Melinda looks forward to the letters and cards she receives from her favorite neighbor who has moved into a nursing home, and when the old woman dies, it takes Melinda a while to find a way to stop missing her so much
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Kindergarten-Grade 2?Every Monday afternoon Melinda, a chubby-faced five-year-old, receives a special package in the mail from her former neighbor who is now in a nursing home. Then one Monday Melinda learns from her mother that Mrs. Wilcox has died, and those words "...stung much deeper than the bee sting she got last summer." Curiously, neither the child's mother nor her kindergarten teacher prove to be any help in easing her grief. However, with inspiration from her wishing-star necklace, a birthday gift from Mrs. Wilcox, Melinda comes up with her own therapeutic solution?sending a letter to another woman in the nursing home. The writing is banal, the imagery is trite, and the story will not prove useful to adults who wish to explain death to children. In addition, the full-color artwork is ordinary at best, and the elderly woman's young and beautiful hands are out of keeping with her age. Not a necessary purchase.?Susan Pine, New York Public Library
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- PublisherEerdmans Pub Co
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0802851118
- ISBN 13 9780802851116
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages32
- IllustratorJones Jan Naimo
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