Elizabeth Enright's Thimble Summer received the Newbery award for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children in the year of its publication. In her new book, The Sea Is All Around, she shows again her rare ability to put into words the sights and sounds of a little girl's world.

This time the setting is the little island of Pokenick, thirty miles off the New England coast. Mab's Aunt Belinda lived there and Mab came from Iowa to pay her an indefinite visit. It was wintertime and the days on the island were full of a new enchantment for Mab: the surf, the fog, the Northern lights, the moors; the cobblestoned village with its fanlights and widows' walks.

Miss Enright has again given us a beautifully told, vividly detailed story of an American girl.

From the dust jacket