![]() ![]() Some of these tie in nicely with the conversations Sunny has with another child she eventually meets, but many seem pointless interludes, designed to keep the template consistent, yet without enough to actually say. Two threads are told in alternating chapters, starting with Sunny’s arrival in Florida and being picked up by her grandfather (six pages), and the year leading up to the holiday with assorted incidents from school and home. Removing all these would reduce Sunny’s story to half the page count, and presumably cut into everyone’s percentages. A more accomplished storyteller could cover the content far more efficiently, dispensing with large areas of white space around the panels, panels that serve no real purpose, and scene-setting illustrations occupying a full page. ![]() While acknowledging Sunny’s story is aimed at young readers, the process of spelling everything out makes for very laboured books. His cartooning is simple and expressive, the individual panels ideally suited to the young audience, but they might not be as pleased with the consistent padding employed. Holm has long maintained a parallel career writing graphic novels illustrated by her brother Matthew. Very successful with novels aimed at young girls, Jennifer L. ![]() Disappointingly, in Vero Beach she’s two hours away from Disneyland and she seems the only child in the over 55’s community, a status requiring an identity pass. In 1976, ten year old Sunny is sent to Florida to spend a holiday with her grandfather. ![]()
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