Type Book
Date 1948
Series Caldecott Honor (1949)
Tags picture book, children's book, fiction

Blueberries for Sal

A Caldecott Honor Book. Sal and her mother go out to pick blueberries to store for the winter. A bear cub and its mother have the same idea, and the mothers and children get mixed up. Excellent line art and a cute story. The parallel between the bears storing up fat for the winter and the humans preserving blueberries is a good one, and their actions, too, parallel one another satisfyingly.

Name Role
Robert McCloskey Author / Illustrator