Today, Maybe
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Publisher Description
Today, Maybe is a story about a little girl who is waiting for someone, a friend. She doesn't yet know who it will be.
In a series of surprising and humorous encounters, several well-known characters of children's literature arrive at her door. But none of them are the one she is waiting for, and she graciously sends them all away. With her bird to keep her company and hope filling her heart, weeks and then months pass as she waits and waits. When there is a scratch at the door one night, certainty fills the little girl's heart, and she opens the door to discover true friendship is indeed worth waiting for.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this original combination of traditional fairy tale elements, a girl who lives alone in the forest waits for someone (who, even she's not sure) that she is convinced will appear. "Today, maybe he'll come," she tells her bird. Visited by a cast of fairy tale characters thieves, a wolf, a witch the girl stands her ground: "You can't change me into an elephant," she tells the witch, "because the person I'm waiting for won't recognize me." When a prince shows up, readers will think, Surely, he's the one! but he isn't. "The prince thought the little girl was so perfect he wanted to marry her. The little girl had to explain that would be impossible." Grimard's watercolor and gouache spreads teeter on the edge of syrupy the girl's golden hair, bee-stung lips, and moody expression don't convey her strong personality but the artist's skillful use of space for bold closeups give the book persuasive power. Whether readers agree that the special someone is worth it (he's a bear), Demers's tale has a confidential, knowing air that some readers will like very much. Ages 4 8.
