![]() ![]() ![]() What’s Cindy’s story? The reader never finds out. She doesn’t live with her family but appears to be a group home, and works at a place called Hospice. ![]() She also has a different living arrangement than the nuclear family (something to keep in mind with Mother’s and Father’s Days around the corner). (adults look giant and go beyond the page) It’s a nice reminder of how the world looks through a child’s eyes.Ĭindy “looks” different. Some of the pages appear to be done from the perspective of a child. I really enjoy the illustrations in this book. More powerlessness happens when the adults knock on her bedroom door “the door opens. No adults even ask her if she has a plan! Cindy is powerless when the adults find out about the puppy and they tell her to “be reasonable.” Cindy comes up with the idea of keeping the puppy and has it all figured out because she’ll “take him to work with me” but the adults “drown her with their words.” The child’s voice is never heard. I kept thinking back to my children’s literature university classes and the idea of children being powerless in an adult world. Even Jan, who’s near the end of his life, feels joy when he holds the puppy. ![]() I think its message is that while we may look/act different/be in different stages of life, we still have feelings. This was my least favourite text of the three (The Red Tree and The Crazy Man), only because I felt the story was “flat,” but it is a heartbreaker. ![]()
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