Blueberries for Sal

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Blueberries for Sal

by Robert McCloskey

For ages 2+ years

Sal is a bit scruffy. Her hair hasn't seen a brush for a few days. Her overall straps keep slipping down. But has a more endearing girl ever toddled across a blueberry field in the pages of a children's book? We think not. Under her father's clearly adoring yet unsparing gaze (McCloskey based this and his other Maine books on his own family), Sal tags along with her mother on a picking expedition, but is too busy gobbling berries to keep up. When she and a blueberry-munching bear cub get their mothers mixed up, a gentle comedy of errors ensues. With its gorgeous blue-black illustrations of the Maine hills and wildlife, this book remains an enchanting tale of summer and its pleasures.

$7.99

Review provided by The Savvy Source.

Comments

Graham Charles said:

This a great story of grownups being lost and getting found without their kids really thinking much about it. A lovingly drawn story told in parallel, a tomboy named Sal and a bear cub collect blueberries with their mothers to put up for the winter, then soon get distracted by the delights of a New England hillside. The book is almost a pastorale -- a soothing meditation on family and nature. The final panel by itself, in which Sal and mother have returned home and wordlessly undertake the canning process, is an emotionally pure portrait of involved parenting and how much stay-at-home parents provide for their families.
Posted on Nov 23, 2008

Mimi Jenkins said:

This was one of my all-time favorite books when I was growing up. We found it at our local library one day and the boys also loved it. There is a picture in the book of Sal and her mom canning blueberries and I remember wanting to do that with my mom one day. There is something about scruffy Sal that makes her relateable and endears her in my heart. Sal goes blueberry picking with her mom one day. Instead of "picking" blueberries, Sal is eating them. She and a bear cub cross paths and begin following the wrong mothers. Thankfully it all works out in the end. The story is cute, the pictures are amazing!
Posted on Nov 19, 2008

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