You'll read my favorite paragraph on page 46. Here Polly (who lives with her family on a magical rhubarb farm) has just entered the library with her Aunt. Aunt Edith has shared with her an incredible room filled with books, and she says this to Polly:
"I'm jealous...To be able to read these books for the first time? What better cause for jealousy? You have hours of joy ahead of you. But at least I have the honor of bringing these treasures to you. That's something."
Is there any librarian who wouldn't feel the same way?
Then later in the book Aunt Edith gives Polly more wonderful words of advice - about feeling good when you've achieved something:
"There's a feeling you get when you achieve something all by yourself that will bring you more peace and contentment than anything money or love can provide. Men or women, it's all the same. It is that moment when you can look around and say 'I did it' - and know no one can take it away from you. You don't need to brag about it, you don't need to try to get credit for it, because it is you, who you are, who you are meant to be."
Drizzle is a marvelous book - with one of the greatest endings any fantasy could ever hope to have! It is filled with likeable characters, incredible insects, amazing plants, and a farm that can make your dreams come true!!
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