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| Etta just knows this is the year she'll be brave enough to ride the Ferris wheel at the midway fair--she's even told her brother and sister. But when she tests herself on top of the chicken coop and finds she's too scared to move, she's suddenly not so sure--the sky is so vast, what's out there to catch her if she falls? But through love and support from a caring older sister and a wonderful combination of determination and imagination, Etta comes to discover she really is able to soar to new heightsjust as readers will when they cheer Etta on with each turn of the page! With a deceptively simple, timeless tale, Jennifer Richard Jacobson's debut on the Dial list is a spectacular one, while renowned artist Greg Shed's paintings literally illuminate the page. |
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| This nostalgic picture book harks back to a time when girls wore dresses to the carnival, yet it delivers an ageless message about overcoming fear. When the midway comes to her rural community, Etta is determined that this time she will ride the Ferris wheel with her older brother and sister. But her resolve ("This year I'll be brave") disintegrates when she reaches the top, and she is humiliated when the attendant interrupts the ride to let her off ("Can't be brave. Can't!"). Jacobson's evenly paced text transmutes the child's fear of the vast, empty sky through a poetic image: when Etta learns that constellations are formed from invisible lines that connect the stars, she takes an imaginative leap that, if she should tumble from the top of the Ferris wheel, the nearby stars will form a net to catch her. Shed's (Dandelions) sun-drenched and moonlit paintings depict the girls' cottony white dresses against the carnival's muted olives, mauves and rust, and the hazy light of still summer days and soft night breezes, slowing the narrative to a delicious drawl. Young readers conquering anxieties of their own will want to linger over this comforting drama. Ages 4-8.
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