I liked this a lot. I don't always like prequels. Sometimes they make me impatient--just get to the thing I know happens!--or they contradict my impressions of the past (sometimes impressions I didn't even realize I had). This one did a little of the second, as we'd never heard of Caddy's friends...
Frances Hodgson Burnett's 'A Little Princess' was one of my favourite books when I was around the age of 10, and I read it endlessly. I was very surprised to discover this sequel by a modern children's author at the library, and couldn't resist picking it up. Rather than focusing on what Sara did...
Imagine that you have found a duck egg. You are at school, you've made a nest out of soft hats, and you are hiding it under your sweater. Imagine that egg hatches and the duckling starts to cry. What would you do? In Hilary Mckay's book, "Lulu and the Duck in the Park", this very situation oc...