A review by samagader35
The Day I Ran Away by Holly L. Niner

3.0

The illustrations are adorable - 4 stars in that department; however the actual story line was a bit...frustrating for me. I'm not sure the mother should have reinforced the fact that just because things weren't going the way the daughter wanted them to meant she could run away (only to the yard) from her problems. I'm all for teaching independence, but just because she ran off didn't mean her problems vanished. Her purple shirt was still dirty, her favorite cereal still gone, and the once clean white shirt is still covered in purple marker. All she really learned was that if she doesn't like how things are going and pitches a fit then she can run outside and hide in her tent and her mom will bring her cookies and still make her favorite dinner.