The Wild Book
The Wild Book by Margarita Engle, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on January 7, 2014, is a reprint edition consisting of 133 pages. This work follows Fefa, a young girl grappling with word blindness, or dyslexia, as she struggles to read and write. Despite the doctor’s discouraging prognosis, Fefa’s journey begins when her mother gifts her a blank book, encouraging her to view it as a garden where she can cultivate her thoughts and words.
Readers will find that Fefa’s experience unfolds through stories in verse, illustrating her challenges and triumphs as she learns to express herself. The narrative explores themes of disabilities and special needs, as well as the rich cultural backdrop of the Caribbean and Latin America. As Fefa’s confidence grows, so does her ability to use her wild book to confront and navigate the difficulties her family faces, ultimately showcasing the transformative power of creativity and self-expression.
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Fefa struggles with words. She has word blindness, or dyslexia, and the doctor says she will never read or write. Every time she tries, the letters jumble and spill off the page, leaping away like bullfrogs. How will she ever understand them?
But her mother has an idea. She gives Fefa a blank book filled with clean white pages. Think of it as a garden, she says. Soon Fefa starts to sprinkle words across the pages of her wild book. She lets her words sprout like seedlings, shaky at first, then growing stronger and surer with each new day. And when her family is threatened, it is what Fefa has learned from her wild book that saves them.
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