SuitabookThe dragonfly club
Mari Ringness
- Reading
- Read together or check in afterwards about how the girls’ circumstances feel to your child. Let their questions guide whether to pause or talk further.
- Themes
- Friendship and belonging: Grace wants to join the other neighbourhood girls but struggles with what to say; she and Tillie become friends after meeting. The friendship is central, but how the story evaluates each girl’s choices or develops their relationship is not established.
- Foster care and change: Tillie has moved between foster homes and treats meeting new friends as an adventure and challenge. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- Loneliness and repeated changes in foster placement are part of Tillie’s circumstances. These could invite discussion; how much distress the story depicts is not clear.