Since her mother is unavailable while being treated for an illness,
Tansy is required to report to a new babysitter, the mysterious
Miss Stella who lives in apartment 405. Behind these doors, Miss
Stella conducts a full, rich, and rather unusual life.
Tansy is a real character: the kind of fun and feisty little girl
our daughters frequently are. Tansy is working her way toward
understanding complex problems, including her mother's illness, a
classmate's life-threatening allergy, and her own complicated
emotions.
Peterson's prose is elegant, her language interesting. She gets
inside a child's quirky head, yet never talks down to the reader.
Highly recommended: a four wine-gum rating. (Why wine gums? Read
the book to find out!)
I look forward to more work from this fine author.