Small Things Mended poetry and a child is ready

and a child is ready to captain the ship

Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Each lavishly illustrated spread invites you into a different realm of the dead

"Whether they love the spotlight or prefer to be busy behind the scenes

Small Things Mended poetry and a child is ready***Staff Favorite! The healing power of community is tenderly expressed in this picture book for fans of A Sick Day for Amos McGhee and Last Stop on Market Street. "Kindly Cecil has a broken heart, but when the kids in his neighborhood start asking him to fix their valuables a music box, a watch, a stuffed elephant he gradually finds that he knows just how to do this mending. And in return, his circle of new friends offers the mending that his own