SOURCE: A review of Working Cotton, in School Library Journal, Vol. 38, No. 11, November, 1992, p. 81.

In the following review, Miller-Lachmann offers praise for Working Cotton.

[The protagonist of Sherley Anne Williams's Working Cotton,] Shelan is the third of four daughters in a family of African-American migrant workers. With a spare grace, she narrates one day in their lives as they work in the fields picking cotton. Although she is too young to do much, the girl helps pile cotton for her mother, who carries baby Leanne as she works. Sometimes, she befriends other children, "But you hardly ever see the same kids twice, 'specially after we moves to a new field." As the day wears on, the heat builds and boredom and fatigue grow. Sweat pours off the children's faces, and Shelan observes, "It's a long time to night." Finally, the sun sets, the bus comes, and the tired...