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Title: One Morning in Maine (Picture Puffin)
ISBN: 0140501746
Author:
Robert McCloskey
Publicate Date: 1976-09-30
Publish: 1976-09-30
List Price: $6.99
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Format: Paperback
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1: Love this book
This is one of my childhood favorites; I had this book growing up but lost it somewhere and when I found it here I bought it.
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2: Vintage Vignette
This is a book from another time.
Here's a summary of the action: Sal wakes up. While brushing her teeth she notices that one is loose. She tells her mother. She makes a wish. She goes to tell her father who is digging clams. On the way she sees a fish hawk, a loon and a seal. She tells her father. She drops the tooth in the mud and loses it. She picks up a seagull feather. Sal, her father and her sister go into town. Her father cannot start the motor on the motor boat so he rows across the bay. Sal tells several people in town about her missing tooth. The motor is fixed. The grocer gives Sal an ice cream cone (her wish). They return home for clam chowder.
That's it.
But this is a book from another time.
The cadence is graceful, the illustrations spare but satisfying, and really, when it's over you realize that everything that needed to happen, happened.
There is much wonder in small things...
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3: One Morning in Maine
My 8 year old thought it was old and boring but he did seem interested in a few parts of the story. Probably a little outdated for kids these days but I loved it. It was the kind of story I would read when I was little, but I am going on 50.
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4: Good book for the older crowd
This is a very long, very wordy book. It's not suitable for last minute bedtimes, nor for toddlers.
It's very suitable for kids in the older end of the 4-8 range, or littler kids with a good attention span, though.
Not much happens in the story - girl loses a tooth, gets her wish of ice cream, has clam chowder for lunch - which is just the way real life works. It's so well-written that you don't even *notice* that the story moves slowly, you might as well be talking about your own life.
I really sound like I'm criticizing, but I'm not. All the points I'm mentioning actually make it a good book. Really :) Definitely don't pass this classic book by.
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5: Morning magic
To a child, every morning is a new start with infinite possibilities; at least that's how it should be. In this classic 1953 book Robert McCloskey brings a child's simple world to life. McCloskey, better known for his Make Way for Ducklings and Blueberries for Sal, gives us another look at little Sal. The story is timeless and his line drawings bring the children to life.
The simple coastal lifestyle of more than half a century ago may be hard to find today, in part because of the high local tax valuation of shore and island properties. Still, if you were to take a child to the rocky coast of Maine this summer, she could be little Sal in the clam flats. One Morning in Maine (Picture Puffin) is full of that magical atmosphere where the land and ocean meet. We all want that magic!
McCloskey's Caldecott-honored book tells a simple story. Young Sal wakes up on a sunny morning in Maine with an adventure in store. She and her little sister are going with their father in the boat to Buck's Harbor to dig clams. There are idyllic family scenes, lessons from their father about the world around them, ice cream cones at the store, and the disappointment of a loose tooth lost in the clam flats.
Simple stuff? It certainly is, and just the sort of simple stuff children thrive on. Sal's morning may be long ago and far away, but the curiosity and wonder of a child's new day will be with us forever.
Linda Bulger, 2008
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