SuitabookHome in the Woods
Eliza Wheeler
- Reading
- Read together at an unhurried pace, pausing to notice how the changing seasons affect daily life. Let the child set the pace for talking about loss or hardship, then explore what home means to the family.
- Themes
- Making a home amid hardship: After their father dies, the family moves into a tar-paper shack and faces the work of maintaining it and finding enough food. The book presents competing or mixed signals about this.
- Worth knowing
- A parent may want to be ready to talk about the father's death and the family's struggle to get enough food; both are part of the story's circumstances.