Thimble summer / written and illustrated by Elizabeth Enright.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York, NY : Square Fish / Henry Holt, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: First Square Fish editionDescription: 136 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780312380021
- 031238002X
- 9781439518205
- 1439518203
- Newbery Medal, 1939.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's | ENRIGHT ELIZABET | 1939 | Checked out | Newbery/Caldecott Award Winner | 04/26/2024 | 33111010536742 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A silver thimble and a new friend make a girl's summer magical in Elizabeth Enright's Thimble Summer.
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.
The silver thimble -- The coral bracelet -- The lime kiln -- The stranger -- Locked in -- Journey -- "As a ragpicker's pocket" -- Fair day -- Ice-cream cones and blue ribbons -- The silver thimble.
Unusual things begin to happen when a young girl finds a silver thimble.
Ages 5-7.
Lexile: 810L.
Newbery Medal, 1939.