If you’re looking for a clean middle-grade book that handles difficult topics like cancer and school troubles, then this book is perfect for you. The If you’re looking for a clean middle-grade book that handles difficult topics like cancer and school troubles, then this book is perfect for you. The unique approach this book takes in exploring how math isn’t all about just numbers but also about concepts and ideas were developed tastefully and tied in well the personal struggles the main character dealing with her mother’s cancer.
I would have liked to have seen more of Mika’s school life besides her math class, but the scenes and story development in California with Mika’s dad made up for it. Some of the book’s impact was a little lost on me, being a homeschooled high school senior, but I can definitely relate to Mika’s quiet but deep and very present fears and dislike of change. I went through that time period myself as a ten-year-old; I have to applaud the author for so realistically slipping into a ten-year old’s mindset. I love how Mika used her math journal as a way of processing everything and wasn’t resentful when her best friend made other friends and instead looked to develop and build other relationships with the girls in her class.
Well written, uniquely themed, and sweetly illustrated.
How much work does it take to plant a garden? Or to protect Findus’s beloved meatball “seed” from being trampled? Well, on the farm and in the countryHow much work does it take to plant a garden? Or to protect Findus’s beloved meatball “seed” from being trampled? Well, on the farm and in the countryside, the answer is a lot more then you can imagine.
I can relate a lot with this hilarious episode of keeping the animals out of the garden, wishing that more than just vegetable seeds could be planted and grown, and the lengths that it takes to fool animals into doing what you want them to.
Findus in this book is so comical and little kid-like in the way he interacts throughout the story, and I love famer Pettson’s confrontation with the chickens and the humorous illustrations that add so much to the story—the chickens sitting around in the coop drinking tea with curlers in their “hair.” (Also, I love how eager the chickens are so eager to exonerate themselves from being the ones guilty of ruining the garden!)
I am so in love with this droll and dear picture book series, and they just keep getting better and better....more
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