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Family Reunion Adventure Book

The document provides a summary of the children's book "The Relatives Came" by Cynthia Rylant. It describes how a large, boisterous family arrives at the home in a colorful station wagon, hugging and spending time together over the summer tending the garden, eating fruit, making music, and not wanting to leave. The book features scratchy, messy illustrations and won the 1986 Caldecott Medal.

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Family Reunion Adventure Book

The document provides a summary of the children's book "The Relatives Came" by Cynthia Rylant. It describes how a large, boisterous family arrives at the home in a colorful station wagon, hugging and spending time together over the summer tending the garden, eating fruit, making music, and not wanting to leave. The book features scratchy, messy illustrations and won the 1986 Caldecott Medal.

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The Relatives Came

Author: Cynthia Rylant

Illustrator: Stephen Gammell

Publisher/Date: Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books. 1985

Age range/class level:Grades 1-2

Awards: Caldecott Medal 1986

Illustrations & Design: Scratchy, messy crowds hatching


illustrations

Genre: Fiction, Children’s Literature

Theme(s): Boisterous, loving, and unity

Characters: The Family


Summary: The Relatives Came and showed up in a rainbow-
colored station wagon. When they arrived, they
hugged and hugged. The family members tended
the garden and ate up all the strawberries and
melons. They played instruments and spent a lot
of time together. All summer the family from
Virginia spent a lot of time with their family and
friends that they did not want to go home.

Textual Components:

• Water Color

• Pen and Ink Illustrations

Classroom Connections:

• Writing

• Art

• Family

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