All About Sam

This story hands the narration to Sam, the younger brother of Anastasia Krupnik, so readers finally see the world from his side. It follows him from the hospital where he was born, through the stubborn toddler years, and into his first weeks at nursery school. Things rarely turn out the way the grownups around him assume. His very first words in the delivery room come out as a wail, and his reasons for flushing his sister's goldfish make perfect sense to him even though nobody else agrees.

Along the way Sam runs into one challenge after another, from toilet training and a family move to starting school. He tackles each one with a mix of humor, frankness, and a childlike logic that often gets him into trouble and sometimes helps him see more clearly than the adults do.