The Table Where Rich People Sit

Book Review:

The Table Where Rich People Sit is a wonderful Southwest children's book that portrays the importance of family and values. The illustrations are beautiful and they feature the Sonoran Desert. The story begins with a family that meets at their old homemade kitchen table as a request of their daughter. She wants to discuss the issue of money. Mountain girl feels as though her parents need to find real jobs like other children's parents have in her class at school. Her parents choose to work outside in nature instead of inside at professions that are more typical. She does not understand why she wears old clothes and why they do not have the material objects that others enjoy. Mountain girl and her family decide to make a list of all their possessions. She soon discovers just how wealthy her family is when she realizes that outdoor beauty and nature can be more valuable than money.

 

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