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Squashed in the Middle.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)
SQUASHED IN THE MIDDLE ELIZABETH WINTHROP, ILLUS. BY PAT CUMMINGS. Holt, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 0-8050-6497-4
The emotional vividness and ultra-contemporary vibe of Cummings's (Angel Baby) mixed-media paintings make this an especially sympathetic treatment of middle-child angst. Daisy not only feels "squashed right in the middle of her noisy family," but also unheard. As Winthrop (Dumpy La Rue) eloquently puts it, her parents and siblings "talked to Daisy, they talked about Daisy and they talked right over Daisy's head. But when Daisy talked, nobody ever listened." When the family tries to put the kibosh on Daisy's first sleepover at a friend's house ("'She'll come home …
