I have the sweetest book to tell you about. It’s called Wenda the Wacky Wiggler. It’s written by Christopher Aslan and illustrated by Emily Mullock.
Wenda is a very happy young girl who always seems to be dancing and moving around. Even when she sleeps at night some part of her body always seems to be wiggling. Much to the dismay of the grumpy people in town, Wenda was always happy and always moving. To her everything was a happy song, from a singing bird to the sounds heard around town.
The mean old mayor of the town insisted that Wenda stop wiggling but she wouldn’t. He finally removed every thing possible to create sounds to make Wenda dance and wiggle, including a poor little bird who was picked up by the animal warden.
Just when the people of the town though Wenda was finally going to stop dancing she got up and danced some more. They soon learned from Wenda that the music comes from within yourself. Kind of like “dancing to the tune of your own drummer” in a way.
This super cute story kind of reminds me of the holiday movie “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” where the mayor has all the toys removed from town because he accidentally tripped over one and broke his leg, but nothing he did prevented the children from experiencing the joy of getting toys from Santa (at least in a way it reminds me of that story).
This is a positive story that reminds us to look within ourselves and how we create our own joys and our own “music” from within and that you shouldn’t let others put you down just because they don’t agree with what you are doing. It reminds us to be true to ourselves and what makes us happy.
I LOVE the artwork! The images are very whimsical and the pages explode with lots and lots of colors.
This book is good for children ages 4-8.
You can learn more about this sweet book and learn more about the books in this series called the “Rainbow Collection” by visiting the publisher’s web site (http://www.benjaminbrownbooks.com/) or by clicking here. You can also view some of the pages by clicking here.
This super cute book is available online at places like Amazon, the publisher’s site and other online book retailers.
