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No Small Thing (Hardcover)

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Grade 5-8–For all those horse-crazy readers, this is a satisfying exploration of how the realities of owning an animal and the responsibility for its care and training affect a family that is already struggling to make ends meet. Nathaniel, 12, explains how he and his sisters, Cid, 14, and Queenie, 8, acquire a pony as a giveaway. Their mother is so laden with her own pain (the children's father has deserted the family) and her efforts to eke out a living that the kids leave her out of the loop on many of their decisions. The inevitable major battles as well as true caring among the siblings are equally present, as are peripheral adults both kind and mean who influence the plot. This is one of the best horse stories to come along in recent years, and one of the few with a male protagonist. In the end, the author makes it clear that losses and gains go together in life, but that one's own actions and choices matter most of all.–Carol A. Edwards, Douglas County Libraries, Castle Rock, CO
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Gr. 5-8. It is no small thing to care for those we love, as 12-year-old Nathaniel comes to understand in this innocent story, set in Canada in 1977. Nathaniel is one of three siblings who become the owners of a beautiful stallion named Smokey. Smokey is the bright spot in their lives, an antidote to having their world disrupted when their father walked out on them four years earlier. While their mother struggles to pay for food and rent, Nathaniel's paper route provides money for the pony's upkeep. Eight-year-old Queenie, who finds safety in "a secret place in her head," and tough, 10-year-old Cid help with Smokey's care. Then the children's hard-won happiness is threatened again--by a riding accident, a broken heart, and a barn fire. Nathaniel's voice sounds too mature and a touch didactic at times, but the pacing and characterizations are deftly accomplished. And readers will find much to like in the involving, gentle tale. Cindy Welch
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5.0étoiles sur 5 " No Small Thing :D ", Sep 14 2005
This review is from: No Small Thing (Paperback)
I loved this book becouse of the amazing detales it has. The author does an amazing job with the detales; like you are actually there watchig Smokey move. His trot, his mane and tail moving in the wind, his beauty when the snow falls on his back and eyelashes. My favorite part was when they went to get the Douglas. Just the way that the man went to get a tree and slamed it on the gorund and made a fresh cut on the trunk and tied it on to the sled behind Smokey. Just the way that she dicribes how Queenie tyed the acorns on his mane and tale, and how they moved when he sort of ... pranced down the road pulling Dougles behind him. I wish that I had a pony like him or even just a horse! I loved it! Absolutely loved it! It was fabulous!
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Beautiful and moving, Janv. 21 2004
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I found this a beautiful novel, moving, and true. And frankly, I quite disagree with Pat Barclay's suggestion that the characters aren't "easy to like"--which sounds, well...just so superficial and misleading. No, the book likely wouldn't speak to the Harry Potter crowd that requires gimmicks and gadgets. Rather, it's a very real story of the solace animals bring to struggling children. The dilemma of the three kids in the story is, I think, a very real one, sensitively portrayed. I do think, though, that this might be a book worth being read aloud to kids or for a certain niche of reader--sensitive older children who have strong feelings for and bonds with non-humans. As an adult, I found it a satisfying and intensely moving read--probably one of the best things I've read this year. The author has the time-period details just right as well as the deep bond between the three children and the pony. However, as the novel is not heavily plot-driven, the book may not appeal to those kids/adults who want page-turning action etc. I really can think of few other novels like this one, except perhaps, the old chestnut, Luke Baldwin's Vow, in which an orphaned boy bonds with an old and apparently "useless" dog.
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