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“Sarah, Plain and Tall,” being staged at Sutter Street Theatre in Folsom from May 7 through May 29, takes that classified-ad strategy.

From Patricia MacLachlan’s Newbery Award-winning Book, Sarah, Plain and Tall is set in the early 1900’s and brings to life the charming, heartwarming story of a Kansas farmer, Jacob Witting, a widower with two children, Anna and Caleb, who places an ad in the newspapers seeking a wife. He receives a letter from a Sarah Wheaton of Maine who says she will visit the family for a month to see how things work out: 'I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall.'

After setting out on her longtime fantasy to travel the world on a sailboat with her family, one writer learns just how beautiful—and devastating—it can be to finally get what you want

Patricia MacLachlan, a celebrated author of children’s books, including the bestselling “Sarah, Plain and Tall,” about a young woman wh

A best-selling children’s book writer, she focused on family life and its difficulties, earning acclaim for her gentle, sparse prose.