Review: A Enchanting Fantasy Tale
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 28, 2013
Everwud is a teaching, but not preaching book about Friendship, Honor, Love, and Respect.Joey is an orphan living in a small town during the time prior to cell phones. It is a period when you addressed your elders as mister and missus. He is not ill treated at the orphanage. He wears hand-me-down clothes, has a refurbished little red wagon that makes a delightful sound when he pulls it along the street, and he has friends and people who care about him.But, it is not until he is noticed by the local pet store owner, and his menagerie of animals, that Joey finds out how very special he really is.This is an enchanting fantasy story appropriate to read to a young child, or for a middle-schooler to read to themselves. It has enough action, excitement and adventure to keep any child interested and reading to the very last page.I hope that Ms. Dieckmann gives us many more of these little gems. I have no children, but she might spur me into finding some stray ones to read to.