The Visit - Reeve Lindbergh

illustrator: Wendy Anderson Halperin
2005
Rating: 4
Endpapers: cream with photos-animals-food-flowers "sprinkled" around

Two sisters travel to the country for a visit with their Aunt Laura and Uncle Ted. Written in rhyming stanzas where first and fourth lines repeat:

Highway and country lane, dirt road and dust,
Beth watches leaves whirling up in a gust.
Jill sees a mailbox covered with rust.
Highway and country lane, dirt road and dust.

and

Maple tree, willow tree, poplar and pine.
Beth watches swallows, swooping to dine.
Jill finds a lost kite, tangled n twine.
Maple tree, willow tree, poplar and pine.

Illustrations: arched "window" to view 2/3 of page, four smaller rectangular illustrations below - lots to see - pencil, watercolor, lots of detail.