“A rose is a rose / And everything grows / When summer is summer is summer.” Inspired by a quote from Gertrude Stein (“A rose is a rose is a rose”), Phillis and David Gershator offer a catalog of summer sights, sounds, and activities in a lyrical picture book featuring trees and bees, holes and moles, logs and frogs, clouds and crowds, and much more summer fun. Some children won’t be able to resist coming up with their own summery observations. A pool is a pool is a pool perhaps? Cool is cool is cool? Sophie Blackall’s inviting illustrations picture a quartet (no, not a trio) of children, two white and two black. (Ages 3–6)

School is out and it's the perfect time to explore the magic of summer!

What is summer? For so many children summer is lemonade and salty air, baseball and ice cream, fireflies and starry nights, and much, much more. Join four friends as they explore the outdoor world of summer and all its sensory pleasures. Phillis and David Gershator's evocative language and Sophie Blackall's imaginative pictures celebrate this fun-filled season.