A review by engpunk77
Boxes for Katje by Candace Fleming

3.0

The feel-good aspects of this story are the vividly illustrated acts of kindness, sharing, community, and goodwill, but I couldn't enjoy it until I read that it was a true story, at the very end. Perhaps had I known that from the start, I could've loved it. My stomach was in knots with the realization that a girl, family, then community in Indiana was actually supporting completely a girl, family, and then an entire neighborhood in Holland. Basically, it's showing that the entire neighborhood would not have survived without the shipments of goods from Indiana, and that didn't seem right to me. Now that I know that this happened, and it was only one year, I feel better, but the story gave me too many complicated and rather unpleasant feelings.