Happy Little Family (Fairchild Family Story)

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Genre: Readers - Beginner; Juvenile Nonfiction; Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction; Children: Grades 2-3; Juvenile Nonfiction / Religion / Bible / General; Religion - Biblical Studies; Religion - Bible - General;

Average Review: 4.5 stars

Review: Happy Little Family : ISBN 044040164X - This book seems to me to suffer from a split personality. Outside, it's a mid-sized paperback like all others for the pre-teen set. On the back, it says ages 8-12 and it's 116 pages long. Open it up and you'll find that the font is a little larger than the average book for this age set. The language is somewhat simpler and the chapters are more a series of individual stories, rather than a flowing chapter book. Bonnie is little. Not just little, but the littlest, and in a family with five children being little is sometimes hard. Everyone else gets to skate, but Bonnie is left behind because it's so cold. Debbie and Emmy get real hats, but Bonnie gets a sunbonnet. All the children have arrowhead collections, but Bonnie hasn't ever found even one. And when Bonnie asserts her independence, demanding to take a different route to a friend's house than everyone else, things don't go as smoothly as she hoped. A very cute series of stories with nice illustrations by Decie Merwin, Happy Little Family would impress me more if each story had been a separate book and had been marketed as read-aloud books to the 4-8 age group that it's more appropriate to. Still, nicely done stories worth picking up even 60 years later.