Dorcas Smucker: 4 books

Imagine raising six spirited kids on a grass farm—today. Newspaper columnist Dorcas Smucker and her brood live out their days in full view in this collection of musings—picking blueberries while watching for bears, hoping for angels while driving off the freeway, moving into the “thousand-story...

Downstairs the Queen Is Knitting is Dorcas Smucker's brand new chronicle of family life with six fast-growing up kids. Downstairs the Queen Is Knitting follows Dorcas' two earlier and beloved collections, "Upstairs the Peasants Are Revolting" and "Ordinary Days." The kids are a bit older now, and...

An uplifting—and uproarious—account of raising six kids in rural Oregon. Join Dorcas Smucker and her brood as they pick blueberries, watch for bears, and hope for angels driving off the nearby freeway, in these true tales of a Mennonite minister’s family in an old Oregon farmhouse. Covering...

Entertaining tales of life in rural Oregon from a Mennonite minister’s wife and mother of six. With some books, you can't tell if the tears you suddenly find on your cheeks are from laughing or from crying. Dorcas Smucker writes so vividly about life with her six kids that you'll be convinced...