The first book in the series was adapted into a 1991 television movie starring Glenn Close and Christopher Walken. She wrote four sequels to the novel, including Skylark and Calebs Story.
A critic for Kirkus called the book a warming, delicately tuned story. The novel, about a widowed farmer in search of a wife to help him raise his two kids, won the Newbery as well as the Golden Kite Award and the Scott O∭ell Award for Historical Fiction. More than 60 books would follow, including Sarah, Plain and Tall in 1985.
MacLachlan began writing in her 30s, publishing her first book, The Sick Day, in 1979.
Patricia MacLachlan, the prolific author whose novel Sarah, Plain and Tall won the Newbery Medal and remains a staple of childrens literature, has died at 84, the Washington Post reports.
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