Noni-Ayanna Gobern-Roach
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Noni, busy creating Barbie-Doll Land, is upset when her older sister, Adventitious, comes into the room and accidentally bumbles through the scene, destroying everything Noni so painstakingly created. Annoyed, Noni tries to convince her sister to make her own house scene away from where Noni has her dolls and things, but Mom intervenes and scolds Noni, saying the girls will play together nicely or Noni will have to put all the Barbie things away.
Noni knows better than to talk back to her mother, so the girls decide to dress the dolls. That’s when Noni realizes Barbie is missing one of Noni’s favorite doll earrings . . . and maybe Adventitious swallowed it. She angrily declares that, if Adventitious swallowed it, "she will choke on it in the night and die.”
Adventitious runs out of the room in tears.
What will happen next?
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Every reader who has ever had a dispute with a sibling or found themselves monitoring their children’s squabbles will appreciate Noni’s frustration, her not-meant-to-be-mean meanness, and the too-hilarious-for-words denouement that brings the story to a close. It may be a short story, but it should find its way to every reader’s must-read list.
Highly recommended.… (meer)