The Wrong Thing: sometimes things that seem wrong are simply out of place

The Wrong Thing: sometimes things that seem wrong are simply out of place

Age guide: 4 to 12
With surrealist pictures and a slightly tense story, this is a charming picture book. Hurricane, the cat, follows the Wrong Thing through the house, trying to protect his family who are sleeping. Until he realises that the Wrong Thing is a Lost Thing.

The Wrong Thing just needed its own place and family.

This is one of my favourite stories about things that seem Wrong being simply out of place. Hurricane worries that 'the big ones would not see it. And the small ones might want to catch it'.

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leads to eye-opening, heartbreaking and yet ennobling thoughts

leads to eye-opening, heartbreaking and yet ennobling thoughts

in / chapter books but good for adults and young adults too
There are obvious Holocaust themes - and the ordinariness of a friendship between two small boys - all made clearer by the lack of flowery descriptions or moralising tones. There are no upper age limits for reading and absorbing this wonderful story.

 

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