Carousel

"The story makes it clear, with no more than a few hints, that the girls have lost their mother. The books imagery--winter gray, the empty playground, the broken horses and their angry destructiveness--carries the weight of the girls' feelings without every explicitly stating them....By avoiding the heavy-handed tactics of books that attempt therapy by addressing the issue of death and its consequences directly, Ms. Rosenberg creates a far more powerfully comforting vehicle.Rosenberg, Liz is the author of 'Carousel' with ISBN 9780152018870 and ISBN 0152018875.