It can be a best friend moving away, a human time machine who can transport you back to the Civil War, or a sideshow automaton able to glimpse the bittersweet future.Ĭome and savor Ray Bradbury's priceless distillation of all that is eternal about boyhood and summer. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. But as young Douglas is about to discover, summer can be more than the repetition of established rituals whose mystical power holds time at bay. Dandelion Wine is the perfect summer read. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury 65,524 ratings, 4.08 average rating, 5,782 reviews Open Preview Dandelion Wine Quotes Showing 1-30 of 267 Some people turn sad awfully young. Cover and let steep for at least 4 hours and up to 24 hours. It is yesteryear and tomorrow blended into an unforgettable always. Place dandelion flowers in a large heatproof container. It is a pair of brand-new tennis shoes, the first harvest of dandelions for Grandfather's renowned intoxicant, the distant clang of the trolley's bell on a hazy afternoon. Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding knows Green Town, Illinois, is as vast and deep as the whole wide world that lies beyond the city limits. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author's most deeply personal work, a semi-autobiographical recollection of a magical small-town summer in 1928. Ray Bradbury creates an atmosphere nostalgic for long summer days in the Midwest, reminding the reader all the joy and sorrow of being twelve and truly realizing your alive and realizing you too must die one day.

Ray Bradbury's moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. Dandelion Wine is the perfect summer read.

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