Beautiful watercolor illustrations tell the story of young Dasha's year from the point when her mother decides to leave Russia to attend an advertising school in the U.S. Dasha stays in Russia with her grandparents and does a lot of growing up without her mom around. It's kind of sad and bitters...
Poor book, no one picks him up because he doesn’t look interesting. He was smart, he was strong and he wanted children to laugh at his stories but he just didn’t feel special. Then it happened, a girl finally picked him up and he thought yes, he “must be the girl’s favorite thing in the whole wide w...