The Book Of Bro

When choosing books for young children it is important for parents, guardians and teachers to screen each book for quality and appropriateness. The book should be judged on a number of points. As a parent, for each book you read, you should be assessing whether or not the book is at the appropriate level for your child. Does the book meet your standards in terms of skill in encouraging language development, cognitive development, personality development, and social development.

The Gold Dust Letters, by Janet Taylor Lisle is most appropriate for children at an upper elementary level, from age ten to twelve. Angela writes a letter to her fairy god mother, and to her surprise, receives a response! The rolled up letter sprinkles gold dust every time it is opened, but no one can figure out where the gold dust comes from or where it goes. Throughout the story, she and her friends are determined to find out where “Pilaria” is from and how she delivers her letters. In the end, they determine that Pilaria is really Angela’s father.

This story is incredibly essential to a child’s personality and social development. Angela and her friends believe in magic and their beliefs encourage dreaming and creativity. Angela and her father do not have a close relationship, but the discovery that Pilaria is really Angela’s father helps to bring Angela closer to her father. The book encourages communication between parents and children and helps a child to understand that sometimes adults seem like they don’t understand when in reality they do remember what it is like to be a child.

The story is also introduces important themes, such as how to deal with problems at home and divorce. Throughout the story, Angela’s parents are having problems, and in the end we find out that they have separated and that her father has moved out. The value of friendship is introduced as Georgiana and Poco reaffirm their friendship to Angela while trying to console her.

I feel that this book presented strong ideas and important themes while being creative and imaginative at the same time. Not every somber theme has to have a somber explanation, and Janet Taylor Lisle proves that.

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