Letter to the Lake

by Susan Marie Swanson

A colorful picture book contrasts Rosie's warm-toned summer memories at the lake with her present cool, winter wonderland, and the connection between the two worlds is a house-shaped stone that she brought home last summer from the lake.

Genres: Picture Books

32 pages, Hardcover

First published March 15, 1998

About the author

Susan Marie Swanson is an award-winning poet and the author of many books, including The First Thing My Mama Told Me, a Charlotte Zolotow Honor Book and New York Times Best Illustrated Book. For more than twenty years she has been writing poetry with children through COMPAS Writers and Artists in the Schools and the summer arts program at St. Paul Academy. She looks at the moon through the branches of the old oak trees that surround the yellow house where she lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, with her family.