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Blue Willow is a realistic children's fiction book by Doris Gates, published in 1940.Called the "juvenile Grapes of Wrath", [1] it was named a Newbery Honor book in 1941. . Written by a librarian who worked with migrant children in Fresno, California, this story of a migrant girl who longs for a permanent home was considered groundbreaking in its portrayal of contemporary working-class life in A
Doris Gates (November 26, 1901 – September 3, 1987) was one of America's first writers of realistic children's fiction.Her novel Blue Willow, about the experiences of Janey Larkin, the ten-year-old daughter of a migrant farm worker in 1930s California, is a Newbery Honor book and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award winner.
Taylor Brothers, of Sheffield, England, manufacturers of saws and blades in the 19th and 20th centuries, made a line of Willow Saws, with a medallion using part of the Willow pattern. [12] The blue Willow Pattern over the years has been used to advertise all kinds of goods and services. This forms the subject of a two-volume publication. [13]
Salix irrorata, the dewystem willow, blue-stem willow, or sandbar willow, is a species of willow native to the US states of Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico, and to northern Mexico. [3] In spite of its bluestem willow common name, its stems are red, but a white coat develops that makes them appear bluish.
Willow SRC can be established according to two different layouts. In most North European countries (Sweden, UK, Denmark) and in the US, the most frequent planting scheme is the double row design with 0.75 m distance between the double rows and 1.5 m to the next double row, and a distance between plants ranging from 1 m to 0.4 m, corresponding ...
Indonesian Wikipedia main page with dark mode and Timeless. Although the Indonesian language is similar to the Malay language, the Indonesian Wikipedia remains separate from the Malay Wikipedia [4] (initiated in October 2002). [5] The Indonesian and Malay Wikipedias were started separately by two different user groups within six months of each ...
The blue willow beetle (Phratora vulgatissima), formerly Phyllodecta vulgatissima, is a herbivourous beetle of the family Chrysomelidae. It is dark with a metallic sheen that ranges from a blue color to bronze. It is distinguished from P. vitellinae by the latter more commonly displaying bronze coloration.
Salix myrtillifolia is a species of flowering plant in the willow family known by the common name blueberry willow. It is native to northern North America, where it occurs in Alaska and much of Canada. [2] This willow is a shrub with two growth varieties. Low blueberry willow (S. m. var. myrtillifolia) is a small shrub under 60 cm (24 in) tall ...