Book Review: Time of Wonder (by Robert McCloskey)
Looking out at Penobscot Bay from Camden, Maine (by K. Walters) I've read a lot of great books. Almost all of my favorites are non-fiction works that either tell the story of someone's journey, document an adventure, describe the science behind a natural phenomenon, or give a look into a historical event. Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey is a fiction book that does none of the above. In fact, it's a children's book. But it also happens to be my very favorite children's book. I've read it with my daughters on many occasions and it still makes our senses and our minds come alive. McCloskey weaves a tale of a summer spent at the family cottage on an island in Maine's incredibly beautiful Penobscot Bay. You follow the siblings in the story like their shadow as they listen to a rain approaching the shore, as they spend a foggy morning on the edge of nowhere, and as they sail near "porpoises puffing". The idyllic summer beg...