My father took the picture before he and my mother divorced. Perhaps Blueberries for Sal, published in 1948, is the picture book my sister, age four, and I, age two-and-a-half, are intently studying in my favorite childhood photograph. I only know how to place the book in the context of raising my sons so many years ago. I’m sharing this review for those with young children or grandchildren.
The audiobook download is fairly cheap on ITunes, splurge for that if you can :) It adds an extra element to the experience methinks. Would recommend for all ages :)Happy reading!
I'm thinking perhaps I had read this before or had it read to me? Possible. this story seemed somewhat familiar the whole time. A couple moments made me laugh, but the whole time it made me smile and remember the fun I had picking my own (and time I got stung on the lip because I didn't know a bee had flown in the bush).įunny thing. The narrator does a great job with the different voices of everyone in the story. To this day, they are still my favorite fruit :)Ī short book but a wonderful and cute story. Sometimes we would pick blueberries with them and sometimes we get a bowlful after Helen had given her family their share. Our neighbors Helen and Mike (second grandparents really) had five blueberry bushes while we were growing up. The reason I picked this one? Partly for my niece and partly because of: Twelve years later on June 30, 2003, McCloskey died at his home in Deer Isle, Maine. Three others of his picture books are set on the coast and concern the sea. McCloskey's wife and eldest daughter Sally are reputed to be the models for little Sal and her mother in Blueberries for Sal (1948), a picture book set on a "Blueberry Hill" in the vicinity. They had two daughters, Sally and Jane, and settled in New York State, spending summers on Scott Island, a small island off Little Deer Isle in East Penobscot Bay. In 1940, he married Peggy Durand, daughter of the children's writer Ruth Sawyer. After Vesper George he moved to New York City for study at the National Academy of Design. McCloskey was born in Hamilton, Ohio, during 1914 and reached Boston in 1932 with a scholarship to study at Vesper George Art School. He was also the writer for Make Way For Ducklings, as well as the illustrator for The Man Who Lost His Head. Four of those eight books were set in Maine: Blueberries for Sal, One Morning in Maine, Time of Wonder, and Burt Dow, Deep-water Man the last three all on the coast. He both wrote and illustrated eight picture books and won two Caldecott Medals from the American Library Association recognizing the year's best-illustrated picture book. John Robert McCloskey was an American writer and illustrator of children's books.
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