Gloria and Ted Rand are an amazing husband/wife team. However, I think they sometimes write books for adults more than children. As a somewhat nerdy/serious kid, I loved them then and I love them now, but they are not books that are going to get kids worked up. They are quiet and generally somewhat nostalgic. And they tend to be wordy.
This story is no different. Using memories of the Rand family cabin, the story follows a little girl and her experiences at the cabin through her childhood.
Great story, but you need to know your audience. Are they thoughtful? Can they sit quietly for several paragraphs before another page turn/picture?
It was a very snowy day when I was taking picture, which seemed fitting.
I even had a snowy pinecone.
Ted Rand does such brilliant landscape/nature scenes.
The little girl is entrusted with unlocking the door, which is a huge honor.
Aren't these pictures great?
Carrying in the wood
Love, love, love this picture!
The joys of enamelware.
Listening to stories and watching the flames.
Coziness. Doesn't that blanket look realistic?!
Also, the next picture (that I didn't get a picture of) shows the little mice scurrying around, so not cozy and no sleep for me.
The family cabin is all very well and good, but mice ruin all the warm fuzzys. My husband's family has a family cabin in the Rocky Mountains. One time we took my cousin and his wife for a weekend and didn't bring quite enough bedding, so we gave them the sleeping bags and ended up using the sheets/blankets that were already on the bed. It was dark when we went to sleep and I just thought there was sand in the sheets, but.... in the morning, I saw it wasn't sand. It was mouse dirt.
I still love the cabin, but I don't plan on forgetting sleeping bags ever again.
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