Summer of the Swans

The Summer of the Swans | Betsy Cromer Byars

#IdiomInsight

#SwanSong is usually a final accomplishment or performance, one's last work. This idiom alludes to the old belief that swans normally are mute but burst into beautiful song moments before they die. Although the idea is much older, the term was first recorded in English in 1890.

I thought of the swans in Newberry Award winning book from my childhood that was adapted as an ABC Afterschool Special in 1974. (Those were the days!) 😉

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 👌🏻📚🙌🏻 7mo

quirkyreader I like how the packaging look like a Trapper Keeper. 7mo

Eggs Beautifully done ❤️🦢🤗 7mo

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GatheringBooks

Summer of the Swans | Betsy Byars

#WeRemember Day 8: I actually own one #BetsyByars title - the tagged book - waiting to be read. Story of our lives.

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs She had some fine illustrators 2y

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Eggs

Summer of the Swans | Betsy Byars

These are but a fraction of the many books she wrote. Betsy Byars won the 1971 Newbery Medal and many other literary awards. She died 2 years ago at the age of 91.

#BetsyByars #WeRemember @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 📚🤍 2y

Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 😍 2y

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BucklingBookshelves

Summer of the Swans | Betsy Byars

Book 2 done for #TwoInThree! This one checked a lot of reading goal boxes for me!

Summer-themed ✔️
Newbery Challenge✔️
Classics Club ✔️

Samplergal

Samplergal Yessss! 6y

smilingshelves I read this one a couple of months ago. Congrats on completing two books this weekend! 6y

BucklingBookshelves thanks @Samplergal & @smilingshelves! 6y

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Elizabeth2

Summer of the Swans | Betsy Byars

Reading this out loud to my sickie, who is quarantined in her room. I think my girlie has the flu. Fever, fatigue & cough. She had a flu shot, so I‘m hoping it‘s mild. Also hoping it stays with her and the rest of the family doesn‘t get it. Washing hands like crazy!!

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TobeyTheScavengerMonk

Summer of the Swans | Betsy Byars

#12DaysofChristmas Swans and Maid(en)s

Had to read Summer of the Swans when coaching Battle of the Books and it‘s one of those books for kids that deals with heavy family issues without a lot of levity.

I haven‘t read the pictured Batman story but it was the first thing that came to mind. It‘s a classic Batman versus Ra‘s Al Ghul story and gets reissued every few years

LibrarianRyan

LibrarianRyan Longer It. 👍🎅🏻🎄 6y

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DebinHawaii

The Summer of the Swans | Betsy Cromer Byars

#12DaysofChristmas #7SwansASwimming I'm picking Sara and Charlie Godfrey from this 1971 Newbery Medal winner that I read and enjoyed as a child. Charlie, 10, is mentally disabled after a childhood fever and loves to watch the swans swimming in the lake but disappears and Sara, his 14-year-old sister, must find him. I haven't read this one in years and years-I may have to see if the library has a copy and reread it. 📚💙

LibrarianRyan

Blueberry Nice collage 😊 6y

DebinHawaii @Blueberry Thank you! 😊💜 6y

LibrarianRyan Love this books. 👍🏻🤓🎅🏼🎄 6y

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jess_mccoy

The Summer of the Swans | Betsy Cromer Byars

This post contains spoilers

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I love Sara in this paragraph.
(And prison shirt only means a souvenir t-shirt, nothing related to actual prison)
(Marked spoiler because this is in the the end, a moment of change and clarity for Sara, but it's an almost 50 year old book, so there's probably a small group of people who would be concerned about spoilers.)

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jess_mccoy

The Summer of the Swans | Betsy Cromer Byars