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In a rainbow-colored station wagon that smelled like a real car, the relatives came. When they arrived, they hugged and hugged from the kitchen to the front room. All summer they tended the garden and ate up all the strawberries and melons. They plucked banjos and strummed guitars... Read Full Overview

The relatives' station wagon: it smelled like a real car, looked like a rainbow, and was roomy enough for a crowd.
Lucky! Because a big crowd in all shapes and sizes piled into that old wagon at four o'clock one summer morning and piled out of it the next day at their relatives'... Read Full Overview

When a carload of their relatives pay a visit, a beleaguered family cannot tell one cousin from another. A Caldecott Honor Book.

America's classic picture book, from the text to the pictures, vividly expresses the joy, sweetness and happiness of relatives and friends coming together from afar! Won the Caldecott Silver Medal in 1986Recommendation of "Picture Book 365" book list In a summer when the grapes... Read Full Overview