Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright; Illustrated by Elizabeth Enright
	List Price:   $21.95 Unit Price:   $17.56 You Save:   $4.39 (20%) ISBN-10:   0805003061 ISBN-13:   9780805003062 Publisher:   Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) Edition:   Revised, illustrated Category:   Beginning Readers Pub. Date:   January 1990 Pages:   124 Format:   Hardcover; Cloth over boards Ages:   7 and UP Grades:   2 and up
Subjects
CHILDREN'S FICTION
Description/Notes
A small girl on a Wisconsin farm finds a magic thimble. Newbery Award winner, 1939. A few hours after nine-year-old Garnet Linden finds a silver thimble in the dried-up riverbed, the rains come and end the long drought on the farm. The rains bring safety for the crops and the livestock, and money for Garnet's father. Garnet can't help feeling that the thimble is a magic talisman, for the summer proves to be interesting and exciting in so many different ways. There is the arrival of Eric, an orphan who becomes a member of the Linden family; the building of a new barn; and the county fair at which Garnet's carefully tended pig, Timmy, wins a blue ribbon. Every day brings adventure of some kind to Garnet and her best friend, Citronella. As far as Garnet is concerned, the thimble is responsible for each good thing that happens during this magic summer-- her thimble summer. 'This story of a Wisconsin farm sings with the happiness and contentment of a small girl whose roots are sinking deep into the soil of a loved place.'--Library Journal, starred review 'This is a story of the sort for which there is a constant demand....There is the flavor of real life...expressed with charm and humor.'--The New York Times Book Review A summer full of happiness and good times begins after a little girl finds a silver thimble at the swimming hole. 'One of the best written of this season's juveniles.... will interest both girls and boys, since it is about Garnet Linden and her brother Jay, and can find readers up to twelve and over. The setting is a middle-western farm, and the descriptions of wind and weather are vivid and authentic. There is a truly American quality about it that delighted me.' - Rosemary Carr Benet, The Saturday Review of Literature.