Gloria's Way

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From Publishers Weekly
These easy-to-digest vignettes narrated by the affable and resourceful friend of Huey and Julian Bates (who each star in their own series of books) go down like comfort food. The volume offers swift, palpable solutions to a girl's everyday problems. Six self-contained chapters show how Gloria deals with frustrations over friends, school and her career-oriented parents. Toft's engaging chapter openers and full-page drawings cover the range of Gloria's many moods and her winning personality. While the book remains focused on the under-10 crowdAand the author captures the cadences of their conversation perfectlyAadults play an important role, too. The parents step in, without seeming intrusive, like guardian angels to smooth out life's little wrinkles. When an agitated parrot ruins the valentine Gloria made for her mother, for instance, patient Mr. Bates plants just enough ideas to help her start a new one. In answer to another, more serious matter, Gloria's mother offers sage advice when Gloria fears that Julian likes their new neighbor better than her. Cameron (The Secret Life of Amanda K. Woods) conveys the benefits of effort and high self-esteem while stressing the importance of mothers and fathers taking time out of their busy schedules to participate in their children's lives. Ages 6-9. (Mar.)
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From School Library Journal
Grade 2-4-This beginning chapter book features six stories about Gloria Jones, a friend of Julian and Huey Bates, who were first introduced in The Stories Julian Tells (Pantheon, 1981). In the first story, Gloria hangs the valentine she made for her mother on the front door and it blows away, landing at the bottom of a parrot's cage in a neighbor's yard. Mr. Bates comes to the child's rescue and helps her find material to make a new one. In another story, the friends help train Huey's dog. In the last story, Gloria's father helps her understand fractions and to see that all children and adults face obstacles or "rocks in the road." While some of the situations are improbable, especially Gloria's valentine blowing into the bottom of a giant parrot cage, and all of the parental figures are too good to be true, this book will find an audience with children who like reassuring stories. Fans of this series will not be disappointed.
Anne Parker, Milton Public Library, MA
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