I read this book because I was looking through a box of postcards at a bookshop recently and there was one of the cover of this book. There was something about it that I liked, so I put it on hold at the library. It came in today and I picked it up and read it in one sitting. ( Well, it is a children's book after all!) it's hard to explain it so that it would sound like a book that you would want to read. It IS rather melancholy. I mean, the main character is an orphan with polio, and then her brother dies! But! Somehow her brother is able to continue to be there for her and their little brother when they need him the most. Finally... well I won't tell you in case you're the kind of grown-up that occasionally indulges in children's books. I'll just say that it turned out to be as good as I hoped it would be, though I would have liked it a little longer.
