“When Stella was very, very small, she thought she was a turtle. Then she thought she was a goldfish… But being a dog was even better.”
Can this be the eighth book about Stella, and her brother Sam? I can hardly believe it to be so! She remains gutsy, with her red hair, her love of life and her zany humor. Marie-Louise Gay has created the wonderful watercolor illustrations that make Stella so endearing and special. She seems every child in so many ways while remaining her own very spectacular self.
Sam knows his sister to be an authority on everything, understanding the world and its ways while loving it all. She joyfully lets Sam know what she thinks he should. In this book, she remembers what it was like to be very, very small, using her senses to discover that world. She recalls that she loved to imagine herself as a variety of animals...first a turtle, then a goldfish and finally, a dog. Although she couldn’t tie her shoes, and saw words as ants running off the page, she could see the whole world from the top of the couch, and could race her ducks in her huge bathtub. There is so much to appreciate if given the right circumstances in life. As she grows, she experiences things in a different way...now she feeds the goldfish, carries the dog and uses those tiny ants to make words that she can read to Sam.
It is such a delight to watch Stella grow in the brightly colored and detailed artwork, which will have anyone who shares her story looking for more and more. There is much to appreciate in this lovely new book.
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