![]() ![]() However, that is not necessarily a bad thing. The adventures of the children in the country still carry the same ring of practicality and reality that the first book has. ![]() As an adult reviewer of children’s books, I found this jarring however I don’t believe that children reading the book get as fixated on the past details as much as an adult might. Without missing a beat, these four very street-savvy children are now quite at home roaming the forest, following the brook where it went, building tree houses and never missing the city life that was so much a part of the first book, The Saturdays. The second in the four-book collection about the Melendy family, Four-Story Mistake follows the four children and their father as they move from New York City to an old house in the country. “ Wasn’t it a miracle to live in the country in spring? And to have a wonderful family that she was crazy about, and a house with a secrect room and a cupola, and to be eleven and a half years old, and very good at riding a bicycle?” ![]()
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