anyone else-from a snake curved up and cool to a buzzard going round and round in the sky. Then at last, sunset approaches and a special treat awaits.

Polly Greenberg's rhythmic, easy-to-read text and Aliki's striking sun-soaked illustrations together make an unforgettable tale-part story, part song, and all poetry. Though based on a sharecropper's childhood memory from generations ago, this timeless story reflects everyone's wish to escape...and to be as free as a bird. First published in 1968, it is a powerful today as the day it was first told.

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Paperback
Book cover for 9781587172205
 
With Aliki (other contributor) | Reprint edition from Seastar Books (February 1, 2003)
9781587172205 | details & prices | 32 pages | 7.75 × 10.00 × 0.25 in. | Rec. grade levels 1-2 | 0.13 lbs | List price $5.95
About: As a little girl picks cotton, she dreams of changing places with a buzzard, a dog, and other creatures of the field.
School and Library
Book cover for 9780027367300 Book cover for 9781587171222 Book cover for 9781587171239
 
With Aliki (other contributor) | from Seastar Books (February 1, 2002)
9781587171239 | details & prices | 8.50 × 10.50 × 0.25 in. | Rec. grade levels 1-2 | 0.75 lbs | List price $16.50
About: As a little girl picks cotton, she dreams of changing places with a buzzard, a dog, and other creatures of the field.
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With Aliki (other contributor) | from Chronicle Books Llc (January 1, 2002)
9781587171222 | details & prices | 8.50 × 10.50 × 0.50 in. | Rec. grade levels 1-2 | 0.75 lbs | List price $15.95
About: As a little girl picks cotton, she dreams of changing places with a buzzard, a dog, and other creatures of the field.
from Atheneum (October 1, 1968)
9780027367300 | details & prices | Rec. grade levels 1-2 | List price $10.95
About: A little girl working in the cotton field with her brother and father, dreams of changing places with the birds and animals she sees around her

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