[1984]
The farm animals try to divert a busy little spider from spinning her web, but she persists and produces a thing of both beauty and usefulness. T
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The very busy spider
Carle, Eric.
Eric Carle.
1984
The very busy spider
2023.
First edition.
When hospitalized for her clinical depression, Whimsy connects with a boy named Faerry, who also suffers from the traumatic loss of a sibling, an
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9781250780386
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We are all so good at smiling
Narrator (interlude) -- The wilting: Call me magic : call me (Whimsy) -- Hospital : the whimsy girl: Outside my hospital window ; Car (silver) like a broadsword ; Shadow-wings ; Things I know about fae ; Morning (bathroom) ritual ; Mom & Dad visit ; Reasons it's easier for Mom & Dad ; Break-fast ; The fae (Faerry) ; Group therapy ; Group therapy : tell us a secret ; My answer : cemetery of leaves ; Everyone (in therapy) is silent after my soliloquy ; Last week in the hospital -- Whimsy comes home: Back home on Marsh Creek Lane ; My old notebook stuffed with fairy tales ; The (haunting) forest ; Outside my house on Marsh Creek Lane : October 28 ; Faerry (still annoying) : on Marsh Creek Lane ; What (I think) Faerry does next ; Marsh Creek Lane (home) -- Fairy tales : Faerry tales: What's wrong with a monster? : Whimsy's fairy tale essay/poem ; I like my poem ; Doorbell rings : Faerry on my stoop again ; Faerry reads my poem ; Faerry's fairy tale essay/poem ; Good night, Faerry ; Locket ; Dinnertime chat ; Sleep, nightmare, wake, repeat -- Stone Ridge High School: Morning (October 29) ; Morning (October 29) outside my house ; High school ; Before AP English class (teacher chat) ; Things I hear my classmates say ; Things I hear Valda (the bully) say ; Inferno by Dante ; (Faerry) in my AP English class ; Teacher questions for new kid? ; Questions on the reading? ; Circles of Hell ; Faerry gathers his things too -- Runaway: We walk ; Car ride ; We keep driving ; Home ; Cole is missing? -- The forest with the garden: tConsequences at dinner ; After 10 p.m. there is a knock ; Things I did not tell the officer ; October 30 ; October 30 (midday) ; October 30 (nighttime) ; October 31 ; Evening: October 31 (of my 18th year) -- What I remember: Haunting forest ; Finding Cole ; This is what I remember ; The candy house ; Inside the candy house ; The clearing -- Pinky promise: The edge ; In haunting forest again ; Whimsy in sorrow's garden ; The house sorrow built ; Meeting sorrow again ; The only way ; Abandon all hope : in the garden sorrow built ; Enter here ; Hope sinks. --
The tears: Baba Yaga's house: (My sorrow garden) ; (When it rains ice) ; (Sorrow & memories) ; (Grandma's twin house in the garden) ; (Meeting Baba Yaga) ; (Outside Baba Yaga's house) -- Escaping sorrow (again): (Back at the start) ; (I deserve the garden) ; (Hooting & breaking) ; (Through the fire again) ; (Faerry grabs my hand) -- Anansi the spider's den: (The webs of Anansi) ; (Anansi cried) ; (Faerry & I discuss) ; (The answer) -- Mama Wata: (Catching magic) ; (Walking memories) ; (Fae wings) ; (What I see) ; (Back on the yellow brick road) ; (Mama Wata & the ocean in a globe) ; (Under the water of words, I hear them [the bullies] say) ; (Whimsy the mermaid) -- Don't eat the apple: (Apples of the sky) ; (Bruises) ; (Riddle) ; (Names of giant apples) -- Adze & the blood moon: (Amorphophallus titanum : corpse flower) ; (Never trust a firefly) ; (Hospital room) ; Clinical (major) depression ; (Forgiveness) ; (Faerry's story) ; (Forgiveness again) -- Voicelessness & the siren Ursula: (We stay cocooned) ; (Ursula : voice-taker) ; (Thanatosis) ; (Panic attacks feel like...) -- The griot with stories: (A griot) ; (Story one : what the children saw) ; (Falling again) ; (Story two : what the parents saw) ; (Story three : what actually happened) ; (Whimsy & Faerry scream) -- Faerry (tale) & Whimsy (Cole): (Bigger than bravery) ; (Tale & Cole) ; (We've been watching you) ; (Truth). --
The rebirth: Fairy tales in the secret garden: (Candy house : final time) ; (Explosion) ; (Fairy tales celebrate in the garden sorrow built) ; (To home we go) -- Happy endings : Whimsy & Faerry: (Whimsy & Faerry) -- Narrator (interlude) -- Fairy tales in this story -- Whimsy & Faerry's playlist --
McBride, Amber, author.
Shutterstock (Firm), illustrator.
Amber McBride.
2023
We are all so good at smiling
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