“In Summer North Coming, Dorothy Bentley’s spare, poetic text and Jessica Bartram’s rich watercolor and gauche illustrations transport young readers to a portion of the country that most of them will have never experienced personally – Canada’s North...The summer pages are filled with lush greens punctuated by the colours of various flowers, birds and insects before giving way to fall’s more muted palette. Colourwise, Winter North is a contrast of crisp dark nights and day’s snow-blinding whiteness that are both eventually conquered by the warmth oranges of the sun’s spring return...In terms of both its text and illustrations, Summer North Coming is definitely a book to return to and linger over. Bentley’s words are rich in their sparseness, and Bartram’s illustrations are full of details to be discovered during subsequent readings.”