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Clara and the Bookwagon (I Can Read, Level 3)
Clara and the Bookwagon - I Can Read, Level 3 Author:Nancy Smiler Levinson, Carolyn Croll (Illustrator) Papa will not allow Clara to learn to read—he says that ‘Farm people like us do not have time to read." But when the traveling bookwagon, with persuasive Miss Mary at the reins, arrives at their farm, Papa realizes he must change his mind. Based on the true story of America’s first ‘bookmobile.’
Clara's dream of enriching her family's rough life on the family farm is fulfilled when a horse-drawn book wagon visits with the country's first traveling library. (set in Pioneer times)