I open the book.
Word-blindness.
The pages are white!
Is this really
a blank diary,
or just an ordinary
schoolbook
filled with frog-slippery
tricky letters
that know how to leap
and escape? --Fefa
The pages are white!
Is this really
a blank diary,
or just an ordinary
schoolbook
filled with frog-slippery
tricky letters
that know how to leap
and escape? --Fefa
THE WILD BOOK
By Margarita Engle
HMH Books for Young
Readers, 2014
BEAUTIFUL. HEARTFELT.
INSPIRING.
A mother’s love is a
powerful thing, and Fefa’s mother refuses the edict doctors proclaim. Dyslexia
will not cripple her child, and so she teaches Fefa to see the world in a
different light.
SUMMARY:
But her mother has an
idea. She gives Fefa a blank book filled with clean white pages. "Think of
it as a garden," she says. Soon Fefa starts to sprinkle words across the
pages of her wild book. She lets her words sprout like seedlings, shaky at
first, then growing stronger and surer with each new day. And when her family
is threatened, it is what Fefa has learned from her wild book that saves them.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Margarita
Engle is the Cuban-American author of verse books such as THE SURRENDER TREE
and DRUM DREAM GIRL. Her awards include
multiple Pura Belprès, a Newbery Honor, the NSK Neustadt Prize and International
Latino Book Awards and Honors. Margarita
served as the 2017-2019 Young People’s Poet Laureate. Visit her at www.margaritaengle.com.
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