Making Plum Jam by John Warren Stewig and Kevin O'Malley

I connected with the book immediately when I began reading it because the little boy didn't want to go to her great aunt's house for the week. I used to have to spend a week at one of my great aunt's house in the summer and I would become so bored. Immediately when he gets to the house her aunt asks her what she learned at school that year. That is a universal question that I think every adult ask children when to begin conversation. I further connected with the book when the little boy talks about how his aunt doesn't have electricity. My family went to visit an Amish family when I was younger and I didn't understand why they didn't have lights and in place of them they used candles. I found it cute that the little boy wouldn't eat the bacon at breakfast because the big used to be his friend.
It was funny that the aunts were stealing plums from the neighbor farmer in front of their nephew. The little boy was suprised of their misbehaving! The little boy takes jars of jam back to the farmer with a thank you note that night.