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Gr 3–5—Bober's picture-book biography is narrated by Frost's oldest daughter, Lesley, and based upon her childhood journal. It begins with the family's return home from two years in England, where they had lived so Frost could concentrate on writing poetry instead of farming. "Papa had the courage to trust his own feelings and know what he had to do. He made a reckless choice," says the teen, quoting the first verse of "The Road Not Taken." As she waits with her mother and siblings in New York's Grand Central Terminal fo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

The author of A Restless Spirit (rev. 8/81; revised ed., rev. 3/92) draws on that fuller biography for a picture book focused on the pivotal years (1900 - 12) when Frost lived in Derry, New Hampshire, where four of his children were born. As Bober notes, she has adapted much of this narrative from a journal Frost's oldest daughter Lesley kept from the ages of six to ten. Lesley's memories are of a happy childhood amid an idyllic sort of far...Log In or Sign Up to Read More