Featured Staff Pick: The Sorely Trying Day

The Sorely Trying Day
By Lillian and Russell Hoban

This dear and charming book, like all great children's literature, is both playfully hilarious and secretly profound. Read it to a small child and giggle at all the trouble the mouse, cat, dog, and variously sized children get into, while enjoying Hoban's wonderfully old fashioned illustrations. Then close it and ponder this pint-sized meditation on culpability, accountability, honesty, and sacrifice. Because everyone has a Sorely Trying Day every once in a while... (picked by Jessica)

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