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Country Living Barefoot Summers: Reflections on Home, Family, and Simple Pleasures
by Faith Andrews Bedford
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Hearst (2005-06-01)
ISBN: 1588164519
EAN: 9781588164513
Dewy Decimal #: 640.973
Hardcover: 224 pages
SKU: S070313-1919
Condition: Collectable Like New
Comments: Signed and dedicated by author. Like new book. Like new condition. Ships same day or next in a bubble mailer. Enjoy.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Faith Andrews Bedford, a favorite with Country Living's readers, captures the magic of summer, childhood, and home in a moving collection of essays.
For years, the readers of Country Living have adored Faith Andrews Bedford's evocative stories, featured in her beloved bi-monthly column, "Kids in the Country." This enchanting collection invites everyone to join Bedford as she movingly recaptures the modest triumphs of children, the importance of family traditions, and the simple pleasures of country life. In "Sister Dresses," Faith's mother finds three special Easter outfits "all exactly the same," delighting her daughters. "Time & a Bottle" tells of Faith's girlhood walks along the beach, where she hoped that the sea glass she collected "had come from a perfume bottle thrown into the water a century ago by an elegant lady in France." Every one of these essays explores the beauty in the ordinary and the meaning in the everyday.
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Customer Reviews
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Super summer read - memories
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-08-17
This is a very good and easy summer read. Each story brings back memories. Recommend it every summer or when you feel down and need a pick me up.
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Great Mother's Day Gift
Rating  (5)
Date: 2006-03-14
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Ms. Bedford is one of those women who make life a joy for all those who come into contact with her or her writing. To have had her as a mother or grandmother must feel like a gift from God.
Through her short and emotionally charged stories, I found myself carried back into my youth when my Mom would work endless magic by making things herself.
The book contains three sections of stories, ones as a child, as a mother and as a grandmother. The last section is the skimpiest because Ms. Bedford hasn't been a mother as long as she has lived the other two roles.
Her stories capture and build on common elements of healthy relationships like family rituals, special places, shared experiences, favorite tokens, and powerful lessons learned together.
Often, you'll have the urge to do something similar for your children or grandchildren. Go for it! To make that easier, Ms. Bedford has included how to do various simple projects like making a pincushion, baking barefoot cookies, filling a dress up box, decorating plates, and turning clothespins into dolls.
There may also be days when you could use a little mothering. Just read this book and feel embraced by Ms. Bedford's all-encompassing love of life, people and nature. Is it any surprise that she's an enthusiastic bee keeper?
Heart warming is an overused description for books. I felt like any review of this book would be incomplete without that reference. I don't remember a more heart-warming non-fiction book.
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So warm!
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-09-12
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Takes me back to my own childhood, reminded me of things I had not thought of in far too long. Wonderful!
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Bedtime Reading
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-07-04
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
A friend gave me this wonderful book and, now that I have read it, I have bought it for my two daughters, my mom and my aunt. The stories create such a wonderful peaceful quality that it is now my preferred bedtime reading. I read one or two stories before falling asleep and, thus, easily settle into gentle slumber. The world Faith writes about may have happened twenty or ten years ago but it still exists if we only care enought to make it happen. She has inspired me to create quiet times of appreciation of nature and family and tradition. I cannot recommend this enough.
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Teacher finds wonderful ideas in this book
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-06-28
7 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
As a long time reader of Country Living I have enjoyed Faith Andrews Bedford's stories very much. But not until I bought this book did I realize how many wonderful ideas for projects for children she incorporated into her stories. I did not begin to subscribe until 2000 but realize that her column "Kids in the Country" has been a part of that magazine for many years. And, obviously, I'd missed some great stories. Her essays are warm and witty and so very true to life. I was deeply moved many times. She taps into the world of children perfectly.
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