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Originally Posted by Amanda M
Y'all are going to think I'm nuts..
read The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews/Edwards. It really teaches you to look at the world around you. I read it when I was very young and it taught me to appreciate the world. And it has a really cute story to go with it.
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I don't think you're nuts at all. As a matter of fact, I'll add The Fire Cat by Esther Averill to my list. Who can forget the lessons learned from Pickles, the young homeless cat who knows he should be able to do big things (he has big paws, you know) but does not know how or what to do, so he takes his frustrations out by picking on smaller cats in the neighborhood. Well, one day he gets himself stuck up a tree while chasing a kitten and has to be rescued by the fire department. A kind lady stands up for him and tells the firemen that he isn't a bad cat and that given the chance he could do great things (oh the possibilities of those big paws!). The firemen decide to give him a chance, they adopt him and train him to be a fire cat, and soon, instead of chasing cats, he's rescuing them and at the end of the book, he earns his fire hat and a wonderful future of helping others. Now, if you ignore the whole insinuation that only those with big paws will do big things, this book gives hope that dreams can come true and a message that you should never judge a book by its cover (imagine if the firemen had decided poor Pickles was just a bad, no good cat and not taken him in).
Heidi
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Go Pickles!