The Pleasant Summer Sun
by Muriel Newton-White
The well-known author, artist, and illustrator, Muriel Newton-White, who has touched so many hearts with her children's books, writes a series of enchanting narratives to reflect her nostalgic memories of childhood in the 1930s. The first ten years of her life were spent living in a Toronto streetcar that had been sent north to provide emergency shelter after the Great Fire of 1922. The Pleasant Summer Sun, a sequel to The Cold Wind in The Winter, shares with you the adventures and hardships endured during that period as seen through the eyes of a child.
Muriel E. Newton-White has long entertained northern Ontarians with her children's stories, of which Rabbit Tales of Temiskaming, Squirrel Tails, November Rabbit Tails, and Christmas Gift are the best known. She is also the author of the best-seller, Backhouses of the North, a nostalgic and humorous account of days gone by. Her sensitive drawings, together with the clever wit of her writings, have combined to establish her reputation as the foremost of northern Ontario writers.
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ISBN: 0-88954-333-X | WMPub#1195 | 5½ x 8½
202 page Trade paperback many illustrations, sketches and photographs | $9.95
Table of Contents
1. "Let Us Rejoice, the Spring's Here!"
2. Cloud Shadows
3. Caterpillars and Butterflies
4. "The Lake Is Open!"
5. A Trip to Town
6. "To Fetch a Pall of Water
7. Showers of Gold
8. Dad Gets a Job
9. Dandelion Leaves
10. "All Things Bright and Beautiful"
11. "Why Is Daddy In Bed?"
12. The Spring Sun
13. Planting the Garden
14. Trouble Brewing
15. The Magic Garden
16. Moomoo's Birthday
17. "All Creatures Great and Small"
18. Getting Tough
19. "Each Little Flower that Opens
20. "Here Comes Powder!"
21. A Trip Up the Lake
22. In the Long Ago
23. Water-Lily Dreams
24. Water from the Lake
25. When the Timothy Blooms
26. Haying Time
27. The Picnic Place
28. The Orange Parade
29. Thunderstorm
30. The Wanagan
31. "Pretty Mummy"
32. At Grandmother's
33. A Visit from the Cousins
34. "Our Wedding Day"
35. Tools for Rough Carpentry
36. "Tell Me the Stories of Jesus"
37. "The Ripe Fruits in the Garden."
38. Another Trip to Town
39. 'The Porcupine Advance .
40. The King's High Way
41. The Cedar Boom
42. A Surprise for Grandmother
43, "Aunt Elsie Is Coming!"
44, Blueberries
45. Mother's Birthday
46. September
47. "Your First Partridge!"
48. Gathering Moss
49. "Our Place
50. Preparing for Winter
51. "Happy Birthday, Brother!"
52. All Hallowe'en
53. Memories