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Summary: An Adventure
Review: A book about a little girl and her mother spending a day together picking blueberries. Along their journey they run into others that have the same idea. When I was a young girl my mother took me berry picking at a small farm in my hometown. Reading this made me smile and remember parts of my childhood. This is a neat story that all children should have the chance to read. It is also a wonderful story to keep in a classroom.
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Summary: A "blue" classic about blueberries, bears, and Moms.
Review: A children's book about a little girl named Sal who goes up into the hills to pick blueberries with her mother and eats as many blueberries as she puts into her pail! She encounters a mother bear and her cub also picking blueberries; but, soon the little cub is trailing Sal's mother while Sal is trailing the mother bear. McCloskey's blue and white illustrations are perfect for this story and it resulted in the book being a 1949 Caldecott Honor book (i.e., a runner-up to the Medal winner) for best illustration in a book for children. It is a must for the shelves of any parent of a preschooler or the shelf of any serious student of children literature.
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Summary: A must-have for every childs library!!!!
Review: A wonderful story and touching portrayl of the connection between mothers and their children
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Summary: An oldie but a goodie!
Review: Although the illustrations appear a bit outdated and even stereotypical, this is truly a children's classic. I remember reading it as a child, and now I have seen it anew through the eyes of my neice and nephew (who loved it) and now my own daughter. When followed by a field trip of berry picking, this is a fun and educational experience which will surely create a great memory for your family
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Summary: I love this Book
Review: As a child, this was the book I sought out every week on my trips to the library with my mom. The illustrations are wonderful and I always loved the parallel between the child and the bear cub each wandering off from their moms on the blueberry picking adventure.Now I am ordering this for my first child and am so excited to have it in my home and can't wait to share it with my baby!
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Summary: Wonderful story!
Review: Being from Maine, I may be a little biased, but I think this is one of the best children's books ever written. It combines wonderful illustrations with a fine story that blends humor and drama as the blueberry pickers get mixed up. The story has been a childhood favorite for years and remains as fresh as it did at its first release in 1948.
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Summary: A True Classic Child's Book
Review: Blueberries for Sal has always been a favorite of mine, and now my three-year-old son is enjoying the book! We've read it bunches of times, and now he recognizes it at the library when we see it. We've checked out the audio tape a couple of times, and have it right now. I think I'm going to have to renew it because it's all he wants to listen to in the car! On one side is a nice reading of the story, and on the other, little songs, games and comments from the readers. Some are familiar, such as "Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, Turn Around" and "The Bear Went Over The Mountain" and some are new, such as "No Bears Out Tonight". It's a better value than many books on tape, which only have the story and not the extras like this one does.
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Summary: Timeless and classic book, perfect for family bonding
Review: Blueberries for Sal is a favorite book from childhood and is still one of my favorite books to this very day. This book is about a young girl who finds herself caught in a wild adventure while she is picking blueberries with her mother. It is a perfect book to sit down and read together as a family, and is a story both children and parents can relate to. I will never forget listening to my mother read, eating blueberries, and singing kurplink, kurplank, kurplunk.
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Summary: a wonderful book
Review: Blueberries for Sal is a great book for kids. It is so cute the way that Sal keeps eating the blueberries, and she strays away from her mom. It is also so cute how the baby bear also strays from its mom. I loved the book when I was a kid, and I still do!
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Summary: This day captures perfectly a long ago day in Maine
Review: Having grown up in the part of Maine this book is set in, and having had many days as a child Sal's age picking blueberries and eating them, I can tell you that this book captures perfectly the feeling of such a day. I can put myself into the picture and be carried back to the low scrub-filled woods behind my grandmother's house, the sun warm on my clothes, and bushes around me so filled with blueberries you could fill a pail without moving. I can hear the clink of berries in a nearly empty pail, as Sal did. I never ran into a bear, but I can almost feel like I did, from reading this book. I'm glad to say my young city dwelling son loves this book also, and it's nice to be able to share part of my past with him through it.
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