Puffin continues to update the Puffin Storytapes? audio program, and this season we?re adding another award-winning title to our list of Puffin Storytime ? packages: Caldecott Honor book Blueberries for Sal. The Puffin picture book will be accompanied by a compact disc that features a lively, professional reading of the story. Perfect for road trips or bedtime reading, story time, preschool, or home school, Puffin Storytime? will please children and parents alike.
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103 of 108 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Little Sal and her mother go to Blueberry hill to pick berries, and they plan to can them as preserves for the winter. Little Sal soons starts eating all the berries she picks, plus some from her mother's pail. Encouraged to go off to find berries to pick by herself, mother and Sal become separated. On the other side of the mountain, Little Bear and his mother are coming to eat all the blueberries they can to get as fat as possible so they can survive the winter. They, too, get separated.
Soon, Little Sal stumbles onto following mother bear and Little Bear is following Sal's mother. Eventually, the mothers discover the mistake, back away in shyness from the other's child, and look for their own offspring. Along the way, the children run into bird mothers and their families as well. Everyone goes home with the correct mother, and the last drawing has Little Sal with her mother in an old-fashioned kitchen with a wood stove working on the preserves.
The story is gently and beautifully told, and wonderfully complemented by the illustrations (also drawn by Mr. McClosky).
It is a good introduction for children to the way that all human and animal families work, the need to prepare for the future, and that one has to pay attention to where one is going. It will also interest them in blueberry picking, which is a wonderful family occupation. It is also very heart-warming the way Mr. McClosky has taken the potential fright out of a situation where a child has wandered off and run into a mother bear. The child can draw her or his own lesson that they would not want that to happen to them, rather than having the story provide terror.
Mr. McClosky has expressed a benign but significant role to nature that will serve families well.
... Read more ›36 of 36 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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.
32 of 33 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Famed author Robert McCloskey ("Make Way for Ducklings," "One Morning in Maine," and others) wrote and illustrated this gently humorous parallel tale of two moms and their daughters on a blueberry hunt. One pair is human, and the other pair is bear!. As they proceed up opposite sides of rolling hill covered in blueberries, each member of the species copies the other: The moms focus on the task at hand, remembering the harsh winter ahead; the children ("Little Sal" and "Little Bear") focus on the immediate pleasures of eating blueberries--so much so, that each gets lost.
In a deftly portrayed switch, McCloskey shows the Little Bear following Little Sal's mom, and Little Sal following the Little Bear's mom. The two lost children are unafraid of following the mismatched grown-ups (ok, so McCloskey takes some liberties in this very light book). Eventually the two moms turn around and see who is following: Little Bear's mother discovers Sal and turns away: ("She was old enough to be shy of people, even a very small person like Little Sal.") Meanwhile, Little Sal's mom discovers Little Bear, and the mother back away: ("She was old enough to be shy of bears, even very small bears like Little Bear.") Each pair reunites and returns home, with an adventure and berries to savor over the winter.
McCloskey's deep blue-black drawings complement the appealing symmetry and innocence of the book, and the period furnishings, uncluttered landscape, and fashions add to the book's sentimental and enduring attraction. This is a very good bedtime story for little ones who can appreciate an affectionate and tender book.
In a deftly portrayed switch, McCloskey shows the Little Bear following Little Sal's mom, and Little Sal following the Little Bear's mom. The two lost children are unafraid of following the mismatched grown-ups (ok, so McCloskey takes some liberties in this very light book). Eventually the two moms turn around and see who is following: Little Bear's mother discovers Sal and turns away: ("She was old enough to be shy of people, even a very small person like Little Sal.") Meanwhile, Little Sal's mom discovers Little Bear, and the mother back away: ("She was old enough to be shy of bears, even very small bears like Little Bear.") Each pair reunites and returns home, with an adventure and berries to savor over the winter.
McCloskey's deep blue-black drawings complement the appealing symmetry and innocence of the book, and the period furnishings, uncluttered landscape, and fashions add to the book's sentimental and enduring attraction. This is a very good bedtime story for little ones who can appreciate an affectionate and tender book.
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
By Cady Minelli
Format:Paperback
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.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
OK, I have to admit that my review is probably completely unnecessary in view of the fact that there are already 55 positive ones but... I have vowed to make notes on all of the library books we check out each week so that, should I have a book faintly perched on the edge of my mind, I will be able to scan back through my reviews until I find the one I am remembering. That said, this book has been the naptime request of my 4 year old for several days and she "read" it to a pillow on the sofa just yesterday. She especially loves the phrase "Where, oh where, is my child?" She got that one dead-on. This is an excellent book for retelling and could be acted out very successfully in a short dramatic play in kindergarten. The plot is simple and fun and leads to great discussions about how humans prepare for winter (gathering the harvest, preserving foods by canning them) vs. animals who hibernate (that would be the bear). This book is, of course, need I say it???? A winner. You won't be disappointed if you purchase this one. And little Sal (Sally? It's a girl) is as cute as a button. With such wonderful 1940's illustrations, and a warm message, this book is a cozy reminder of days gone by.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Love!
I love reading this classic to my grandsons, especially to the youngest who LOVES blueberries! The text is gentle and the art beautiful--reminding me of the art in books I read as... Read more
Published 16 days ago by Kimberly Alexander
5.0 out of 5 stars
Caldecott Award Book from 1948 - still classic
This is a book I purchased for a baby shower to contribute to a library for the soon to be new addition to the family. Read more
Published 1 month ago by mommabearx3
5.0 out of 5 stars
Classic book
This is a classic. We live in Maine (where the story takes place) & give it as gifts to non-Maine-based friends with new babies or young children!
Published 1 month ago by Sarah & Brian
5.0 out of 5 stars
A childhood classic
This is a good read-aloud to use with young children. The pictures are appealing. A cute story of llife in the country.
Published 1 month ago by J. Bailey
5.0 out of 5 stars
My most favorite childhood book!
This book is my mom's favorite book from her childhood so she read it to us often as children. It has now become my favorite childhood book because of the memories it brings back... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Rachael
5.0 out of 5 stars
A beautifully simple story
This is such a simple story about a child and a mom out picking blueberries. I find the pictures and storyline to be soothing which is rare in children's books sometimes. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Randee Baty
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book
I love these classic books and I remember it from being a kid myself. Such a simple story and well done. My 3 1/2 year old loves it. Read more
Published 3 months ago by js12981
5.0 out of 5 stars
My 2 year old's new favorite
When I first flipped through the book upon receipt I thought my 2 year old would find the illustrations bland and the story too long but to my pleasure and surprise she loves it... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Jabberwocky
5.0 out of 5 stars
childhood memories
I read this in school. my children had this book. and now I bought it for my grand children! tradition!
Published 4 months ago by jo akin
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Lovely Book
I know my mother read this book to me when I was a little girl, though I confess I had completely forgotten what it was about. It's just a lovely timeless sort of story though. Read more
Published 5 months ago by J. R. Thorup
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