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PreS-Gr 2 To ease the trauma of a trip to the vet with his injured cat, Andy asks his mother to tell him again about the time she fell and broke her arm. And while they wait to see the vet, three generations (Andy, his mother, aunt, and grandmother) relay the story of his mother's accident when she was a child. This is obviously a familiar family story ("And then did ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

The cat (and, as we'll see, an arm) may be broken, but the picture book itself is indisputably a whole, imaginatively conceived and emotionally satisfying. As Andy and his mother, grandmother, and aunt sit tensely in the vet's waiting room with their injured cat, Frank, Andy asks his mom to tell him a story: the one about "that time when you were running because you were late for school and you tripped on a little chunk of sidewalk that was sticking up because of a tree root and you fell and broke your arm." Perkins (Home Lovely, rev. 11/95; Clouds for Dinner, rev. 9/97) gets the telling of an oft-told family story just r...Log In or Sign Up to Read More