Literary Lane

  Rating: Four out of Five Stars Such a nice and heartwarming little story. Lily has a bad stutter, and this story, although only really aimed at a middle-grade audience, does a good job at diving deep into the challenges and problems that children with disabilities like speech impediments , especially stutters , can face. This includes stigma from even their own parents, with Lily's mother getting impatient with Lily's stutter and wanting to hide it from the world by not telling anyone about it, and her dad who also avoids addressing the problem with Lily, only talking about how awful it is behind her back. Fortunately though they both redeem themselves and have an increased understanding by the end of the book, which is good as I hated Lily's mum at first stigmatising Lily's stutter the way she did and getting impatient with her, but she does genuinely redeem herself. To be honest I felt more annoyed at the dad and the way he was portrayed as being a good parent an...