Dandelion Wine Final

In Dandelion Wine there is a kid named Douglas who is pretty much the main character and his little brother Tom. The book basically tells the story of their summer. These kids love summer a lot and they hate the winter. They live in a small town where there isn’t much to do except go out in the wilderness and kick it.

Dandelion wine is a wine that they make every summer and it reminds the kids of summer. I don’t think that the kids drink the wine in the book but when they see it, it reminds them of summer. New shoes also remind Douglas of the beginning of summer because every year at the first of summer he gets new summer shoes.

I would recommend this book to anyone who likes really descriptive writing and lots of riddle type messages and what not. Like at one point there talking about a so called ’green machine’ and for a few pages Ray Bradbury keeps you wondering what the green machine is. He gives lots of hints and clues so that by the time he actually tells what it is you already had a good idea of what it was. It’s not my type of book personally but it’s alright.

Kayden