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Poppy and Pa
by Kristyn Jewell
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Poppy cannot wait for summer to arrive so she can travel to her favourite place with her favourite person. When she and her father turn onto the dirt road that takes them to their family cottage, Poppy leaves life’s worries behind. Follow Poppy, Pa, and rest of the their extended family, as they experience the magic that unfolds over the course of a day in Muskoka, Canada. Live in Poppy’s vivid imagination, which flourishes in the safety and beauty of her surroundings, and discover the difference one person can make in the life of a child.
5 out of 5
This was beautiful, nostalgic, and a fun read. Getting to slip into fond memories of summers spent with family was a wonderful way to close up summer as we head into fall. Each chapter is its own mini-story, and you could easily read a chapter to a little one before bed, or early middle grade readers could read it on their own. Jewell did a great job of bringing the story to life with the descriptions, and the illustrations scattered throughout supplement it well. The whole book left me with a warm fuzzy feeling, and brought up my own memories of fun summers, and the people who made them special.
Late afternoons were for resting in the hammock that hung between the Three Sisters, my favourite trio of birch trees, a book resting on my chest. Other days, I would follow my imagination around our property, my bare feet sinking into pillows of soft moss and rough lichens as I climbed up rock faces or followed a path of fallen pine needles. I would name each plant and tree around me as I filled my pockets with acorns, my soles hardened by the end of the summer.
I often ended up at the old hemlock tree, planted by Pa’s own Grandpa Lundgren so many years ago. It grew in time with our family, its roots deeper, its branches wider with each generation of golden-haired children.
Resting against its trunk, the cracked bark supporting my back, I felt anchored to my family, both past, present and those to come. I could gaze up through the lattice of needles and cones knowing where I came from and who I wanted to become
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Kristyn Jewell, a lifelong reader, wrote her first story at the age of 39, inspired by her father and his enduring legacy. She works by day as a family physician, but her true love is the pursuit of hygge, found through travel, design, wildlife, cozy fires and lattes. After living throughout Canada, in Vancouver and Toronto, she and her husband returned to Dundas, Ontario, the quaint valley town that she grew up in, to raise their family. She passes on her love of nature and animals to her two boys and still spends as much time as she can by the water.
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