Book-A-Day 19

Farmer's Market is open.  Vegetables are ripe and flowers are blooming.  In Sophie's Squash by Pat Zietlow Miller and Anne Wilsdorf, although set in fall, Sophie goes to the farmer's market with her parents.  It is there that she finds a squash.  The squash becomes Sophie's friend and she names the squash Bernice.  They play together and have a great time.  That is, until Bernice begins getting spotty and soft.  Sophie asks a farmer for advice in keeping the squash healthy.  He tells her it needs air, dirt, and love.  This story shows the value of friendship, no matter who the friend.  Sophie's Squash is an Ezra Jack Keats Honor Book.  #BookADay19