Green Town

DANDELION WINE
Original story illustration for “Summer in the Air” by Amos Sewell from THE SATURDAY EVENING POST, Feb, 18, 1956

Ray Bradbury remembers being born.  I am grateful that he recorded so many of his memories and imaginations from our favorite back-east town.

 

... I took a long look at the green apple trees and the old house I was born in and the house next door where lived my grandparents, and all the lawns of the summer I grew up in ...

"Just This Side of Byzantium"
introduction to Dandelion Wine

Dandelion wine field

Dandelion Wine

Dandelion Wine begins Ray Bradbury’s youthful adventures.  In this book, we follow young Ray as he discovers writing in an effort to record so many of the innocent wonders of one fateful summer far away and long ago.

The summer of ’28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma’s belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding—remembered forever by the incomparable Ray Bradbury.  (William Morrow, Amazon.com)

Ray Bradbury’s moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. 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.

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. 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. It is yesteryear and tomorrow blended into an unforgettable always. 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. 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.

Come and savor Ray Bradbury’s priceless distillation of all that is eternal about boyhood and summer. (Avon Books, Amazon.com)

The summer of ’28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma’s belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding—remembered forever by the incomparable Ray Bradbury. (Bantom Books, Amazon.com)

[Dandelion Wine should be banned from all schools.  I don’t really mean that, but too often I meet people who don’t like Ray Bradbury’s writings because they felt the book or stories were forced upon them.  I wish that everyone might have the opportunity to discover this incredible feel-good summer vacation for themselves, that they might enjoy it every summer thereafter and forever.]

Summer Morning, Summer Night

Summer Morning, Summer Night continues the young adventures and wonder of Ray Bradbury (known here as Douglas Spaulding) that began with Dandelion Wine.

Green Town, Illinois stands at the very heart of Ray Bradbury Country. A lovingly re-imagined version of the author’s native Waukegan, it has served as the setting for such modern classics as Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Farewell Summer . In Summer Morning, Summer Night, Bradbury returns to this signature locale with a generous new collection of twenty-seven stories and vignettes, seventeen of which have never been published before. Together, they illuminate some of Green Town’s previously hidden corners, and reaffirm Bradbury’s position as the undisputed master of a unique fictional universe.

In the course of this volume, readers will encounter a gallery of characters brought vividly to life by that indefinable Bradbury magic. Included among them are a pair of elderly sisters whose love potion carries an unexpected consequence; a lonely teacher who discovers love on Green Town’s nocturnal streets; a ten-year-old girl who literally unearths the intended victim of a vicious crime; and an aging man who recreates his past with the aid of a loaf of pumpernickel bread.

Each of these stories is engaging, evocative, and deeply felt. Each reflects the characteristic virtues that have always marked the best of Bradbury’s fiction: optimism, unabashed nostalgia, openness to experience, and, most centrally, an abiding generosity of spirit. Summer Morning, Summer Night is both an unexpected gift and a treasure trove of Story. Its people, places, images, and events will linger in the reader’s mind for many years to come. (SubterraneanAmazon.com)

[While I enjoyed the third and final book in the Dandelion Wine Collection, Farewell Summer (which was described as “the eagerly anticipated sequel to Dandelion Wine“), I was so glad when Summer Morning, Summer Night was released to the general public.  Filled with previously published and never-before-seen stories and vignettes from that wonderful summer so long ago and so far away, this book was a grand sigh of relief and tear of joy … long anticipated after I learned of how very many pieces had been removed from the original Dandelion due to space constraints.  Beautiful!  This is not one book to be missed!]

Farewell Summer

Farewell Summer ends this summer of innocence with  this epilogue.

In the deceiving warmth of earliest October, civil war has come to Green Town, Illinois, an age-old conflict pitting the young against the elderly for control of the clock that ticks their lives ever forward. The graying forces of school board despot Mr. Calvin C. Quartermain have declared total war on thirteen-year-old Douglas Spaulding and his downy-cheeked cohorts. The boys, in turn, plan and execute daring campaigns, matching old Quartermain’s experience and cunning with their youthful enthusiasm and devil-may-care determination to hold on forever to childhood’s summer. Yet time must ultimately be the victor, as life waits in ambush to assail young Spaulding with its powerful mysteries—the irresistible ascent of manhood, the sweet surrender of a first kiss . . . (Harper, Amazon.com)

 

One of the most acclaimed and beloved of American storytellers, Ray Bradbury has come home, revisiting the verdant landscape of one of his most adored works, Dandelion Wine. More than fifty years in the making, the long-awaited sequel, Farewell Summer, is a treasure—beautiful, poignant, wistful, hilarious, sad, evocative, profound, and unforgettable . . . and proof positive that the flame of wonder still burns brightly within the irrepressible imagination of the incomparable Bradbury. (William Morrow, Amazon.com)

[While the aptly titled Farewell Summer is not my favorite of the three Dandelion Wine collections, it was what I call an appreciated epilogue.]

