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Simple words make a flawless story about resilience, hope, healing, and the eternal fitness of things. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) [A] gently flowing story...This heartwarming title from an acclaimed author is a solid choice for school and public libraries seeking new bibliotherapy titles for children on loss and grief. -- School Library Journal

[A] gently flowing story. This heartwarming title from an acclaimed author is a solid choice for school and public libraries seeking new bibliotherapy titles for children on loss and grief. -- School Library Journal Taut and resonant...MacLachlan masterfully mingles core themes in this slim volume: the power of words and song, memories and family, the mutually redemptive human-canine bond, and 'the eternal fitness of things.' -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Testifies to the resilience of life. Deeply moving and uplifting in unexpected ways. -- Booklist (starred review) Simple words make a flawless story about resilience, hope, healing, and the eternal fitness of things. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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Patricia MacLachlan is the celebrated author of many timeless books for young readers, including Sarah, Plain and Tall, winner of the Newbery Medal. Her novels for young readers include Arthur, For the Very First Time; The Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt; Skylark; Caleb's Story; More Perfect than the Moon; Grandfather's Dance; and Word After Word After Word. She is also the author of many much-loved picture books, including Three Names; All the Places to Love; What You Know First; Painting the Wind; Bittle; Who Loves Me?; Once I Ate a Pie; I Didn't Do It; and Before You Came, several of which she cowrote with her daughter, Emily. Imani Parks is a voice talent and Earphones Award-winning narrator.

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