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REVIEW of The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks #1), by Jeanne Birdsall

The Penderwicks consist of one father, four sisters, and a dog named Hound. Rosalind is the eldest, just starting to daydream about romance. Skye is the blue-eyed one, full of spunk and sass. Jane is the third sister, an aspiring author with many a rhetorical flourish. And four-year-old Batty is the youngest, with a pair…