SuitabookPeace, bugs, and understanding
Gail Silver
- Reading
- Read together and pause to unpack Metta’s wishes in everyday language. Let your child decide whether the practice feels meaningful, rather than treating it as the only response to conflict.
- Themes
- Anger and sibling conflict: Lily is upset with Ruby at a picnic and pushes her; their father comforts Ruby. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Metta practice: A journal introduces Metta as wishing happiness, health, safety and loving kindness for oneself and people towards whom one has difficult feelings. The practice is explained through the journal; whether the story presents it as a recommendation or shows a particular effect is not established.
- Worth knowing
- The full handling of the sisters’ disagreement and its resolution is not clear.