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Average rating2.7
Anna, the daughter of migrant farm workers, sometimes feels like a bird, flying north in the spring and south in the fall, sometimes like a jackrabbit in an abandoned burrow. But above all Anna wonders what it would be like to be a tree rooted deeply in the earth, watching the seasons come and go, instead of being like a "feather in the wind."
Anna, the child of Mennonites from Mexico who travel to harvest fruit and vegetables, compares herself to animals that share some of her behaviors and wonders what it would be like to be a tree with deep roots instead of a feather in the wind.
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What a romanticization of poverty and of the suffering of kids who grow up without enough food, schooling, clothes and blankets to keep them warm, or a stable place to grow roots. And I am not going to start with how creepy the illustrations are... Also, it is an appropriation of the story of Mennonites by a complete outsider.
Read and reviewed: 2018-10-22