From: Julie Ranelli <jranelli>
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:09:54 -0400

I really enjoyed Birdsall's The Penderwicks, which takes place during the family's summer vacation. At least one review that I read said it hearkened back to books of an earlier era. And I know that as a kid I was reading some of those same books! How I wish that as a child I had kept the kind of reading journal that I now have--I'd love to be able to remember what I read and what I thought of it at the time!

Does The Penderwicks bring to mind any other "endless summer" books for you? I think of The Five Little Peppers, The Boxcar Children, maybe Eight Cousins and some others but cannot say whether they were actually set in summer, or whether I simply associate them with summertime because that was when I had time to read endlessly myself!

Julie


Julie Ranelli Children's/Young Adult Librarian Queen Anne's County Free Library Kent Island Branch Stevensville, MD jranelli at quan.lib.md.us
Received on Thu 06 Jul 2006 03:09:54 PM CDT