Firefly Hollow

Miriam,

I read this book to the kids and the boys even got it! This one might be great for your girls as well. It's a book about a firefly who lives in a community of fireflies who live in fear! They teach the young fireflies to fear humans and fear the unknown. The author actually named the main characters "Firefly" and "Cricket" so it makes things a lot easier to understand for the kids. Firefly decides she wants to leave the tree of safety and venture out to see where a mysterious song is coming from. She meets a friend from the cricket community and they become friends. Both friends are excited about getting close to humans, in particular one particular kid. They succeed in their quest but meet plenty of challenges a long the way. The boy which they befriend also has experienced heartache and the friendship is much needed for the child as well.

The end of the book is pretty good but I wouldn't put it on my list of best endings. My favorite aspects of the book is that it's simple and easy to understand, even for B and M. Each night of reading there would be new things that happened in the story. It moved quickly.

The kids asked about when Firefly loses a firefly close to her. They were sad but the story talks about how he is up in the stars glowing. It was a loss in the story but the author provided a way to deal with the loss as part of the story. We also talked about how friendships also pop up in ways we least expect them.

Good easy read, would recommend for a cute story to read to the girls, especially in the summer time because that is when the story takes place.

I'm lucky I live where there are fireflies, wish you did too!

Talk soon,
Hannah

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