Charlotte's+Story

Once in a Blue Moon

Last summer, Janet was visiting her great aunt on her farm in the Hickory Mountains. She didn't want to go but her parents made her. She would rather have gone to New York with her best friend, Susannah, but her parents said she had to go visit Aunty Carol, so off she went. It was really boring. She didn't have anything to do on the farm except help out with the animals, and Janet didn't really like animals much, especially cows, which she thought were disgusting, ugly animals. She didn't even like to drink their milk. But one day something amazing happened. Janet was out on a walk through the wood near her aunt's farm and she heard a strange noise. She whirled around and saw a baby deer walking through the trees behind her. It was so cute, and Janet held her breath and hid behind a tree and watched it for a while. Soon its mother came along after it. Janet walked back to her aunt's house with a new thoughtfulness. This chance meeting changed her ideas about animals and she started to get interested in the animals on her aunt's farm.

SUSANNAH: I like this story about Janet's change of heart as I like the idea that somebody can change their attitude when something amazing happens to them. I would like to read more descriptions of the farm, the characters, and the events.

LUKE: I thought the bit about how Janet doesn't like cows was really funny. But I didn't get the title. Could you maybe make it more obvious how the title connects to the story?