"inanimate objects"

[Matthew]

After reading this book, does anyone else look at everyday objects in a different light? Perhaps that can of soup in the cabinet is actually being delayed on a journey somewhere.

[Sarah]

Oddly enough, yes! As kids (and even as adults) we become attached to certain things. Those things take a life of their own for us. Cars, stuffed animals, our stubborn-ass computers all are given a personality by us.

I remember when I was a little girl, my family had a spoon that was different from the other silverware. It had a beautiful flower pattern on the handle. I called it my China Spoon, and I refused to eat without it. Whne my parents later bought new flatware, they threw out my spoon. I was so brokenhearted. I can totally understand Ellen Cherry's attachment to her spoon. It was different, and it was hers.

[Lori]

Sarah, your comment about the spoon makes me laugh. We have such a spoon in our flatware drawer. My kids would all argue over who got to use it. I hid it for a while to stop the arguing and recently found it. They all take turns now. But it is still the fav.

[Jason]

It gets worse when you can actually hear inanimate objects talking to you...

[Anonymous-9]

Children personify inanimate objects all the time, calling stuffed animals by name and talking to cars and trucks and flowers as though they have a personality. Robbins takes me back to childhood when I believed everything could magically understand speech if you just talked to it, and I loved that about Skinny Legs and All. In fact. I love Robbins because above all writers I've read, he can transport me almost to another dimension. Who needs mood-altering drugs when you have Skinny Legs and All?