You and I can now talk about it, and we’ll wait for the rest of the world to catch up. Have you already read and reread When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead? That is fine and dandy news. Have you already read When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead? Excellent. Have you not heard of When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead? Well now you have. So what I have to do here is convey to you just how this book is, pretty much, one of the best children’s books I have ever read. There is, quite frankly, a lot of stuff out there to like. If you’ve read any of my reviews before then you know that I like lots of stuff. I want to convey to you precisely what it is that I mean to say. I became intrigued by the idea of whether a loop like that was possible, and I became very interested in the idea of trying to create a puzzle.I’ve been struggling over how to begin this review. “I found it very moving that you could have a character with a secret mission to save someone. Stead, who imagined a story about someone who might be able to travel through time to save a life. “Sometimes when you’re in an open frame of mind, a story like that can suggest something completely different and impossible,” added Ms. But when the police circulated his picture, a woman came forward and said she was his fiancée, that they had no children, and that there had been no car accident.
The apartment in the book, she said, is modeled on her mother’s apartment, and Miranda’s school is very similar to Public School 75 on West End Avenue and 96th Street, which the author attended as a child.Īnother seed of the novel came from a newspaper article about a man who had lost his memory and then, while hypnotized, told the police his wife and two daughters had been in a car accident.
Stead, 42, who had a prior career as a public defender and has written one other novel for young readers, said she wanted to set “When You Reach Me” in the location and time of her own childhood in New York. Top and above, images from “The Lion & the Mouse,” a picture book with very few words other than animal sounds.
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