When the Stammer Came to stayable suites

Maggie OFarrell born 1972 Coleraine Northern Ireland is a British author of contemporary fiction who features in Waterstones 25 Authors for the Future It is possible to identify several common themes in her novels the relationship between sisters is one another is loss and the psychological impact of those losses on the lives of her characters Maggie O Farrell born 1972 Coleraine Northern Ireland is a British author of contemporary fiction who features in Waterstones 25 Authors for the Future It is possible to identify several common themes in her novels the relationship between sisters is one another is loss and the psychological impact of those losses on the lives of her characters site_link The author of Hamnet explores sisterly affection and what it means to rediscover your voice and yourself in this illustrated storybook This is the tale of two sisters . When the stammer came to stayhome meaning who had no idea that everything was about to change Quiet Bea keeps her shoes polished folds her clothes every night and alphabetizes her books Her rambunctious sister Min wears torn trousers and wades into ponds to collect frogspawn Above all Min is a storyteller who loves to chat with everyone But one day she chokes and the words forming in her mouth never make it out Words suddenly feel dangerous unwieldly Min is no longer herself not with some strange creature stealing her words a creature not even her sister can see But that doesn t matter because Bea sees Min Award winning author Maggie O Farrell pulls from her own experiences with stammering to create a realistic portrait of shaken self confidence and how sharing painful situations with a loved one can make all the difference Featuring expressive and detailed illustrations from Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini this book will speak to readers who have ever lost a part of themselves and found something new in return When the Stammer Came to Stay This is a tale of two sisters who had no idea that everything was about to change Bea was a child who liked to keep herself neat and tidy and she would fold her clothes each night She liked everything kept neat and tidy and she wanted everything to smell clean and fresh but the thing she enjoyed most of all was arranging her books in alphabetical order Min on the other hand was a very different child from her sister She could have cared less about keeping things neat and tidy Her pants were torn at her knees one of her favourite things to do was to wade in the frog pond but her most favourite thing was to talk Her sister Min was a bit of a wild child who loved to talk about pretty much anything and everything Bea had her routine which she enjoyed but she was much better with listening than she was with talking Which suited both just fine. Kindle when the stammer came to stay in the house When people would comment on how different they were they didn t care they already knew how much they cared for each other After all they were sisters although their room was divided by a roll of tape which of course was Bea s doing One night the family and some lodgers were gathered together playing a game and their mother s turn was next and Min who was ready to continue sharing her story with her mother could only manage to get out S S s s. Ebook when the stammer came to stay at home That night Min couldn t sleep trying to find a way to make another sound She hoped that when morning came all would be well but it wasn t No one seemed to notice until a friend asked her why she was being so quiet and she tried to answer but what came out of her mouth weren t so much words as noise so she ran and hid She was washing her hands when she looked in the mirror and saw a strange shape hovering over her Sure that whatever it was this shape shifting creature was responsible for her lack of speech Min tried to tell her to leave her alone but there was no response The creature remained Bea takes her to the library because obviously a library has all the answers It s there that she realizes that she isn t alone A story with charm of sisterhood and an ode to libraries and the librarians: EBook When the Stammer Came to staybridge Pub Date 10 Dec 2024Many thanks for the ARC provided by Candlewick Press Walker Books US Literature Fiction