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Something Wicked This Way Comes follows Ray Bradbury (under the guise of Will Halloway–and maybe even his friend, Jim Nightshade) as adventures turn dark.

Summer has ended.

School has begun and gained its pace.  Halloween is not too far off, or as this novel tells us: “One year, Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight.”

“And (this) was the October week when (Ray) grew up overnight, and (was) never so young anymore …”

Few American novels written this century have endured in th heart and mind as has this one–Ray Bradbury’s incomparable masterwork of the dark fantastic. A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope’s shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. And two inquisitive boys standing precariously on the brink of adulthood will soon discover the secret of the satanic raree-show’s smoke, mazes, and mirrors, as they learn all too well the heavy cost of wishes — and the stuff of nightmare. (Harper Voyager, Amazon.com).

Cooger and Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show howls into Green Town, Illinois, at three in the morning a week before Halloween. Under its carnival tents is a mirror maze that steals wishes; a carousel that promises eternal life, in exchange for your soul; the Dust Witch, who unerringly foresees your death; and Mr. Dark, the Illustrated Man, who has lived for centuries off the misery of others. Only two boys, Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade, recognize the dark magic at work and have a plan to stop this ancient evil—that is, if it doesn’t kill them first. 
 
Something Wicked This Way Comes is Ray Bradbury’s incomparable work of dark fantasy, and the gifted illustrator Ron Wimberly has stunningly captured its sinister magic in gorgeously realized black-and-white art. Complete with an original introduction by Bradbury, Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes: The Authorized Adaptation reintroduces this thrilling classic. (Hill and Wang, Amazon.com).

The Halloween Tree

Halloween night has come at last!  Across Green Town’s ominous ravine, a house awaits, a haunt, a trick, a treat, and the soul of a friend on the run from death through time itself.  And what a world-spanning wonder it will be for Ray (as Tom Skelton).

In The Halloween Tree, master of fantasy Ray Bradbury takes readers on a riveting trip though space and time to discover the true origins of Halloween.

Originally published in 1972, this striking new hardcover edition features dramatic illustrations throughout by Gris Grimly, giving a new generation of readers a chance to discover the magic. (Knopf Books for Young Readers, Amazon.com).

A fast-moving, eerie…tale set on Halloween night. Eight costumed boys running to meet their friend Pipkin at the haunted house outside town encounter instead the huge and cadaverous Mr. Moundshroud. As Pipkin scrambles to join them, he is swept away by a dark Something, and Moundshroud leads the boys on the tail of a kite through time and space to search the past for their friend and the meaning of Halloween. After witnessing a funeral procession in ancient Egypt, cavemen discovering fire, Druid rites, the persecution of witches in the Dark Ages, and the gargoyles of Notre Dame, they catch up with the elusive Pipkin in the catacombs of Mexico, where each boy gives one year from the end of his life to save Pipkin’s. Enhanced by appropriately haunting black-and-white drawings. (Booklist, Amazon.com)

Sit on the edge of your seat and enjoy master storyteller Ray Bradbury’s classic adventure of four youths who try to save the spirit of their friend Pip from the ghosts of Halloween past. The four encounter a mysterious character, Moundshroud who takes them on a magical journey that sweeps them back as far as 4,000 years and touches down in exotic places all over the world like Egypt, England, France and Mexico. Along the way they discover the magic and meaning of Halloween – and friendship. This enchanting adventure features the voice talents of Leonard Nimoy as Moundshroud and the animation wizardry of Hanna-Barbera. It’s a story as timeless as Halloween itself – a bubbling cauldron of thrills and suspense that will stir the imagination of the entire family. Bradbury’s popular story is destined to become a perennial Halloween favorite. (Warner Archive, Amazon.com)

When the film version came out, Ray Bradbury said the animated movie was the best big-screen adaptation that had yet been made of his work.  That’s debatable, but both the movie and the book are fabulous.  I prefer to read Ray’s words, and these are magical!  One last grand hurrah in novel form before leaving Green Town, Illinois for even greater magic in the dusk-filled West.

Yellow Fields photo by Alexander Steimle

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