Book Review : Children's Picture Book - All Ages
Rules Are Rules
Written and Illustrated by Julie Scandora
What do you do when your heart bids you take one path but everyone else says take another? 9-year-old Maya faces this dilemma, and with help, she discovers that the answer is neither solely one nor the other but a unique combination of the best from each. The story begins with Maya in her forest. Weighted down with her problem of having to choose between two opposing options, at first she retreats to herself. Gradually the natural environment comforts her. Nature doesn't solve her problem, but it does relax her so that later she is open to see an unconventional third option.
Rules Are Rules presents serious messages, but it tells them joyously. Throughout, chickadees flit in and out, slipping in a little nature education, singing songs that only Maya understands, and keeping the tone light.
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Publishers Network, Bothell, WA; www.juliescandora.com; 32 page hardcover; $17.95 (May 2008) ISBN-10: 1887542647
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