一部关于亲情、手足、友谊和自我追寻的小说，为读者唤醒纯真美好的心。The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy 是Jeanne Birdsall的处女作，发表同年即获选2005年美国国家书卷奖青少年文学作品，该奖将它比作现代版的《小妇人》和《寻宝奇谋》，讲述的是四个个性鲜明的姊妹花与父亲在某个夏天发生的故事。主人翁分别为12岁的大姐罗莎琳、11岁的二姊丝凯、10岁的老三珍，和4岁的小妹贝蒂。4个姐妹、1个有趣的男孩以及2只兔子，共同经历了一场难忘的夏日冒险之旅。
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy is a children's novel by Jeanne Birdsall, published by Knopf in 2005. It won the annual U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature (United States).
This was Birdsall's first book published and it inaugurated the "Penderwick sisters" series, whose third chronicle of five that Birdsall plans was published in 2011. Both A Summer Tale and its sequel The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (Knopf, April 2008) were New York Times Best Sellers.
The novel was inspired by the kind of stories the author read when growing up, The National Book Award citation compares the novel to Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and E. Nesbit's The Story of the Treasure Seekers.[4] The fictional setting is more modern than Alcott's or Nesbit's, although not clearly contemporary with Birdsall's writing.
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