Review: Fabulous children's story about a difficult time.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 2, 2012
This was a very interesting story. As the synopsis says it is written in free verse and is quite lyrical! I love the "feeling" that you get while reading, the almost lull of the words was similar in spirit to gentle waves brushing a shoreline.Although this is a very short read and does say children's, I would want to express that there are situations that younger children may find difficult. The story of Befana not being real for instance, war and death are some themes that although Thomas E. Antonaccio only touches on these things, they are in there.But with that being said this story was a very easy read. Very well done even with the years that you go through with Lucia. You see that her life is not all a can of peaches but they take the hard times and pick themselves back up and move on. It's very positive and I hope that book two of this will expand the story of the family even further. Quite interesting, fun read about a family. Just a family, but it's a great one.