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Slowpoke

In a family full of folks who are expert multi-taskers, always in a rush, Fiona is a slowpoke who likes to take her time.  One day when her dawdling has made her miss the bus one too many times, her mother insists she attend Speed School.  Then Fiona finds herself multi-tasking with the best of them, rushing through life with her head spinning so much one day it gets stuck.  When she can’t take it anymore she makes a deal with her parents that she will be on time if the rest of the family will attend Slow School, where she teaches them to slow down and taste their food and notice flowers.  It’s a simple easy-reader book with a nice message we can all relate to on one end of the story or the other.  I just wish the internal illustrations were in color.