One Potato Review

“Charlie knows how to be ready. And Charlie likes to be ready,” repeats Viorst while this lonely little worrywart prepares for every eventuality – lions getting loose, mermaids dragging him out to sea, a bossy, mean babysitter “who won’t read him storybooks,” and nothing left to eat in the house except old dirty socks. Charlie’s solutions, in no particular order: making a hundred and seventeen peanut butter sandwiches, packing a parachute, and wearing a cape and a fierce black mask – wait, that doesn’t sound like a fatalist’s burden; in fact, it feels downright heroic.