Here's another read that I vividly recall from my childhood summers: The Secret Three by Mildred Myrick with drawings by Arnold Lobel (c. 1963).
The Secret Three is a wonderful story of friendship that begins when Billy and Mark find a secret message inside a bottle that washed up onto the beach. (Seriously, doesn't that alone make you want to run out to get it?!) See if you can decode the messages as you follow along Billy and Mark's seaside, summer adventure. And be delighted - once again - by Arnold Lobel's excellent illustrations. He has an uncanny way of capturing that essence of feeling we associate with each season.
Oh, and did I mention that this is a good book for those early readers too?
What a charming book. Nothing like finding a bottle that floated from somewhere and with a secret message!
ReplyDeleteOn a similar theme (sort of similar) have you read the book Paddle to the Sea by C. Holling? That was one of my favourite childhood books.