Jean's review
Way Down Deep by Ruth White
This book has an old-fashioned feel to it. It harkens back to a time when people knew their neighbors, helped each other out, and tried to make life pleasant for everyone. Ruby comes to Down Deep as a toddler with a mystery. No one knows where she came from but the whole town welcomes her. But no one welcomes her more than Miss Arbutus Ward, a lonely spinster who runs the boardinghouse. And Ruby grows up happy and loved.
I liked the touch of magical realism here. It gives a book that seems so firmly planted in every day reality a notion that anything can happen, any time, any place, and to any one - even the most timid among us.
This would be a good classroom read aloud, or a book discussion book. Very sweet book.
I liked the touch of magical realism here. It gives a book that seems so firmly planted in every day reality a notion that anything can happen, any time, any place, and to any one - even the most timid among us.
This would be a good classroom read aloud, or a book discussion book. Very sweet book.
