Becca at Sea Book

I love reading well written children's books and this sweet discription of a ten year old girl's experience with her Gran and family on a small island in Vancouver, BC. Horn Book's review sums it up better than I could.
"With a lovingly depicted island setting the readers will yearn to visit, this funny endearing book should find a wide audience." Not just children either! in my HO. There are lots of lessons for all stages of life.

I have become a Deirdre Baker follower. Becca has more episodic adventures that I'd like save for a perfect time but I'm enthralled in this mellow feeling, that all is well, and I will take time out from "serious" reading to savor the charm and skill of the writer. Here is one favorite notion:
Becca and her two older cousins enter a woods surrounding a glade. The sweet smell of wildflowers and moss, and the silver bark of a tree, inspires Becca to hug a tree and make a wish. " 'What are you doing', Alicia demanded. She and Lucy were standing at the edge of the salal (heath), watching Becca curiously. 'What I want,' she said, still holding the tree."
Watch out Lucy Maud Montgomery!