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MELANIE AND THE MAGIC BUBBLE
Docksteader, Mary Houghton
Reviewed by Adele M. Fasick
Volume 22 Number 1
Melanie was bored with her toys, bored with her kitten Ginger, and bored with her suburban yard. When her neighbour, Mrs. Huggins, gives her a bottle of special bubbles, Melanie immediately begins blowing bubbles. A huge bubble forms, enc losing Melanie inside. As the bubble floats over the houses and yards Melanie realizes how beautiful and exciting the world really is. She returns to her house and her mother, but has the memory of Mrs. Huggins and her magic bubble to sustain her when-ever she begins to feel "mumfy." This gentle book will appeal to some children, although the message is a familiar one. The book is well de signed and the illustrations are attractive. Melanie and her cookie-baking mother look as though they stepped out of the 1950s, but the old-fashioned look is appealing. Not an essential purchase but a good extra. Adele M. Fasick is a professor in the Faculty of Library and Information Science at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario
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