书名：Thimble Summer 银顶针的夏天
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数810L
作者：Elizabeth Enright
出版社名称：Square Fish
出版时间：2008
语种：英文 
ISBN：9780312380021
商品尺寸：13.5 x 1 x 19 cm
包装：平装
页数：144（以实物为准）

Thimble Summer《银顶针的夏天》是1939年纽伯瑞金奖作品。

在这部作品里，作者描绘了一幅幅纯真的乡间生活，一场场幸福的温情画面。你会为加妮特和小伙伴们纯粹的快乐而沉醉，为他们淳朴的田园生活而心醉；为西特罗妮拉的太姥姥讲述父亲对她的爱而感动，为加妮特的父亲在经济不宽裕的情况下收养流浪儿埃里克而动容。你仿佛能够闻到空气中散发出的玉米、燕麦、干草和马粪气息，感受到加妮特和哥哥杰伊在大雨中奔跑的欢畅淋漓，以及小猪“汤米”获得蓝绶带后加妮特发自内心的欣喜。加妮特对大自然充满了爱，对生活充满了希望，她的快乐、善良、开朗和乐观让人为之感动，充满了感染力。这就是本书《银顶针的夏天》的独特魅力，是它能够经久不衰的奥秘。
美国《图书馆杂志》评论道：“在美国威斯康星州的农场里，在一片纯真的乡间田野上，作者透过小主人公的生活，展现出一个欢乐而惊奇的幸运之夏。”

美国《纽约时报》则评它为：“一部充满人情味的幽默小说，流露出作者对于现实生活的感悟。”

Review
One of the best written of this season's juveniles.... will interest both girls and boys, since it is about Garnet Linden and her brother Jay, and can find readers up to twelve and over. The setting is a middle-western farm, and the descriptions of wind and weather are vivid and authentic. There is a truly American quality about it that delighted me.'― Rosemary Carr Benet, The Saturday Review of Literature.

“This story of a Wisconsin farm sings with the happiness and contentment of a small girl whose roots are sinking deep into the soil of a loved place.”―School Library Journal, Starred Review

“This is a story of the sort for which there is a constant demand. . . . There is the flavor of real life . . . expressed with charm and humor.”―The New York Times Book Review

如果把加妮特的日子捧在手里，准能闻到太阳暖烘烘的香味，还有燕麦、玉米和各种蔬果、花卉的清香，甚至是圆白菜烂在地里的不太好闻的气味。在加妮特看来，所有的一切都是快乐和好运的味道，当然是指她在河滩上捡到那枚银顶针以后。
那以后——也就是当天晚上，暴雨如注，干涸的土地重获生机，家庭农场的所有作物都有了好收成；烧石灰的夜晚，他们意外地得到了勇敢又能干的流浪儿埃里克；和好朋友在图书馆看书，被管理员不小心锁在了里面直至深夜，加妮特认为那是难得的一次冒险；而且，加妮特也不觉得被出故障的摩天轮悬在空中半个小时有多倒楣，因为下来后就得知，她精心饲养的小猪“添米”获得了一条蓝绶带……
拥有银顶针的这个夏天，几乎给了加妮特童年所有的温暖和幸福。
A few hours after nine-year-old Garnet Linden finds a silver thimble in the dried-up riverbed, the rains come and end the long drought on the farm. The rains bring safety for the crops and the livestock, and money for Garnet's father. Garnet can't help feeling that the thimble is a magic talisman, for the summer proves to be interesting and exciting in so many different ways.
There is the arrival of Eric, an orphan who becomes a member of the Linden family; the building of a new barn; and the county fair at which Garnet's carefully tended pig, Timmy, wins a blue ribbon. Every day brings adventure of some kind to Garnet and her best friend, Citronella. As far as Garnet is concerned, the thimble is responsible for each good thing that happens during this magic summer―her thimble summer.

伊丽莎白·恩赖特，出生于美国伊利诺伊州奥克帕克，但一生中多数时间都生活在纽约市内或市郊。她的母亲是杂志插图画家，父亲是政治漫画家。受家庭的艺术熏陶，伊丽莎白·恩赖特早选择的职业是画插图，曾在康涅狄格州的格林威治、法国巴黎以及纽约帕森设计学院学习艺术。可在1937年出版第一本书之后，她对写作产生了浓厚兴趣，并迅速展示出这方面的才华。
一生中多次获得大奖：《银顶针的夏天》在 1939 年荣获得纽伯瑞儿童文学金奖，《消失的湖》于1958年荣获纽伯瑞儿童文学银奖。
Elizabeth Enright (1907-1968) was a talented writer whose many awards include the 1939 John Newbery Medal for Thimble Summer and a 1958 Newbery Honor for Gone-Away Lake. Among her other beloved titles are her books about the Melendy family, beginning with The Saturdays (1941). Enright also wrote short stories for adults, and her work was published in The New Yorker, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s, and The Saturday Evening Post.