SuitabookThe squirrel that remembered
Dana Saintsbury Green, Dana Saintsbury
- Reading
- Read together and pause to compare what Grandma remembers about England with what she has made of life in New York. Keep her advice open for discussion rather than treating it as the only answer.
- Themes
- Homesickness, belonging and choice: Grandma remembers leaving London and settling in New York; she sympathises with a homesick English girl and advises her about leaving the boy who walks with her. The story brings together attachment to a home and to a person, but the overview does not establish whether Grandma's advice is endorsed or challenged.
- Worth knowing
- Grandma gives firm advice about whether the girl should leave the boy she walks with. The overview does not say what the girl decides or how the advice is treated in the ending.