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Synopsis
Although she sees them safely to the cellar, Mama has to leave Lucille and Natt and go help Mr. Lyle, an elderly neighbor. "Don't open this door," she tells them, "until I come back with Mr. Lyle." But Mama doesn't come back, and Lucille must comfort Natt throughout the terrifying -- if familiar -- experience. From the opening scene, in which the children are enjoying their porch swing on a bright spring day, to the closing scene, in which Mama and Mr. Lyle are snugly seated with them on the now-broken swing amid devastation, Darleen Bailey Beard is saying in reassuring text and Nancy Carpenter in warm, impressionistic pictures that twisters are natural -- and not always disasters.
Riverbank Review - Mary Lou Burket
One can enjoy Twister purely for its reassuring story and its realistic pictures...the pictures of the children, with their lively and expressive hands and feet, are especially fine. But if a reader grasps a theme along the way...the strength of children to get through a brief yet very frightening incident, connections that last when other connections are severed...so much the better.