This is a sweet little story about a brother and sister and the power of imagination. They take a short adventure in which they never have to leave the blackberry patch in their back yard. It's a book for young children that they will no doubt want y... Read more

This is a sweet little story about a brother and sister and the power of imagination. They take a short adventure in which they never have to leave the blackberry patch in their back yard. It's a book for young children that they will no doubt want you to read again and again. Kitty Bullard / Great Minds Think Aloud Book Club Dorothy and Squeaky ran down the path. Splashed across the tiny brook. Hurried past the stinky skunk cabbage. Waved to the red-headed woodpecker banging his nose against an old tree. And came to the huckleberry patch. Hundreds of blue huckleberries. Thousands of fat huckleberries. Millions of juicy huckleberries. They stuffed their mouths and stuffed them again, and were about to stuff them some more when they heard a sound nearby. They went over to see who it was, except it wasn't nobody. It was a big, black, sow bear, eating huckleberries like everybody else. Except she didn't want to share. She reared up on her hind legs, growled, and waved her long yellow claws in the air. A very selfish bear. And then she dropped down on all fours and started toward them. "RUN!" Dorothy shouted. And they ran. They ran into the woods. Past squawking blue jays. Past two noisy squirrels jumping up and down on a tree branch. Past a brown rabbit with big, blue eyes staring at them as they ran by. Past the green bushes and the green trees. Deeper and deeper into the Darkwood. They ran and ran until they couldn't run anymore. They looked back to see if the big, black, sow bear was following them. No sow bear. She was back at the huckleberry patch eating all those juicy huckleberries. It was getting dark and everything looked very strange. "Are bushes and trees supposed to be red?" Squeaky asked. Dorothy decided that they were in a very creepy place. Everything became very quiet as it got darker and darker. The strange trees and bushes disappeared into the darkness. "What are we going to do?" Squeaky asked, holding his sister's hand very tight."Well it's too dark to find our way home Less