This well loved falling apart library book is just stunning. Wonderful illustrations, beautiful end papers and a warm fuzzy type summer read. Perfect for July.
Publish in 1938 Thimble Summer is a novel by Elizabeth Enright that won the 1939 Newbery Medal. It is set in Depression-era rural Wisconsin.
📘The very evening that nine-year-old Garnet Linden finds a silver thimble in a dried-up riverbed near the farm where she lives, the drought that has threatened her family’s financial future is broken with a rainstorm. The days that follow are filled with exciting events: the Lindens come by money to rebuild their barn, Garnet’s pig wins a blue ribbon at the fair, and a young boy named Eric comes to live with the Lindens as their adopted son. The summer is so wonderful that Garnet comes to believe that the thimble had magical powers, and she vows to remember that time as her “thimble summer.” In another chapter, “Locked In,” Garnet and her friend, Citronella, stay too long at the library and are locked in for the night.
Summertime.
