Blueberry for Sal is a children's drawing book by Robert McCloskey. It was awarded Caldecott Honor in 1949.
The story shows a little girl, Sal, and her mother as they go and pick blueberries for winter - and a bear and her mother as they go and eat berries for winter from the other side of the same hill. Set in a small town in Maine, this picture book uses a dark blue color and block printing for illustrations. Ms. Sal and Sal were modeled after McCloskey's daughter, Sally, and Peggy's wife.
Blueberry for Sal was ranked 13th among the "Top 100 Picture Books" in a 2009 survey published by the School Library Journal . It ranks number 31 in a repetition three years later.
Video Blueberries for Sal
Plot summary
"The book opens and closes with a picture of Little Sal and his mother in the kitchen, his mother is a blueberry canning... One sees in this opening image Sal entertaining himself by placing a canning ring on his wrist and spoon, a simple act like a child that helps to set the stage for the obvious actions of Sal's children throughout the book.This is not to be an overly diligent girl or an angel of so many other books, Sal is a real child figure.He becomes misbehavior and causes her mother not to end of trouble. "
Little Sal's mother took her to Blueberry Hill to pick berries. Sal dropped three berries into his bucket and ate them. This continues as he and his mother concentrate on the berry and gradually separate on the hill. What they did not realize was that the bear mother and her son also came to Blueberry Hill to eat berries for the winter. This book uses a number of visual and verbal techniques to compare and differentiate bears and human families. Both family photos have similar compositions, but they point in the opposite direction when they reach the blueberry patch. Little Sal's mom tells him that they can not eat all the berries because they have to keep them for the winter, but the bear mother tells her son to eat as much as he can to accumulate fat for the winter. The way the bear prepares the winter is more natural for Sal who soon wanders to eat.
Sal and the bear boy intervened and followed him after the wrong mother. It takes mom a few minutes to realize they are being followed by the wrong child; not until the bear child tries to eat from the bucket of Sal's mother and the bear mother hears the "ku-plink, ku-plank, ku-plunk" voice from Sal that drops the blueberries into his bucket so they realize what's going on. Eventually each child reunited with the right mother and they both left the hill. Just before leaving Sal, drop the blueberry into the empty bucket. The final paper shows Sal again playing in the kitchen while her mother can berry.
A sequel, One Morning in Maine , took place a few years later, and revisited little Sal and his mother, and introduced Sal's father and sister.
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Movie adaptation
The book was adapted as a short film in 1967 by Weston Woods, narrated by Owen Jordan. In short it only consists of snapshots of the original book illustrations - colored in them - and displays a musical score performed entirely by wood instruments. This short film is included in the Scholastic DVD of Make Way for Ducklings and More Robert McCloskey Stories (2004), along with Make Way for Ducklings and Time of Wonder >.
References
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