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Thimble Summer
Author
Elizabeth Enright
Illustrator
Elizabeth Enright
Language
English
Genre
Children's novel
Publisher
Farrar & Rinehart
Publication date
1938
Publication place
United States
Media type
Print (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN
9780440486817
Thimble Summer is a novel by Elizabeth Enright that won the 1939 Newbery Medal.[1] It is set in Depression-era rural Wisconsin.
The very evening that nine-year-old Garnet Linden finds a silver thimble in a dried-up riverbed near the farm where she lives, the drought that has threatened her family's financial future is broken with a rainstorm. The days that follow are filled with exciting events: the Lindens come by money to rebuild their barn, Garnet's pig wins a blue ribbon at the fair, and a young boy named Eric comes to live with the Lindens as their adopted son.
When the time comes for the show, Garnet is stuck on the Ferris wheel. She can't get down for almost another hour, and the show starts in thirty minutes.
The summer is so wonderful that Garnet comes to believe that the thimble had magical powers, and she vows to remember that time as her "thimble summer."
In another chapter, "Locked In," Garnet and her friend, Citronella, stay too long at the library and are locked in for the night.
^"Newbery Medal Winners, 1922 - Present". www.ala.org. Association for Library Service to Children. Archived from the original on 12 March 2019. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
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