Every Monday in the Mailbox - Hardcover

Kindergarten-Grade 2?Every Monday afternoon Melinda, a chubby-faced five-year-old, receives a special package in the mail from her former neighbor who is now in a nursing home. Then one Monday Melinda learns from her mother that Mrs. Wilcox has died, and those words "...stung much deeper than the bee sting she got last summer." Curiously, neither the child's mother nor her kindergarten teacher prove to be any help in easing her grief. However, with inspiration from her wishing-star necklace, a birthday gift from Mrs. Wilcox, Melinda comes up with her own therapeutic solution?sending a letter to another woman in the nursing home. The writing is banal, the imagery is trite, and the story will not prove useful to adults who wish to explain death to children. In addition, the full-color artwork is ordinary at best, and the elderly woman's young and beautiful hands are out of keeping with her age. Not a necessary purchase.?Susan Pine, New York Public Library
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