It's already been established that baseball exists primarily to serve as a metaphor for the meaning of life. If you didn't get that from Malamud's The Natural or Kinsella's Shoeless Joe, then surely you got it from Mays' Say Hey or Kahn's The Boys of Summer. So it should come as no surprise that Summerland, the young adult/kids novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon, reiterates this all-important theme. And should you be a reader who is only happy when the Red Sox are winning or who actually doesn't like baseball -- should you fail to appreciate that "a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day," to quote Chabon -- then Summerland is even more important for you. ... read it by yourself or with/to a child.

This is a perfect book for the adult reading to child/chapter book/spread over time/chapter at a time book.

Meant to enjoy!