Monday Is Wash Day [Hardcover]

In this timeless story from a time not so?long ago, Annie and her sister help Mama with washing the clothes on Monday?morning. From gathering and sorting the clothes, to washing and hanging them?outside to dry, to folding and putting them away, the family works together to get the job done. ?

First we work and then we play. Mama smiles but walks with purpose to the porch.

Tessa Blackhams warm, hand-painted?cut-paper collages bring the reader to?a time in the Midwest when doing the?laundry was an all-day family chore.

In this timeless story from a time not so?long ago, Annie and her sister help Mama with washing the clothes on Monday?morning. From gathering and sorting the clothes, to washing and hanging them?outside to dry, to folding and putting them away, the family works together to get the job done. ?

First we work and then we play. Mama smiles but walks with purpose to the porch.

Tessa Blackhams warm, hand-painted?cut-paper collages bring the reader to?a time in the Midwest when doing the?laundry was an all-day family chore.

FromKirkus Reviews, July 2, 2016:

STARRED REVIEW

Two sisters help with the weeks laundry in an era when doing the wash required much more than the quick turn of a knob.

First we work and then we play, says their mother. With a sigh, the girls cheerfully begin. Young readers might initially blanch. The dark-haired, light-skinned girls sort heaps of dirty clothes, haul buckets of water to the back porch (hot for the washer, cold for the rinse tubs), dump in soap, feed dripping garments through a wringer, rub their numb hands, and then hang the entire load on a line to dry with pins. Quickly, a fascination, appreciation, and perhaps even envy for this laborious weekly task will bloom inside modern childrens Oxy-cleanlĂ#