BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3) - OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
When a little girl's brother tells her the future is doomed, she gets a different perspective from her grandmother. The future will be full of good things and bad things, and she has lots of choices, not just one or two. The future is full of possibilities.
I tend to be a worrier, and can see the benefit of reading this book with a kid who also worries. I didn't love that so many of her future possibilities were "fantastic" rather than likely; her bully might be abducted by aliens, she can ban foods she doesn't like when she grows up, oh, and that there's an option other than her grandma dying - like living for 300 years or waking up as a teddy bear. While the ideas were sound, the expressions of examples were too far fetched.
Lisa Librarian
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