Reputedly based on Robert McCloskey's own midwestern childhood, his first book (published in 1940) is as close as children's literature gets to a Frank Capra movie, complete with picturesque small-town America, a grumpy millionaire, and a do-gooder innocent (think of Lentil as Jimmy Stewart's younger self from "It's a Wonderful Life"). Lentil loves music, but cannot sing, so he teaches himself to play the harmonica, and this new skill comes ...
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Little Sal of Robert McCloskey's Blueberries for Sal returns to us in this story, but oh, what happened? She's not so little anymore. We meet her again on the day she loses her first tooth. In case the sight of Sal as a "big girl" sends you into a fit of anticipatory mourning for your own little one's toddlerhood, she's got a little sister now named Jane who is just ...
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Robert McCloskey's first book in color is the third and last of the series chronicling his family's Maine summers. His daughters Sal and Jane are "big kids" now, exploring the woods together, jumping off ledges into the sea, and handling a small sailboat all by themselves (Sal at the tiller, Jane as first mate). But in a departure from the tidy-storytelling of McCloskey's other books, here we are taken on ...
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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 ...
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This may be one of Robert McCloskey's lesser-known titles, but it's an absolute gem of which we (and our Savvy kids) are enormously fond. The hero is a retired fisherman turned housepainter whose zest for the sea remains undiminished by the leaky condition of his multicolored boat. Burt goes out deep-sea fishing one day, and in the ensuing adventure, McCloskey lets loose his sense of humor and the absurdist ...
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This award-winning and ever popular classic really needs no introduction from us: it's the official children's book of Massachusetts -- need we say more? But truly, there is good reason why Mr. and Mrs. Mallard's adventures have remained so beloved for all this time. These ducks are just too funny and adorable, the pictures of their proud strutting through Boston streets and traffic absolutely comical. If you ever happen to ...
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