Hazel and the Snails

Description

Six-year-old Hazel tends her colony of shoebox snails while observing, with varying degrees of understanding, her fathers illness and final decline. Impending loss forms the heart of this story, but its charming and funny, too. Richly rewarding and cleverly layered, adults will be as drawn to it as children. Nan Blanchards assured eye is a rare quality in a new writer; seldom has the world of a young child been so delicately or acutely observed. Hazel and the Snails takes you straight to the heart of childhoods mysteries and delights.