Picture book · Fiction
Blueberries for Sal
Robert McCloskey
About the book
Little Sal and her mother go blueberry picking on one side of a hill while a bear cub and its mother do the same on the other — and the pairs get mixed up.
Reading notes
Gentle suspense and humor in parallel storylines.
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Recognition
- Caldecott Honor (1949)
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Book details
- Author
- Robert McCloskey
- First published
- 1948
- Suggested ages
- Ages 3–6 (editorial estimate — children vary)
- Reading mode
- Best read aloud
- Topics
- nature, summer, animals
- Edition shown
- ISBN 9780140501698 · Puffin, September 30, 1976 · paperback
- Catalog record
- Open Library work record · edition record
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