By Robert McCloskey, 1948, 64 pages
“Little Sal picked three berries and dropped them in her little tin pail…kuplink, kuplank, kuplunk!”
This is another favorite classic children’s books of ours that’s been around for 60(!) years. It’s the story of a mother and her Little Sal (a girl), and a mother bear and her Little Bear wandering over a late summer hillside in Maine, covered with blueberries. The mother and Sal are picking berries to can for winter, and the mother bear and Little Bear are eating as many berries as they can before winter arrives. A mother/daughter mix-up follows, with just the right amount of drama for little kids. This one makes my list of perfectly written children’s stories!
Robert McCloskey was a well-known author and illustrator of many other titles you would probably recognize including: “Make Way For Ducklings”, and the Homer Price stories.
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