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| Where Are You Going Baby Lincoln? |
In the third installment in the Tales from Deckawoo Drive
series, Baby Lincoln is feeling stifled by her older sister Eugenia. Having been bossed around by the rule-bound
Eugenia all her life, Baby Lincoln decides she must go on a “necessary journey”,
although she does not know where.
Baby buys a train ticket to the only place she can afford
– Fluxom -- and embarks. On the train, she meets a series of people
who change her life. There’s a man in an
enormous fur hat who introduces Baby to the joy of comics, a form of literature
that Eugenia believes is a colossal waste of time. There’s Sheila Marsden, who shares her bag of
jellybeans and asks for Baby’s real name.
(Imagine – her real name is Lucille!)
And there’s little George, a young boy traveling alone. Baby tells him a story and earns a friend for
life.
Baby is learning that she doesn’t have to live life by
Eugenia’s rules, but she desperately misses her sister. Just as she starts to feel lonely, she arrives in Fluxom. To her surprise, Eugenia is
waiting for her! Reunited, they
return to Mercy Watson’s house for some toast with a great deal of butter on
it.
Playful, fun and heartwarming, this story is a great
read-aloud and perfect for new chapter book readers.
