BIO: Ray Bradbury American writer (Erik Gregersen, Encyclopaedia Britannica) See also: Ray Bradbury ( 4 books reviewed)īrothers Judd Top 100 of the 20th Century: Novels Of Bradbury's youth and to the halcyon days of your own. Read it for the dual experience of being transported back to the Midwest This is a book about the value of traditions and rituals and memoriesĪnd the golden hour of youth, before we take on the burden of responsibilities. On end, lying in bed listening to West Coast baseball games on the radio You spent playing kick the can or baseball, cooking out in the yard, emergingįrom the water smelling of chlorine or brine, riding bicycles for hours Likewise, uncorking this book will summon forth those endless days that Will recall the scents and sensations of summer throughout the year. Wine that his family bottles at the beginning of the summer and which

His sheer joy at the smell of his newmown lawn, all of these resonate in Refusal to countenance newfangled grass that doesn't need mowing, indeed, Pair of sneakers, or a dish of ice cream on a sweltering night, his grandfather's Nor because it evokes Bradbury's childhood, but because it will bring back Is marvelous not merely because of the joyful exuberance of Doug's adventures, Old boy living in Green Town, IL in the Summer of 1928.

In this magical coming of age story, Douglas Spaulding is a 12 year

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