One Morning in Maine

Plot

The book gives a small slice of everyday life in Maine, where McCloskey and his family moved following World War II. Sal (also the heroine of McCloskey's Blueberries for Sal ) finds she has a loose tooth and worries that she won't be able to go sailing with her father. She goes digging for clams and the tooth falls out. Eventually she gets an ice cream.

Location

The action in the book takes place at the McCloskeys' summer home on Scott Island off of Little Deer Isle, and in South Brooksville on Bucks Harbor, where the buildings housing the garage and store depicted in the book can still be seen.