This book begins with May when it is still cold in the Northwoods and continues through December. It is the story of how summer days in the north are savored and appreciated as the people prepare for winter. Many children have thoughts like these, but more to enjoy summer days in preparation for school days, and so they will relate to the sentence: "Summer is the time . . . to collect lots of warm memories to make it through the long, cold winter." Surely people everywhere there are cold winters who can understand such thoughts. ( )