![]() ![]() ![]() The closet between her room and Rosalind’s is to her a “secret passage.” Skye, the second eldest, is orderly, organized, and also hot-tempered. ![]() Batty is “the littlest,” and the shyest of the lot who never goes anywhere without her orange and black butterfly wings. Rosalind is the the eldest of the motherless brood and it’s obvious that she’s the eldest, protective as she is of her sisters, and attuned as she is to the vagaries of their moods and personalities. The four Penderwick sisters range from age 4 to 12. There is an ineffable something about Birdsall’s chronicle that goes beyond the words that she uses to tell it. Of all the children’s books that I’ve read in recent years it’s Jeanne Birdsall’s The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, And A Very Interesting Boy that takes me back to the stories of my childhood. ![]()
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