Often, we are inside Frannie's head, listening to her thoughts and following as she makes connections and has realizations about the things in her world.Īt school and at home, Frannie has some serious issues to face. It's us we need to change." Dialogue in Woodson's book is indicated by italics and not the traditional punctuation, perhaps as a way to represent the sign language communications that go on in the book. When, at birth, doctors offer to try an experimental operation on Sean that might allow him to hear, his parents choose not to, believing that, " if that's the way he came into the world, that's the way he's staying. Besides Frannie, my favorite character is her older brother Sean, who was born deaf. Ms Johnson, Frannie's teacher and Frannie's mother are the two main adult characters in a story that is driven by the children. Like Polly Horvath, Woodson is a miniaturist, weaving tight, well crafted characters and ideas into less than 150 pages. Emily Dickinson's famous couplet, "Hope is the thing with feathers/that perches in the soul," lends the book its title and provides an overriding theme throughout the events of the book.
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