Rosie S Special Gift

In this modern-day re-telling of Aesop's fable 'The Goose Who Laid the Golden Eggs,' Rosie receives a magic machine that dispenses one piece of candy a day, but things go wrong when she and her brother get greedy. Includes original fable, compare and contrast questions, and short bio of Aesop.

Rosie's gift leads her family and their friends through their normal lives, relationships and daily dramas, from the 1960s to 1980s. But what use is her "e;gift"e;, if it cannot save the ones she loves? When a dead body is found buried in the grounds of a Tuscan villa, where her parents stayed on holiday, her father becomes the main suspect. Can Gina, a young Italian policewoman help Rosie to find out what really happened?

Rosie Flores is returning to her home in Santa Rosita for the summer. She has a problem--she is in love with Jon, a doctor who is temporarily working at the town medical clinic. The problem is that Jon is an "outsider," a "gringo," and of a different religion, so without a miracle, there is no chance that her family will ever accept him.

Rosie's special present worries about being a present, and worries about being special enough! It's Rosie's big day, and this little kitten ponders, worries and explores the house, eager to dress himself up to meet Rosie with disastrous consequences! Funny, sweet and heartwarming - a tail to curl up with...