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I Like Where I Am
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons (2004-03-30)
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Amazon Description
This boy has trouble. The movers are here and they're loading the truck without a care for his feelings.
’Cause I like my room and I like my school, And we live real close to a swimming pool, And my best friend lives around the block. Why move to a place called Little Rock Anyway?Any child who has ever had to move will relate to the feelings of loss and also rejoice in the boy's newfound pleasures when he gets to his new neighborhood.
One Potato Review
Nothing fancy here: Big Trouble is represented by trucks pulling up out of nowhere and “REALLY big men! Eight feet tall, or nine or ten.” Then boxing - of rocks, and baseball uniforms, and Spy Stuff, and Secret Stuff and all the stuff that defines Home. Wherever that is. Karas has visited this subject before (in Home on the Bayou: A Cowboy’s Story) and his illustrations convey the scale - and helplessness - of someone very small confronting the facts of relocation in a big, and usually welcoming, world.
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