Blueberries for Sal is a classic children's picture book written and illustrated by Robert McCloskey in 1948.

[1] Blueberries for Sal was ranked number 13 among the "Top 100 Picture Books" in a 2009 survey published by School Library Journal.

What they don't realize is that a mother bear and her cub have also come to Blueberry Hill to eat berries for the winter.

The book uses a number of visual and verbal techniques to compare and contrast the bear and the human families.

Both families' pictures are similar in composition, but they head in opposite directions when they reach the blueberry patch.

The short simply consisted of shots of the original book's illustrations - colorized therein - and featured a musical score performed entirely by woodwind instruments.