Houghton Mifflin, 2007, $16.00
0618631542
Age/Grade Level: Primary
Age/Grade Level: Primary
Rating: Marginal
A very preachy story about taking steps to break out of a very safe, uninspiring existence. Short directives are left posted on a pink refrigerator at the junkyard, and they somehow pull Dodsworth into the world of creative expression and possibility. Sophisticated message, with very little fun or imagination used to let the story be enjoyed on more than one level. Not something a child would pull down off the shelf to read a second time unless he had an affection for pink refrigerators.
Reviewer: Cathy Gillette, Orange County Public Library/La Habra branch
