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Toaff's Way

by Cynthia Voigt

Other authors: Sydney Hanson (Illustrator)

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Juvenile Fiction. Juvenile Literature. HTML:Meet Toaff: a lovable squirrel, and new standout character, searching for a place to call home in this gem of a story by a Newbery Medal-winning author.
Toaff is a small squirrel full of big questions. Why must I stay away from the human's house? Why shouldn't I go beyond the pine trees? Why do we fight with the red squirrels across the drive? His sister shrugsâ??that's just the way things are. His brother bulliesâ??because I said so. And the older squirrels scoldâ??too many questions! Can Toaff really be the only one to wonder why?
When a winter storm separates him from his family, Toaff must make his own way in the world. It's a world filled with dangerâ??from foxes and hawks and cats to cars and chainsaws. But also filled with delightâ??the dizzying scent of apple blossoms, the silvery sound of singing, the joy of leaping so far you're practically flying. Over the course of a year, Toaff will move into (and out of) many different dreys and dens, make some very surprising friends (and a few enemies), and begin to answer his biggest questionsâ??what do I believe and where do I belong?
Master storyteller Cynthia Voigt offers readers a rich and rewarding story of finding one's
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Voigt has a talent, but it does not feel suited for kids books. She has a great arsenal of onomatopoeia and world-building, but all of it is terribly slow. This can be said for Angus and Sadie as well as Toaff's Way. These books have a lot of nothing that happens. Somehow page after page is full of nothing, clunky dialogue with a ton of sounds, long sentences to cover time passing, but nothing actually happening.

Chapters have maybe one event, things like a tree falls over, so the squirrel living in the tree continues to live in the tree. Nothing changes besides he's living in a tree which has fallen over. Another has snow, the snow changes nothing, they treat it as snow and it exists. Other chapters have him meet a squirrel, it stays for all of three pages, and leaves, changing nothing.

Toaff does not progress in the story so much as he changes location and has conversations with others. A perfect example besides the red squirrel would be the fox chapter. It is treated as Toaff fights a fox when really he makes noises from a branch and then congratulates himself for fighting a fox. Nothing was actually fought but it's held as he did so.

I can't see many kids fully enjoying this book unless it's read to them, on paper it's bland, with someone to speak all the sounds in a classroom or at bed time it could be entertaining, or annoying, there are a LOT of sounds, some of them repeat up to seven times in a scene and most of them are used dozens of times through the book.

2.5 stars, Voigt needs to write some adult fiction, her style would fit there more than it does with children. ( )
  Yolken | Feb 14, 2020 |
Please see my review over on my children's literature and education blog: https://www.readingrumpus.com/2018/08/toaffs-way-by-cynthia-voigt.html ( )
  Tasses | Aug 7, 2018 |
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Juvenile Fiction. Juvenile Literature. HTML:Meet Toaff: a lovable squirrel, and new standout character, searching for a place to call home in this gem of a story by a Newbery Medal-winning author.
Toaff is a small squirrel full of big questions. Why must I stay away from the human's house? Why shouldn't I go beyond the pine trees? Why do we fight with the red squirrels across the drive? His sister shrugsâ??that's just the way things are. His brother bulliesâ??because I said so. And the older squirrels scoldâ??too many questions! Can Toaff really be the only one to wonder why?
When a winter storm separates him from his family, Toaff must make his own way in the world. It's a world filled with dangerâ??from foxes and hawks and cats to cars and chainsaws. But also filled with delightâ??the dizzying scent of apple blossoms, the silvery sound of singing, the joy of leaping so far you're practically flying. Over the course of a year, Toaff will move into (and out of) many different dreys and dens, make some very surprising friends (and a few enemies), and begin to answer his biggest questionsâ??what do I believe and where do I belong?
Master storyteller Cynthia Voigt offers readers a rich and rewarding story of finding one's

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