Lucy's Summer by Donald Hall

   Lucy's Summer tells the story of two sisters who live in rural New Hampshire with their mother who is a milliner. Lucy's Summer has all the charm and sweetness of a bygone era and it will make you want to transport back into the early 1900s to experience some of what Caroline and Lucy experience.

   The girls, Lucy and Caroline, help with the canning and food preservation and watch their mother as she makes new hats for the surrounding farm families. At one point they take the "peanut" train to Boston for hat inspiration and eat oyster stew, frankfurters and Boston baked beans for the first time in their lives.

 

Donald Hall

   Lucy's Summer is illustrated by Michael McCurdy's stunning wood engravings. McCurdy
also illustrated Hannah's Farm which has been a great favorite around here for years and American Tall Tales by Mary Pope Osborne (of Magic Treehouse fame). Oh, and how could I forget! Lucy's Summer and Lucy's Christmas are also treasures!

    Donald Hall is the author and quite the author in his own rite. He currently resides in New Hampshire in a farm house. I love his poetry and cry every time I read Green Farmhouse Chairs. It reminds me so of my grandparent's farm in the Central Valley.