planning for winter isn’t foremost on this little girl’s mind!)Īlso on Blueberry Hill are Little Bear and his mother, eating as many blueberries as they can, also preparing for winter. (Well, Sal picks the blueberries and eats them now. What heaven to be on Blueberry Hill, where Sal and her mother find themselves picking berries to can for the winter. Who doesn’t love a Maine summer, and who doesn’t revel in the lush taste of ripe blueberries? As the School Library Journal said, the book is full of “all the color and flavor of the sea and pine-covered Maine countryside.” White’s Charlotte’s Web and Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs. McCloskey is also the author of Make Way for Ducklings, One Morning in Maine, and six other children’s books.īased on McCloskey’s wife, Margaret, and daughter, Sarah, Blueberries for Sal joins two of my other favorite Maine novels – E. Robert McCloskey’s 1948 classic, Blueberries for Sal, was awarded the Caldecott Honor in 1949.
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