For a growing boy, the summer of 1928 was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Green apple trees, groomed lawns, and new shoes abound this summer. Grandma's belly-busting supper, half-burned firecrackers, picking dandelions Summer was full of tragedies, wonders, and gold-fuzzed bees. The legendary Ray Bradbury remembers a magnificent, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old kid called Douglas Spaulding.
The following short tales are interwoven throughout the work: Illumination, Dandelion Wine, Summer in the Air, Season of Sitting, The Happiness Machine, The Night, The Lawns of Summer, Season of Disbelief, The Last--the Very Last, The Green Machine, The Trolley, Statues, The Window, The Swan, The Whole Town's Sleeping, Goodbye Grandma, The Tarot Witch, Hotter Than Summer, Dinner at Dawn, The Magical Kitchen, Green Wine for Dreaming.
Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.
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