Letter to the Lake by Susan Marie Swanson ande Peter Catalonotto

I love going to the lake in the summer and have always been around the water every summer. The beginning of the book is a letter from a little girl saying how much she misses the lake and how what she remembers about it. The little girl goes on to say that she misses the summer now because it is winter and very cold. This reminds me of harsh Iowan winters and how much I look forward to the summer during these times. She notices that he mother is stressed out because her buttons are crooked and this is a great example of how observant children are. The illistrations in the book are very creative such as when the illistrator shows the little girl eating her breakfast and her mother in the background stressing out about a bill in the reflection of the toaster. Another example of this creativity is when the illistrator shows the little girl smiling at her mother in the car through in the reflection of the car window.