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Reviewed by Emily-Jane Hills Orford for Readers' Favorite
Do you know what and whom you love? Have you ever made a list or marked the people and things you loved with a sticker heart? In the first story of Sophia A. Ritter’s Stories About What’s Important In Life, young Emma learns about the many kinds of love and which love is stronger than others. Her brother, Oscar, has some lessons to learn about love. Stuck indoors on a rainy day, he and the dog, Bubba, plow through the house wreaking havoc and disaster everywhere, from Emma’s diorama that she created herself, to the stack of neatly folded blankets and the clean floor that Mom had worked so hard on. Finally, Mom has to point out to Oscar that all he did was destroy the pleasure of those he loved. Can he make things right with his mom and his sister? After all, being remorseful and apologetic is another way of demonstrating one’s love.
Sophia A. Ritter’s middle-grade book, Stories About What’s Important In Life, is full of valuable lessons for young readers, all centered around the theme of love. There are ten stories in this book and each one addresses issues and challenges that will definitely be familiar. The stories are told in simple language to help young readers with their reading skills and the author uses a lot of believable dialogue to help move the stories along and to further develop the characters and the theme relevant to each chapter. There are some illustrations, too, charming black and white sketches that add another dimension to the plots. This is a great book to teach readers of all ages some very important life skills.
