Small Things Mended colors and survive

and survive

she became America's first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate

and billions of dollars hanging in the balance

From sleepy bats to dreaming ducks

" said his mother

Small Things Mended colors and survive***Staff Favorite! The healing power of community is tenderly expressed in this picture book for fans of A Sick Day for Amos McGhee and Last Stop on Market Street. "Kindly Cecil has a broken heart, but when the kids in his neighborhood start asking him to fix their valuables a music box, a watch, a stuffed elephant he gradually finds that he knows just how to do this mending. And in return, his circle of new friends offers the mending that his own